Date: | 1849 |
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Description: | Portrait of Jane Quinney, (born Ashotomay) wife of Austin E. Quinney, chief of the Stockbridge nation, and their daughter, Harriet. |
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: | 1844 |
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Description: | Hunters using rifles to kill buffalo (Plate 11). "This plate represents the familiar mode of procuring meat, practiced by all the voyageurs on the Missou... |
Date: | 1844 |
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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... |
Date: | 1844 |
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Description: | A portrayal of the effects of contact with whites on the Assiniboine chief, Wi-Jun-Jon. (Plate 25). "In offering this illustration to the reader, I am re... |
Date: | 1847 |
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Description: | An artists rendition of the western view of the Thiensville mills from the local tavern. Caption reads: "West View of Thiensville Mills from the Tavern." |
Date: | 1849 |
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Description: | Directions for putting together and operating McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper. Features a woodcut illustration with labeled parts. |
Date: | 1840 |
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Description: | Fort Crawford (the second site, with buildings of 1829-?), on the east bank of the Mississippi River, about 2 miles above the mouth of the Wisconsin River. |
Date: | 1842 |
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Description: | An engraving depicting a woman reprimanding a young woman, while a young man looks in at a window in the background. |
Date: | 1849 |
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Description: | Drawing of two slave catchers pointing guns at two runaway slaves. |
Date: | 1840 |
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Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype. Waist-up portrait of Elsey Ormsbee Bristol. Elsey was born May 27, 1783; married August 1, 1804 at Warwick, Massachusetts to Cha... |
Date: | 1840 |
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Description: | Sod-breaker and five yoke of oxen plowing in front of the “Old Cottage Inn.” In the foreground a boat is on the shoreline. |
Date: | 1845 |
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Description: | Ninth plate daguerreotype of a waist-up portrait of Susan Shriver Meyer Sweeney. Half figure facing directly front, wearing round-rimmed spectacles and whi... |
Date: | 1847 |
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Description: | Sixth-plate ambrotype. Waist-up portrait of James D. Butler, Jr. sitting in a chair. He has his arms crossed over his chest, and is wearing a jacket and a ... |
Date: | 1844 |
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Description: | Blueprint from aperture silhouette of Captain George Myrick (1767-1844) of Nantucket, Mass. He faces left (proper right) and is wearing a top hat and neckt... |
Date: | 1845 |
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Description: | Drawing of Shullsburg. Text at bottom reads: "Smelting lead ore in log furnaces. Scene in Gratiots Grove at Shullsburg, Wis. in 1845-6. Drawn from life. By... |
Date: | 1842 |
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Description: | Portrait of a woman, who is sitting with her left arm resting on a desk or table. She is wearing a jacket, hat, skirt, and pants. According to History o... |
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