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| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | A rare photograph of U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Howard rowing a boat on the Fox River. Fort Howard, built in 1816, was the first in the chain of ... |
| Date: | 08 28 1833 |
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| Description: | Indians fighting at Fort Mackenzie (Montana). |
| Date: | 09 1825 |
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| Description: | Treaty at Prairie du Chien, with Fort Crawford seen in the background. This treaty negotiated between Governor William Clark and Governor Lewis Cass and ov... |
| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | This hand-colored lithograph of the second Fort Howard, with Indians canoeing on the Fox River, shows the hospital built 1834-1835 outside the stockade on ... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Battery C, 1st Regiment, Wisconsin Heavy Artillery at Fort Sherman, shown here after the battles of Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain.... |
| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | Little Lake Butte Des Morts just north of Lake Winnebago where Governor Lewis Cass of Michigan, and Thomas McKenney, head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Nine men arrive at Fort William by canoe. Fort William, also called Kaministiguia, was the Hudson's Bay fur trading post. Men are standing along the opposi... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting construction of the first Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1816. In the painting, several o... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting the surrender of Black Hawk at Fort Crawford in 1832. |
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| Description: | Diorama in the Milwaukee Public Museum depicting Black Hawk's surrender on August 27, 1832 at Fort Crawford in Prairie du Chien. |
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| Description: | A French trench. Captioned: "Notice the workmanship on this French trench - and imagine the water in the springtime." |
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| Description: | Dirt stairs through the trench wall. Captioned: "Passages up which troops rush for an attack." |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting of the second Fort Crawford, built 1829-1835. Two men are in a boat in the water in the foreground. The first Fort Crawford at Pra... |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Horse racing of Sioux Indians near Fort Pierre. Three Sioux Indians on horseback in foreground and Fort Pierre in distance. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Fort Union, on the Missouri River in Montana. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Fort Clark, on the Missouri River, February 1834. |
| Date: | 06 19 1912 |
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| Description: | A group of people posing in front of the Camp Randall Memorial Arch during its dedication. |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Engraving made after a painting by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (died 1588) during the Laudonnière Expedition in Florida, ca. 1564. |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Scene from Laudonnière Expedition in Florida, ca. 1567. |
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