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| Date: | 11 25 1871 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the Peshtigo Fire, showing people seeking refuge in the Peshtigo River. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph illustration on the back cover of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a buffalo gazing down upon men with harvesting m... |
| Date: | 1821 |
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| Description: | Engraving depicting the Schoolcraft expedition crossing the Ontonagon River to investigate a copper boulder. |
| Date: | 1831 |
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| Description: | Drawing of Fort Winnebago (near present-day Portage) that illustrated "Wau-Bun," Juliette Kinzie's memoir of her experiences on the early Wisconsin fronti... |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Steamboat navigating through sunken trees on the Missouri River. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Engraving of Indians on horseback along river with Indian grave on hill in background. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Travellers setting up camp along the Missouri River. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Black and white engraving showing landscape with Fort Pierre and Indian tipis along the Missouri River. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Punka Indians encamped on the banks of the Missouri River and canoeing in river. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Mih-Tutta-Hangkusch, a Mandan village with boats on the river in foreground. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Junction of the Yellowstone River and the Missouri River. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Camp of the Gros Ventres along the upper Missouri River, with white travelers passing by in a boat. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | The Citadel Rock on the Upper Missouri River. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Remarkable Hills on the Upper Missouri River (views 10-29). Various scenes of land formations. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Remarkable hills on the Upper Missouri River (views 1-9). Various landscapes and rock formations. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Herds of bison and elk on the Upper Missouri River. |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Milwaukee looking east toward Lake Michigan from a bluff, long since graded into a slope, at about 6th Street between Wisconsin Avenue an... |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Fort Union, on the Missouri River in Montana. |
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