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Indian Taking Aim

Date: 1840
Description: Photograph of a drawing of an Indian aiming his bow and arrow, with one foot standing on an earlier kill.
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Wooden Well in Dekorra

Date: 1850
Description: Black and white ink drawing of an old wooden well.
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Wilkins 45: Bear Valley

Date: 07 31 1849
Description: Bear Valley in Utah; sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California on the Overland Trail (also known as the Oregon Trail).

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Wilkins 47: Bear River

Date: 08 01 1849
Description: Bear Valley in Utah; sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California on the Overland Trail (also known as the Oregon Trail). Wilki...
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Vacation Party on Seashore Cliff Stairwalk

Date: 1900
Description: View of a vacation party on a cliff stairway overlooking a seashore. Several men and women in formal dress walk down the stairway. Heavily retouched image.
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Hayward Indian Boarding School

Date: 1900
Description: Perspective drawing of the buildings at the Hayward Indian School. There is a man in a boat in the right foreground and an empty boat in the left foregroun...
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Stone and Log Causeway

Date: 1948
Description: Drawing depicting a horse-drawn carriage crossing a stone and log causeway built across a river.
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Residence of John Kinzie, Esq. (The First House Built in Chicago)

Date: 1856
Description: Lithograhic view of the residence of John Kinzie on the bank of the Chicago River at the mouth of Lake Michigan. The residence consists of a house with a f...
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Opening Day Fishing Season - Fish Tales

Date: 1987
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing titled, "Fish Tales (The Truth is Irrelevant, A Lie Well Told Lives Forever)." Sid adds the following words to describe the...
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Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1969
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a cricket or grasshopper serenading a large trout swimming underwater. The insect is playing a violin, while standing on...
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Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1970
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a view across water towards a fisherman wearing waders and holding his spinning rod and creel is crouching on his hands...
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Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1982
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing. This drawing appeared in the Capitol Times on April 30, 1982 with the caption: "The opening of the state fishing se...
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Scuba Diver Fishing Underwater

Date: 08 1963
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a man wearing diving gear is fishing underwater. He is sitting on the lake bed among weeds with a worm on the end of his...
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Waterfall at The House on the Rock

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Description: Black pen ink drawing on tracing paper of the exterior water feature. There are two rows of square glass windows on the Mill House, and tree trunks, shrubs...

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