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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...
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Pictured Rocks, Lake Superior

Date: 1821
Description: Engraving of the Pictured Rocks shoreline viewed from Lake Superior.
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Mass of Native Copper on the Ontonagon River

Date: 1821
Description: Engraving depicting the Schoolcraft expedition crossing the Ontonagon River to investigate a copper boulder.
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Herd of Bison, on the Upper Missouri

Date: 1832
Description: Herd of Bison, on the Upper Missouri River.
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Man on Visor Ledge

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Description: Visor Ledge, man sitting on edge.
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Big Bear in Diamond Grotto

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Description: Big Bear (a Ho-Chunk Man) sitting on the ground in front of Diamond Grotto.
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Skillet Creek Dam

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Description: Elevated view of dam at Pewit's Nest on Skillet Creek.
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Hornet's Nest

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Description: West side of Hornet's Nest. One man sitting on top edge, one sitting at right under overhang, three in background below overhang.
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Pewit's Nest

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Description: Man and woman sitting on logs near the water line at Pewit's Nest. Wooden debris on ground and attached to rock face. A small waterfall is in background.
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Rood's Glen

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Description: Rood's Glen, looking east.
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Cold Water Canyon

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Description: Cold Water Canyon viewed from near the Jug.
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Pillar Rock, Fort Danger

Date: 07 1873
Description: Adams and Juneau Counties. Pillar Rock, Fort Danger. There is a man with an 8 x 10 camera in the foreground.
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Ink Stand and Sugar Bowl

Date: 10 1889
Description: South side of Ink Stand and Sugar Bowl. Hattie and John Bennett in the boat; Nellie Bennett seated beneath the tree.
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Flute Ceremony

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Description: Ho-Chunk flute ceremony or prayer for rain. Four Ho-Chunk kneel in a square. A flute player and a man with a rattle stand behind on a low, round stone wall...
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Waterfall at Phantom Chamber

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Description: View down towards waterfall in Phantom Chamber at Witches' Gulch.
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Blackhawk Island

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Description: Looking upstream towards Blackhawk Island from opposite Ravine Bridge. There is a rowboat at the rocky shoreline.
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Cold Water Canyon

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Description: Depths of Cold Water Canyon.
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Hawk's Bill

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Description: Slightly elevated view over water towards Hawk's Beak.
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Cleopatra's Needle

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Description: Devil's Lake Vicinity, Cleopatra's Needle. A man is standing on top of the needle.
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Opposite Steamboat Rock

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Description: Two men near shoreline in a canoe opposite Steamboat Rock.

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