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Visitors to the Iron Ridge Mine

Date: 1900
Description: Visitors, dressed in their Sunday best, contrast with the rough garb of the miners. Left to right, miners were: Charles Kanass, Robert "Beaver" Smith (hold...
Photograph

Canyon Trail, Mirror Lake

Date: 1903
Description: Horse-drawn vehicle on Canyon Trail at Mirror Lake.
Print

Buffalo Hunt, Chasing Back

Date: 1844
Description: Buffalo chasing hunter with rifle on horseback (Plate 12).

"The wounded and chafed bull often turns upon its assailant, and runs him back, over the whole...

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Men on Horseback

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Description: Men or cowboys on horseback at the Indian Warm Springs Agency.
Photograph

Cassville Brewery

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of the brewery dwarfed by the overhead bluffs. The brewery was built by William Schmitz. George Scheibl ran the brewery from 1899 until his d...
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Men on Horseback

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Description: A group of men on horseback, possibly William Arthur Jones and others.
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Family and Wagon

Date: 1900
Description: A family of seven, including a baby, posing on and around a wagon with bales of hay in rocky terrain. There are steep hills behind them.
Painting

Residence of Mr. Martin Lutscher

Date: 1875
Description: Seifert's watercolor is fairly large, measuring 27" wide by 21" high, and provides a detailed depiction of a nineteenth century Wisconsin farm. The small s...
Photograph

Lost Canyon

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Description: Elevated view of a cart of tourists in Lost Canyon.
Photograph

Interstate Dedication

Date: 10 06 1961
Description: Dedication ceremony for a section of Interstate Highway I-90 near the Wisconsin Dells, with a group of Native Americans watching from above. A Dells Fargo ...
Photograph

Cañon de Chelly — Navaho

Date: 1904
Description: The original caption reads: "A wonderfully scenic spot is this in northeastern Arizona, in the heart of the Navaho country — one of their strongholds, in f...
Painting

Residence of Mr. Daniel Lewis

Date: 1881
Description: Watercolor painting of farm and farmhouse, residence of Mr. Daniel Lewis.
Book or Pamphlet

Glacier National Park

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Description: View of Glacier National Park, including people, horses, and tipis.
Photograph

Horseback Riding Meet

Date: 10 06 1963
Description: Men and women with horse trailers gather beneath Castle Rock. The group gathered there for a western-style horseback riding meet.
Photograph

Deer Creek

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Description: Elevated view of a farmer using a horse-drawn plow in a field near Deer Creek in Spring Valley, Minnesota. Tall rock formation can be seen on the edge of t...
Photograph

Carriage Near Salt Pool

Date: 1910
Description: View across salt pool toward a horse-drawn carriage near the far side of the pool, with a rock formation in the distance.
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Valley Scene

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Description: Valley view from Skyline Drive. Four people on horseback look down upon the farmland of the valley from a rocky ledge.
Photograph

Saloon

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Description: View across road of a man with his horse outside the Bar Room. There is a large circus advertisement with elephants and lions painted on the wall of the bu...
Painting

Burch-Bolden Family Homestead

Date: 1906
Description: This oil painting is a fine weave cotton support (perhaps a bed sheet). It is signed and dated (1906) and depicts an early twentieth century rural southwes...
Postcard

Dress Parade

Date: 07 30 1910
Description: Photographic postcard of elevated view of soldiers during a dress parade. Some soldiers are on horseback, but most are on foot. There is a musical band in ...

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