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| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | This landscape painting by Samuel Marsden Brookes and Thomas H. Stevenson depicts a broad view of the confluence of Bad Axe and Mississippi Rivers; site of... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Half plate daguerreotype, with view across water of the Oshkosh, Wisconsin harbor showing the bridge over the Fox River. Moored on the opposite shore are t... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | From Judge Smith Addition, 5th Ward, looking north, toward the city. Drawing is an elevated view of field and plank fence in foreground, road to the left a... |
| 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: | 1858 |
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| Description: | One of the many steamers that frequented the Mississippi River, shown here on choppy water in front of tree-covered bluffs. The ship has two smokestacks, f... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Departing from Lake Winnebago, Hölzlhuber boarded the Plymouth, a high, narrow steamboat that was built specially for navigating the narrow and some... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Hölzlhuber received a request from the German theater director Henry Börnstein in St. Louis, Missouri, to purchase his theater sets and music. Accordingly,... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Lithograph view of river with a riverboat on the river, and a family on a hill above the river. There is a wagon or cart on the road below the hill. |
| Date: | 08 1852 |
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| Description: | Pencil drawing of a lake shoreline. A few trees frame the arc of the shore and steamboats are visible along the distant shore. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Map of the Lake Superior region showing the railroad and steamboat connection. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Map of the Lake Superior region showing the railroad and steamboat connections. |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | View of Detroit with several boats and ships in (probably) the Detroit River. |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | George W. Dawson, an African-American passenger from the steamer Central America swims to a piece of debris to which several men are clinging after ... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Large group of people leaving a steam ship, some transporting large chests of their belongings. |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | " . . . The first in their series was not an 'improvement' but a view of the Green Bay settlement, looking downstream. From a simulated rustic fence corner... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Steam-powered car designed to run on ice across the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien. The LADY FRANKLIN made one successful trip across, but wa... |
| Date: | 09 1852 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of the collision of the Atlantic and the Ogdensburg on Lake Erie. |
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