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| Date: | 10 1852 |
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| Description: | Landscape view of the river looking downstream from Fort Snelling, Minnesota Territory. An expanse of placid river water fills the center of the drawing an... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | This house, built on a hill close to the Milwaukee River, was the only one in the city as late as 1840. The owner of the house, Martin [Matthias] Stein, a ... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Ranzer's prosperous farm was hewn out of the forest rather than the prairie. This was "of course more difficult" and needed hired help to fell and burn the... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | The maple and hickory forests in the old northwest were often plagued with fires during the summer months. Hölzlhuber, on a return journey from Niagara Fal... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | The fertillity of the soil in America and Canada, especially in Wisconsin, was the attraction for most European immigrants. The vast amount of land and the... |
| Date: | 08 1852 |
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| Description: | Pencil drawing of a dirt road through the woods with added white highlights. A horse-drawn wagon with two passengers moves down the road in the distance, ... |
| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | Landscape featuring a rural city center with a prominent courthouse surrounded by fields and woods. Rolling erosion-softened mountains rise in the backgro... |
| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | Rural landscape with farm buildings seen from across a field and framed by trees. |
| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | Devil's Lake from shore flanked by steep tree-covered hillsides. A small solitary rowboat floats near the distant shore. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | This map shows city wards, streets, block and lot numbers, cemeteries, buildings, landownership, forests, railroads, a race course, quarries, and orchards.... |
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