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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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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...
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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Ross Peak

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Description: A view of Ross Peak and wheat fields below, 10 miles from Bozeman. Caption reads: "Ross Peak, 10 miles from Bozeman."
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View of Mountains

Date: 1910
Description: A distant view of the Bartlett and Kearsarge Mountains. A field and trees are in the foreground, and a white house is nestled in the forest further up the ...
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Tree-lined Dirt Road

Date: 1915
Description: A view looking down a tree-lined dirt highway, with an open field on one side and a mountain in the distance.
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Hotel in Sugar Hill

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Description: Elevated view of a large hotel located in a broad valley near Mount Lafayette and Cannon Mountain.
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Aerial View of the White Mountains and Mount Washington

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Description: An aerial view of the White Mountains and Mount Washington, including a winding road.
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Mountain Lookout Tower

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Description: View of a winding path with metal handrails leading up the side of a mountain to a fire lookout tower.
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Shelter on Rock Overhang

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Description: A small shelter built on overhanging rock in the mountains.
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Elephant Butte Dam

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Description: The site of Elephant Butte Dam prior to construction of the dam showing desert hills and the Rio Grande River. Construction was completed in 1916, and at t...
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Riverboat on Copper River

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Description: View of a riverboat on Copper River with the Chugach Mountains rising in the background.
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Big Horn Mountains

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Description: View from hill of the Big Horn Mountains near Buffalo.
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The Spanish Peaks

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Description: A view of the Spanish Peaks from the Bozeman vicinity. Caption reads: "Spanish Peaks Near Bozeman Montana."
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Steamboat and Miles Glacier

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Description: Miles Glacier and a steamboat on the Copper River.

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