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| Date: | 04 19 1849 |
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| Description: | Poster offering $600 reward for the return of three runaway slaves in Calvert County, Maryland. The three slaves are Henry Morsell, Jim Parker, and Bill Hu... |
| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | This hand-colored lithograph of the second Fort Howard, with Indians canoeing on the Fox River, shows the hospital built 1834-1835 outside the stockade on ... |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Abraham Lincoln, from the original daguerreotype owned by his son, Robert T. Lincoln. |
| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | Shooting of Charles C.P. Arndt by James Vineyard in the territorial council chamber of the legislature. This depiction of the event was created by the staf... |
| Date: | 05 1849 |
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| Description: | Fort Leavenworth with trees, buildings and American flag. The fort was established by Colonel Henry Leavenworth to protect the Santa Fe trail against the I... |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | A head and shoulders portrait of Martin Van Buren, the 8th President of the United States from 1837-1841. Born on December 5, 1782 in Columbia, New York, ... |
| Date: | 1843 |
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| Description: | John Tyler, 10th President of the United States, from 1841-1845. Tyler was the first Vice President to become President upon the death of a sitting Presid... |
| Date: | 1841 |
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| Description: | A head and shoulders portrait of William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States, 1841. Born in Virginia on February 9, 1773, he was the first ... |
| Date: | 04 1841 |
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| Description: | A notice published In Memory of President Wm. H. Harrison, 9th President of the United States, upon his death, April 4, 1841, at the age of 68. The tribut... |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | A portrait of Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States, 1849-1850. Born in Virginia on November 24, 1784, Taylor died in office on July 9, 185... |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of James K. Polk, 11th President of the United States, 1845-1849. |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | A view of Fort Crawford (the second site and buildings of 1829-?). |
| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | American Fur Company with both Mission churches. Sketch purportedly by a Native American youth. Probably an overpainted photographic copy enlargement. Pape... |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Masthead of Racine, Wisconsin temperance publication The Old Oaken Bucket and Sons of Temperance Organ. The masthead features a bucolic scene at the... |
| Date: | 08 02 1845 |
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| Description: | Front page of "Southport American." |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Half plate daguerreotype of Nelson Dewey (1813-1889). Waist -up, facing forward, wearing suit and with right arm resting on a surface. Dewey was Governor o... |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin was considered part of Michigan Territory until 1836, a year before Michigan entered statehood. Drawn three years before Wisconsin entered stateh... |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | A campaign poster for Free Soil Party candidates Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams for President and Vice-President. Above is the American eagle, ... |
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