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| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | In August 1858, Hölzlhuber traveled up the St. Croix River to Stillwater, Minnesota, on the steamship Winona. He noted the upper Mississippi's tribu... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Back of painting reads: "Madison in June 1837 after photo taken by E.E. Bailey" and "Peck's cabin by Dengel." The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built... |
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| Description: | The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison. |
| Date: | 1821 |
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| Description: | Indians of the North Red River area, probably in the vicinity of old Fort Douglas, now Winnipeg, Canada, spearing beaver. |
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| Description: | Painting by Cal Peters depicting the battle of Bad Axe, also known as the Bad Axe massacre, at the Mississippi River on August 2, 1832. |
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| Description: | Watercolor of Canadian Prairie Indian at lake's shore with gun in hand and a recently hunted duck on the ground. A dog is at his feet. On the far shoreline... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | At the beginning of his journey to America, Hölzlhuber passed through the English Channel and viewed the cliffs at Dover. "We passed Beachy Head, as this p... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | This house, built on a hill close to the Milwaukee River, was the only one in the city as late as 1840. The owner of the house, Martin [Matthias] Stein, a ... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Hölzlhuber journeyed from Chicago to Louisville, Kentucky, and from there took a train south to Cave City, from which passengers boarded a stagecoach for t... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Business with Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper took Hölzlhuber to New York, and from there he also visited Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washingt... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | In April of 1860 Hölzlhuber took the railway from Milwaukee to Lake Horicon to visit the small town that was developing on its shore. Since the settlers we... |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | Fort Crawford (the second site, with buildings of 1829-?), on the east bank of the Mississippi River, about 2 miles above the mouth of the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | American Fur Company with both Mission churches. Sketch purportedly by a Native American youth. Probably an overpainted photographic copy enlargement. Pape... |
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| Description: | A painting depicting Marquette and Joliet in a birch bark canoe with two other men during their excursion on the Mississippi River, which they discovered o... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | "At the Grand Kakalin where the river runs almost directly eastward, Brookes and Stevenson paused to paint two scenes. One was a broad landscape showing th... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | "The second view at the Kakalin, from the north side of the river, shows the first or guard lock in the foreground and beyond the dam the large frame build... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | "....The third view was twelve miles farther up the river [from De Pere], at Rapid Croche, on the border of the present Brown and Outagamie counties. It is... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Sunrise over Lake Monona and the Madison, Wisconsin isthmus, showing the Wisconsin State Capitol building in the distance. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Watercolor design for a conservation poster made by a Wisconsin high school student as part of a competition. The poster has an image of birch trees on the... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Watercolor design for a conservation poster made by a Wisconsin high school student as part of a competition. The poster has an image of pine trees in a me... |
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