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Painting

Bad Axe Battleground

Date: 1856
Description: This landscape painting by Samuel Marsden Brookes and Thomas H. Stevenson depicts a broad view of the confluence of Bad Axe and Mississippi Rivers; site of...
Drawing

First Fort Crawford

Date: 10 1829
Description: Fort Crawford as drawn by Seth Eastman. People are in a canoe in the river in the foreground. Across the river is the fort, other buildings around the fort...
Painting

Battle of Bad Axe

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Description: Painting by Cal Peters depicting the battle of Bad Axe, also known as the Bad Axe massacre, at the Mississippi River on August 2, 1832.
Painting

Fort Crawford

Date: 1840
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...
Drawing

Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1830

Date: 1848
Description: The first Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chien, with the Mississippi River in the foreground. Although dated 1830, this scene was actually painted by Henry Le...
Drawing

Fort Cairo

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Description: Drawing of a section of a completed part of Fort Cairo facing the confluen [sic] of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.
Drawing

Building Pontoons to Mount Mortars

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Description: "Building rafts, or pontoons, upon which to mount huge mortars — for use on the river. Scene at St. Louis." Men are building on a pontoon with lumber. Ther...
Drawing

Sketch of Battle of Island #10

Date: 04 1862
Description: Notes include: Sketch of Battle of Island #10. Sketch of Fort Pillow Tennessee. Gen. Pope had command of the land troops.
Drawing

Hamburg Landing

Date: 05 1862
Description: "Hamburg Landing, 4 miles below Pittsburg Landing, Commisary [sic] Depot of Gen. Hallek's Army." An encampment with soldiers along the river with a ...
Drawing

The Gunboats at Number 10

Date: 1862
Description: An image from a sketchbook of "The Gunboats at No. 10 — Eve of Arrival before the I'sld". The drawing appears to be from the deck of a ship showing several...
Drawing

Preliminary Sketch — Hamburg Landing

Date: 1862
Description: This is the preliminary sketch for "Hamburg Landing, 4 miles below Pittsburg Landing, Commisary [sic] Depot of Gen. Hallek's Army." Shows an encampm...
Painting

Fort Crawford

Date: 1840
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.
Map or Atlas

Fort Crawford

Date: 1821
Description: A topographical view of the site of Fort Crawford.
Drawing

Fort Crawford

Date: 1829
Description: Fort Crawford, from a sketchbook attributed to Seth Eastman, 1808-1875. A graduate of West Point, Eastman briefly served at Fort Crawford, 1829-1839.
Print

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.
Print

Fort Armstong

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

The Carondelet

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Description: A woodcut of "The Carondelet, leading Logan's supply fleet, running the blockade at Vicksburg."
Print

Battle of Grand Gulf

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

Union Steamship

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Description: A Union ironclad steamship on the Mississippi River.
Photograph

The "Prairie Bird"

Date: 1864
Description: Union gunboat "Prairie Bird," a small rear-wheel steamship.

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