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| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Portrait of North American Indians (Plate 1). "The group in Plate No. 1 is composed of three Portraits from my collection, representing three different t... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Indians with ball-playing equipment, believed to be used in the game of Lacrosse. (Plate 21) "In devoting a few of the last pages of this work to some o... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | A portrayal of the effects of contact with whites on the Assiniboine chief, Wi-Jun-Jon. (Plate 25). "In offering this illustration to the reader, I am re... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of William Horlick (1846-1936), by Harold A. Stewart. |
| Date: | 03 10 1909 |
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| Description: | Drawing of James Horlick (1844-1921), was done by Sir Leslie Matthew Ward (1851-1922). Under the pseudonym "Spy," Ward contributed portraits of famous peop... |
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| Description: | Sign above the main entrance of the Oshkosh Brewing Company, which uses an illustration of Chief Oshkosh as part of its logo. The sign was installed there... |
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| Description: | Mr. Bearskin, a medicine man, at Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, first cur... |
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| Description: | Engraving of John Adams with an inset of "M. Tallyrand Receiving the American Envoys, 1797." |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Frontispiece to Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien (1655). |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Depicts Indians encountered on the Barlowe and Amadas Expedition in Virgina, ca. 1584. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored photograph depicting a Native American mother holding her child in a cradleboard. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans pre... |
| Date: | 1827 |
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| Description: | Lithographic portrait of Key-Way-No-Wut or Going Cloud, the war chief of the Lac du Flambeau band of Chippewa smoking a pipe. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored postcard depicting Ojibwa Chief Obtossaway. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, the first cur... |
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| Description: | A portrait of an elderly Native American man identified only as "the oldest Indian, Solon Springs, Wisconsin." This image is part of an exhibit about Nati... |
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| Description: | Portrait engraving of James Madison with a vignette of "The Burning of the Capitol by the British, 1814." |
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| Description: | Portrait engraving of a mature James Madison, from a painting by Durand. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Portrait engraving of James Monroe from a painting by Alonzo Chappel. |
| Date: | 1838 |
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| Description: | Wau-Baun-See, a hand-colored lithographic portrait of a Potawatamie Indian. This image from McKenney & Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes," (1849-1850) ... |
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