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Farm of Alex Smith

Date: 1875
Description: View from a distance of a farm in a valley owned by Alex(ander?) Smith. There is a wooden fence in the foreground surrounding the farm.
Drawing

Queen's Bluff below Trempealeau

Date: 1872
Description: The sidewheel packet, Red Wing, in the Mississippi River near Queen's Bluff below Trempealeau, Wisconsin.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of the City of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

Date: 1874
Description: Bird's-eye map of Chippewa Falls.
Map or Atlas

Swiss Colony of New Glarus, Wisconsin

Date: 1860
Description: Bird's-eye drawing of New Glarus.
Photograph

Wisconsin Central Freight Cars

Date: 05 05 1897
Description: Elevated view of Wisconsin Central freight cars in a rural storage yard near Manitowoc.
Photograph

Aerial View of Town along Mississippi River

Date: 1875
Description: Aerial view of Alma along Mississippi River, with bluffs along the horizon.
Photograph

Fort Crawford

Date: 1864
Description: Fort Crawford was decommissioned in 1856, having outlived its usefulness as a frontier post. During the Civil War, however, it functioned as a military ho...
Photograph

Steamship "Thomas Powell"

Date: 1863
Description: View from shoreline of the side-wheel steamship "Thomas Powell," probably in southern waters. Industrial buildings are in the background.
Photograph

View of the Bluffs

Date: 1895
Description: Elevated view from bluffs, looking north-east toward Lake City, Minnesota and Lake Pepin of the Mississippi River.
Photograph

Site of Perrot's Wintering Post

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view over trees towards the Mississippi River. 1885-90. Across the field in the foreground are people with an American flag standing along the sho...

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