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| Date: | 11 25 1871 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak... |
| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | Waa-Na-'Taa or The Foremost in Battle, Chief of the Sioux Tribe. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, painted at the Treaty of Prairie du... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Madison. "Taken from the Water Cure, South Side of Lake Monona, 1855." |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | A sign for Fauerbach's Brewery depicting a young woman and the brewery. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Tonyawatha Spring Hotel from a descriptive brochure. The hotel opened in 1879 and was destroyed by fire on July 31, 1895. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the Peshtigo Fire, showing people seeking refuge in the Peshtigo River. |
| Date: | 06 1837 |
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| Description: | Lithograph based on a painting by Mrs. E.E. Bailey showing the Peck cabin, the first house in Madison. In addition to the cabin, the lithograph includes a ... |
| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | Little Lake Butte Des Morts just north of Lake Winnebago where Governor Lewis Cass of Michigan, and Thomas McKenney, head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph illustration on the back cover of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a buffalo gazing down upon men with harvesting m... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a steam powered sailing ship named "Progress" with a McCorm... |
| Date: | 1821 |
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| Description: | Engraving of the Pictured Rocks shoreline viewed from Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 1821 |
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| Description: | Engraving depicting the Schoolcraft expedition crossing the Ontonagon River to investigate a copper boulder. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Travelers in a rowing canoe on Lake Superior. |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, "Sidney," loading passengers at Red Wing. The gangplank is lowered and passengers are on deck and on the landing. Later named Was... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, J.S., landing passengers, taken between 1901 and 1910. Crowds are on riverbank and there are buildings in background. A cr... |
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| Description: | View along shoreline of the sternwheel excursion, J.S., getting ready to leave for Winona. A crowd is watching from the landing. A crane on the fron... |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, Sidney, on the Mississippi River at New Orleans. All three decks are full of passengers. Later named "Washington." |
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| Description: | The sidewheel excursion, Saint Paul, underway. In the background is the Alton Bridge. Later named Senator. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, "J.S." in the moonlight on the Mississippi River taken in 1906. |
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