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| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Jean Nicolet (1598-1642) was the first European to see Wisconsin and was a prominent French explorer who, for many years, lived among the Indians of Quebec... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Painted scene of an Indian guide paddling, Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary standing, and Louis Joliet, a fur trader paddling in a canoe exploring th... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Nine men arrive at Fort William by canoe. Fort William, also called Kaministiguia, was the Hudson's Bay fur trading post. Men are standing along the opposi... |
| Date: | 1821 |
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| Description: | Engraving depicting the Schoolcraft expedition crossing the Ontonagon River to investigate a copper boulder. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Front and back covers of an advertising brochure for the New Empire line of mowers, reapers and grain binders manufactured by J.F. Seiberling & Company. Th... |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Christopher Columbus begins his first expedition, 1492. |
| Date: | 1632 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin portion of Champlain's 1632 map, augmented since the previous one, for navigation according to the true Meridien, by Sieur de Champlain. The ... |
| Date: | 03 30 1938 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Attilio Gatti carried by four Congolese men during her husband's expedition to the African Congo. The expedition was sponsored by the International Ha... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men unloading trucks and equipment from a ship shortly after arrival in the African Congo. The equipment was used by Commander Atillio Gat... |
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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... |
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| Description: | View of men and young boys with canoes pulled up on rocks near a rapids during an unidentified wilderness canoe trip led by Sigurd Olson. |
| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | This hand-colored map shows the area from Michigan west to the Missouri River and Lake Winnipeg, and includes expedition routes of Stephen H. Long and Henr... |
| Date: | 02 22 1930 |
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| Description: | William Conrad Seipp, Jr., left, and his daughter Melita, far right, pose with Alma Schmidt Petersen and her son Conrad at an overlook above Portofino Bay.... |
| Date: | 1684 |
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| Description: | Map of North America showing some colonies, cities, rivers, lakes, and Native American land. Ship routes spread across both oceans, including one decorated... |
| Date: | 1713 |
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| Description: | Map showing the regions explored by Robert de La Salle between 1681 and 1686, as well as the route La Salle, and later Henri Joutel, took, moving north fro... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | View down shoreline towards the travelers pausing in their canoe journey to have lunch on the riverbank below Gordon Dam. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | The travelers, including Diadem, taking the ferry at Pansy. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Bill Williams standing in front of a tree at the shoreline. There is a canoe next to him on the left, and paddles, bags and boxes are on the ground on the ... |
| Date: | 08 1916 |
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| Description: | Two of The Gang (maybe Jack and Dad) canoeing homeward down the Chippewa River. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A view through foliage of the canoes at the Presque Isle River, where The Gang completed their first portage of the trip. |
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