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| Date: | 10 1844 |
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| Description: | A variant of a wood engraving dated October, 1844. Incorporated as the villige of Southport in 1841 (so-named because it was the southern-most natural harb... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking up the Wisconsin River, with Wausau in the background. There are railroad cars on a bridge on the right. |
| Date: | 1841 |
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| Description: | View across the river towards several residences on the opposite shoreline. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting of the exterior of the Eben Peck cabin by Mrs. E.E. Bailey. The location of this original painting is unknown. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Wisconsin River shoreline, showing lumber rafts "tied up over Sunday." |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Rumsey's Landing on the Chippewa River about two miles below Caryville. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of Cedar Street Bridge(?) with a rocky shoreline on the left. The construction of this bridge is the same as the Cedar Street bridge, but ... |
| Date: | 1836 |
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| Description: | Woodcut of Prairie du Chien in 1836. Text at bottom reads: "Prairie du Chien in 1836. From an old cut." |
| Date: | 1814 |
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| Description: | Fort Shelby, built by the Americans during the War of 1812. In 1814 the fort surrendered to British forces led by Captain Andrew W. Bulger who renamed it F... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A view of a dock showing a steam vessel and men with a team of horses towing a log raft. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Man in canoe close to shoreline with a bridge in the background. |
| Date: | 1837 |
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| Description: | Photographic print of an amateur painting, probably representing the "first house in Madison, Wisconsin." The Peck Cabin, one of the many free variations o... |
| Date: | 1839 |
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| Description: | Map of a canal route to avoid the principal rapids of the Neenah or Fox River between Lake Winnebago and Green Bay. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View down hill towards "Diamond Jo" steamboat docked on the shoreline of the Mississippi River while goods are being loaded onto the steamboat. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Rock formation, The Sphinx, on Stockton Island of the Apostle Islands. Steamer "Edna" in background on Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Tonyawatha Spring Hotel on Lake Monona. The hotel, on the east shore of the lake, is located in Blooming Grove Township, just... |
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