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Algerian Soldiers

Date: 1957
Description: Soldiers lined up in the Algerian desert.
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Buffalo Hunt, Chase

Date: 1844
Description: Indians on horseback hunting buffaloes (Plate 6).

"In this Plate, representing a numerous group in motion, and closely pursued by a party of Indians, wit...

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Buffalo Hunt, Chase

Date: 1844
Description: Indians on foot and horseback hunting buffaloes (Plate 7).

"The buffalo is a harmless and timid animal until severely wounded, or closely pursued, when i...

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Buffalo Hunt, On Snow Shoes

Date: 1844
Description: Indians on snowshoes hunting buffaloes immobilized by snow (Plate 15).

"In this plate is illustrated the mode alluded to in the preceding page, of the In...

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Dying Buffalo Bull, in Snow Drift

Date: 1844
Description: Indians on snowshoes hunting buffaloes trapped in snow (Plate 17).

"In this view the reader is introduced to the optimum of dreariness and severity which...

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Battle of Chattanooga, Storming of Missionary Ridge

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Description: The Battle of Chattanooga from the Milwaukee-based American Panoramic Company's cyclorama "The Storming of Missionary Ridge."
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Exterior View of Fort Sumpter

Date: 1866
Description: Exterior of Fort Sumter. A cannon has fallen on the steep shoreline and waves are hitting the rocks.
Plate 58
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Wisconsin National Guard, Light Horse Squadron, Troop A

Date: 1887
Description: Members of the Wisconsin National Guard Light Horse Squadron, Troop A standing in a row. Three women and one man, visitors to Camp Douglas, stand facing th...
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Theatre de la Guerre en Espagne et en Portugal

Date: 1740
Description: Engraved and hand-colored map of the Iberian peninsula as a theater of war during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714). The map is dedicated to Ki...

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