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| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Albumen stereograph of the Union Army brass band posed and playing atop Lookout Point. The Tennessee River is in the background. |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from steep shoreline of a log jam of about 150 million feet of logs, stopped at the piers of Pound, Halbert, and Co., which stood in about 40... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | This map shows pictorially a section of bracketdam, section of tree dam, and crib of stone. This map was prepared by order of General Joseph Bailey and is ... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Morgan L. Martin standing in a landscape, with a dog sitting at his feet. |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Mill dam and sash factory. "The Northwester Gateway. Excursion to Lake Superior, June 1867. Photographed and Published by J. Carbutt, 131 Lake St., Chicago... |
| 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: | 1868 |
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| Description: | The sidewheel packet, Keokuk, loaded with passengers beside a barge at a landing. The landing is filled with people and horse-drawn vehicles. The si... |
| Date: | 03 1866 |
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| Description: | The sidewheel excursion, Phil Sheridan, at Wheeling, West Virginia in March, 1866. Sign on side of boat reads: "Cincinnati and Wheeling Packet, Phil... |
| Date: | 09 22 1860 |
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| Description: | Sketch from the "New York Illustrated News" of the sinking of the sidewheel passenger, Lady Elgin. She was struck and sunk by the Augusta on ... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the steamboat Golden Era, which did service during the Civil War, docked near buildings. It was sold to Michael Purcell of New Orle... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Drawn the first year of the Civil War, this colored 1861 map of Dane County shows its towns, cities and lakes. It includes insets of the wards of Madison a... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Drawn the second year of the Civil War, this 1862 map of Milwaukee shows post offices, light houses, beacon lights, county buildings, elevator warehouses, ... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | A woodprint of women with frightened child entitled "The First Dip Into Salt Water." |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Engraving of the McCormick Reaper Works as it appeared in 1867. The factory was located on the north bank of the Chicago River, east of the Rush Street bri... |
| Date: | 05 1866 |
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| Description: | Engraved exterior view of a smelting furnace with a small group of men with horses gathered in front. |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Birds-eye drawing of Appleton, Outagamie Co., depicting street names and street layout, houses, the Fox River, the court house, jail, school houses, Lawren... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | View of Madison from Main Hall, now Bascom Hall, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. South Hall is in the foreground, with several residences an... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | View of Madison from Main Hall, now Bascom Hall, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. South Hall is in the foreground with several residences an... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | View of Madison from Main Hall, now Bascom Hall, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus looking up State Street toward the second Wisconsin State Ca... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | View of Madison from Main Hall, now Bascom Hall, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. North Hall is in the foreground with several residences and... |
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