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Fort Armstrong on Rock Island

Date: 1829
Description: Hand-colored lithograph of Fort Armstrong on Rock Island, based on a drawing by Henry Lewis. Foreground shows a tree floating in the water.
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Fort Armstong

Date: 1829
Description: Hand-colored lithograph of Fort Armstrong, based on a drawing by Henry Lewis. Includes boats on the Mississippi River.
Map or Atlas

Plat Map of Prairie Du Chien

Date: 1828
Description: Plat of the Private Claims at Prairie Du Chien.
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Drawing of the Mouth of the Wisconsin River from Pike's Hill

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Description: Drawing of the mouth of the Wisconsin River from a scenic overlook depicting a steamboat in the distance. Print is part of a series collected in Lewis' "Da...
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Drawing of St. Paul's in Menesotah Territorium

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Description: Drawing of St. Paul, Minnesota, depicting a small town on a hillside overlooking the Mississippi River. A Native American sits on a log in the foreground. ...
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Drawing of Savannah, Illinois

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Description: Drawing of Savannah, Illinois, depicting a small town along the shore of the Mississippi River. There is a steamboat in the foreground. Print is part of a ...
Postcard

Fountain City, Wisconsin Shoreline

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Description: View from river of Fountain City's shoreline with bluffs in the background. Caption reads: "Fountain City, Wis."
Book or Pamphlet

"Rambo" and "Musser"

Date: 1903
Description: Drawing of the "Rambo" and "Musser" transporting a log raft on the Mississippi River.
Photograph

Aerial View of Prairie du Chien

Date: 03 28 1949
Description: Aerial view of Prairie du Chien showing the Mississippi River in the background.
Photograph

Wintery View of Mississippi River

Date: 1890
Description: A view from a hill overlooking the town of Alma, on the banks of the Mississippi River, which is frozen. Several churches and residential houses are visibl...
Painting

Marquette and Joliet Discover the Mississippi River

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Description: A painting depicting Marquette and Joliet in a birch bark canoe with two other men during their excursion on the Mississippi River, which they discovered o...
Photograph

St. Anthony's Falls

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Description: Elevated view of St. Anthony's Fall. Caption on back of stereograph reads, "St. Anthony's Falls, Minneapolis, Minn." There is a bridge in the foreground, a...
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Narrative Journal of Travels

Date: 1820
Description: Narrative Journal of Travels from Detroit Northwest through the Great chain of American Lakes to the sources of the Mississippi River in the year 1820. Ill...
Map or Atlas

Bicycle Road Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1896
Description: Section 4 of 12, this bicycle road map features Wisconsin bicycle routes in the counties of Iowa, Grant, and La Fayette.
Map or Atlas

Bicycle Road Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1896
Description: Section 5 of 12, this bicycle road map features Wisconsin bicycle routes in the counties of La Crosse, Monroe, Vernon, Crawford, Richland, Sauk, Juneau, an...
Photograph

Elevated View of Clayton

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Description: An elevated view of the town of Clayton, Iowa, which is nestled in a valley. The Mississippi River can be seen nearby. Caption reads: "Clayton, Iowa, on th...
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Mississippi River

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Description: Elevated view of the winding Mississippi River.
Photograph

Steamboat on Mississippi River

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Description: Elevated view of a steamboat on the Mississippi in the vicinity of Indian Mound Park. A woman sits on the riverbank in the foreground and the river winds t...
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Beef Slough Near Alma

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Description: Lumber raft in the water near the shoreline with two paddle wheel steamboats and a bluff in the distance.
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Battle of Grand Gulf

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Description: A halftone lithograph of the Battle of Grand Gulf, Mississippi.

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