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Yerkes Observatory

Date: 1935
Description: Elevated exterior view of Yerkes Observatory. Geneva Lake is in the background, left. Roads and sidewalks cross the sweeping, well tended lawns. The desi...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Route of the Military Road from Fort Crawford to Fort Howard Via Fort Winnebago

Date: 1936
Description: This map is red and black ink on tracing cloth and is oriented with north to the upper left. This hand-drawn map shows a central portion of the military ro...
Drawing

Wilkins 19: Fording Laramie Creek

Date: 05 27 1849
Description: The wagon train crossing Laramie Creek in Wyoming.
Drawing

Wilkins 12: Fort Childs or New Fort Kearny

Date: 1849
Description: Fort Childs or New Fort Kearny in Nebraska Sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California on the Overland Trail (also known as the ...
Drawing

Wilkins 11: The Deserted Pawnee Village

Date: 05 1849
Description: Deserted Pawnee village in Nebraska. Sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California on the Overland Trail (also known as the Oregon...
Photograph

Trail Through Pines

Date: 1905
Description: Trail through the pines between Chippewa Falls and Long Lake, Chippewa County.
Drawing

Wilkins 10: Old Fort Kearney

Date: 05 1849
Description: Old Fort Kearney (Nebraska City). Sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California on the Overland Trail (also known as the Oregon Tr...
Drawing

Wilkins 18: Fort Laramie

Date: 06 24 1849
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...
Photograph

Man and Woman on a Pathway

Date: 1900
Description: Overhead view of a man and woman on a pathway, she in white against a dark background, and he in shirt and vest.
Photograph

Retreat of the Indians with their Prisoners

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Description: Photograph of an engraving from an unknown source depicting a group of Native American warriors herding white captives along a trail. A building burns in ...
Photograph

Bad River Bridge

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Description: Two people on a rustic bridge over Bad River at Copper Falls State Park.
Photograph

Witches' Gulch

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Description: Looking out of the entrance to Witches' Gulch showing wooden walkway.
Photograph

Fat Man's Misery

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Description: Fat Man's Misery, the narrow defile in Cold Water Canyon.
Photograph

Witches' Gulch Tourist Stand

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Description: Wooden walkway leading to covered outdoor platform with tables and benches, and to a building beyond.
Photograph

Stone Path in Cold Water Canyon

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Description: Stone path at entrance of Cold Water Canyon.
Photograph

Tourists at Cold Water Canyon

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Description: Unidentified group of tourists posing standing in Cold Water Canyon. There is a man in the background on the left with a camera.
Photograph

Witches' Gulch

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Description: Witches' Gulch; approach to Phantom Chamber.
Photograph

Phantom Chamber

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Description: Witches' Gulch; Phantom Chamber with wooden walkway.
Photograph

Train Near Ink Stand

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Description: Elevated view of a train running parallel to the river, past the Ink Stand. Several people are standing along the tracks and waving.
Photograph

U.S. Sugar Company

Date: 1924
Description: Two women standing on path in front of the Garver Feed Mill, which was originally a sugar beet processing factory.

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