Date: | 05 27 1849 |
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Description: | The wagon train crossing Laramie Creek in Wyoming. |
Date: | 06 24 1849 |
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Description: | Original wash drawing of Fort Laramie, Wyoming (actually Fort John; see note below). Sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California... |
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: | 03 13 1862 |
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Description: | View down railroad tracks of the gunboat "Cinncinati" guarding Union approaches to Cairo on the Ohio River. |
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Description: | Drawing of a section of a completed part of Fort Cairo facing the confluen [sic] of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. |
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Description: | The "Essex" (New Era) transformed into a gunboat, at anchor. Next to it is a smaller boat. |
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Description: | "Ferry 'New Era' being transformed into a gunboat at St. Louis." Drawing includes workers building with lumber. |
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Description: | "Comisary [sic] Steamer — Pittsburgh Landing." Steamboat on river near Shiloh, Tennessee. |
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Description: | People engaged in various activities along the bank of the Mississippi River. There are both men and women and a horse next to the river edge. Trees are cu... |
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Description: | Preliminary sketch for "Fort Pillow upon the Eve of the Evacuation by the Rebels". |
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Description: | Preliminary sketch of Hamburg Landing. Men are carrying items on land. There is a line of boats docked at the rivers edge. |
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Description: | "Scene on the Raging Tennessee" River. Preliminary sketch of a ship going down the Tennessee River from the vantage point of the deck of the ship. There is... |
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Description: | A sketch of a steamboat coming down the Tennessee River. Both shorelines are visible and there is another boat in the far distance. |
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Description: | Preliminary sketch of a distant ship on the river near an outcropping of land. |
Date: | 07 16 1864 |
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Description: | Illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper depicting Admiral Porter's fleet passing through Colonel Bailey's dam during the War on Red R... |
Date: | 1874 |
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Description: | Milwaukee River near the Milwaukee settlement. People are depicted doing work in boats along the shore. Original is a pen and ink drawing, presumably made ... |
Date: | 1876 |
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Description: | Drawing of a ship being loaded by Elmore & Kelly's Elevator on Fort Howard River looking north. A town and a train are in the background. |
Date: | 1903 |
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Description: | Drawing of a ship's steering wheel with river and trees visible through the cabin. |
Date: | 1903 |
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Description: | Drawing of a steamboat pulling a raft of cut boards. |
Date: | 1852 |
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Description: | Landscape view of Fort Snelling, Minnesota Territory from a nearby hill showing the Fort, the Mississippi river, the countryside, farm buildings and tipis.... |
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