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Wisconsin Heavy Artillery at Fort Sherman

Date: 1864
Description: Elevated view of Battery C, 1st Regiment, Wisconsin Heavy Artillery at Fort Sherman, shown here after the battles of Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain....
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Union Army Officers in the Field

Date: 1863
Description: Union army officers. From left are: General U.S. Grant, General Rawlins, General Webster, Colonel Lagow, and Colonel Killyer take a break.
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Horlick Mountains, Antarctica

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Description: Unidentified explorer standing in field of snow with the Horlick Mountains of Antarctica in the background. The Horlick Mountains were named by Admiral Ric...
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Uintah School in Winter

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Description: View across field of the Uintah Agency School behind a fence in winter. Mountains are visible in the background.
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Mountain Scenery

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Description: Mountain scenery at the Warm Springs Agency in Oregon.
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Mountain Scenery

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Description: Mountain scenery at the Warm Springs Agency in Oregon.
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Mt. Jefferson

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Description: Mt. Jefferson taken from the reservation side at the Warm Springs Agency in Oregon.
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Mt. Jefferson Pinnacle

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Description: The pinnacle of Mt. Jefferson above the snow line at the Warm Springs Agency in Oregon.
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St. Mary's Lake

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Description: Upper St. Mary's Lake below the narrows, with the Divide Mountain in the distance.
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Lower Two Medicine Lake

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Description: Lower Two Medicine Lake and Rising Wolf Mountain.
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Mountain Slide

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Description: Men work at a mountain slide at the head gate of the Big Horn Ditch on the Crow Reservation in northeast Wyoming.
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Imperial Hotel Luggage Tag

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Description: Luggage tag for the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan. This label includes a graph rendering of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building, and is thought to ha...
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Officers of the Twenty-First Wisconsin Infantry

Date: 1863
Description: The Twenty-First Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry posing on Lookout Mountain. From right to left: Fred W. Borcherdt of Manitowoc, Wisconsin; acting Adjutant Co...
Map or Atlas

Map of State of Idaho

Date: 1905
Description: Map of state of Idaho. Department of Interior General Land Office.
Book or Pamphlet

Call of the Open Road

Date: 1922
Description: Front and back cover of the Call of the Open Road, an annual publication of the Milwaukee Journal Tour Department based on its regular columns of mo...
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Zermatt, Switzerland

Date: 1895
Description: Houses by a stream in Zermatt, Switzerland. A woman is doing laundry (?) in the foreground.
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Clinton Youth at Highlander Folk School

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Description: Four girls hiking up a mountain as an excursion during the Clinton Youth session at Highlander Folk School. Clinton Youth was a Unitarian work camp from th...
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Blatz Advertisment

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Description: Advertisement for Blatz Private Stock, a "de-alcoholized" beer brewed in Milwaukee during Prohibition. Depicts a couple picnicking near a lake and mountain...
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Portrait of Rabbi Mayer Relles in Swiss Refugee Camp

Date: 06 1944
Description: Portrait of Holocaust survivor Rabbi Mayer Relles during the time he worked in a refugee camp; Rabius, Switzerland.
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P&H 25-Ton Type "N" Bridge Crane

Date: 07 19 1917
Description: Elevated view of Pawling & Harnischfeger 25-ton type "N" bridge with a 5-ton type "A" trolley and a standard bottom block, equipped for exterior use. There...

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