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| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | A rare photograph of U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Howard rowing a boat on the Fox River. Fort Howard, built in 1816, was the first in the chain of ... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | View of Michipicoton, Ontario on Lake Superior showing a village with log structures and tents. Fishing nets are drying on poles. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Pic Island on the north shore of Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Chippewa Indian Sugar Camp. Plate 61, preceding p. 199, vol. I, The Indian tribes of the United States: their history antiquities, customs, religion, ar... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Pictographs on Lake Superior and Carp River, Mich. Six rows of animals, canoes, birds, human figures, and other symbols. |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Madison over rooftop and across lake with sailboats and steamers. A group of people are standing on a viewing platform on the roof in th... |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the Porcupine Mountains on Lake Superior. A deer is standing in the lake drinking water. A man is on the rock ledge above the shoreline and is a... |
| Date: | 11 20 1858 |
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| Description: | Panoramic sketch of the first Wisconsin State Fair held in Madison with large tents, fire companies, side-shows, and performances that drew thousands of vi... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | The main deck of The Tuisco, showing groups of immigrant men, women, and a child in brightly colored clothing, conversing while standing below a ful... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | View of five soldiers rowing in a boat, beside a dock, with another soldier standing on the dock. The fort is in the background, complete with the fortifie... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Several men rowing in a boat near Fort Howard that has an American Flag, barracks, and various related military buildings enclosed behind a wall. |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the fairgrounds in Milwaukee, the year when Abraham Lincoln spoke. The fairgrounds were located at the Brockway Grounds near Twelfth and S... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | An engraving depicting a formally dressed family gathered around a Christmas tree, which is lit with candles. |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card with young girl holding a doll. She and her doll are both wearing a dress. The girl has her hair in a snood. A verse is below that rea... |
| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | Devil's Lake from shore flanked by steep tree-covered hillsides. A small solitary rowboat floats near the distant shore. |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | This bird's-eye-view map of Madison is looking north across Lake Monona. The map features two women and two men on a lookout on top of a building in the fo... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Illustration of two men using a Hussey Grain Cutter in a field. One man is riding on the grain cutter, and another man is riding on one of two horses pulli... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of Lydia Remsen Draper sitting in a chair, (Mrs. Lyman C. Draper, Dr. Draper's first wife) and adopted daughter Helen, (died 1864... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Engraved print of four men and a dog in a boat on Lake Winnebago. Two of the men are in the center of the boat holding hunting rifles, while one man is sta... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across water towards Fort Howard. In the foreground is a man standing on a pier, and in the water nearby are five men rowing in a boat. Capti... |
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