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| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | "....The third view was twelve miles farther up the river [from De Pere], at Rapid Croche, on the border of the present Brown and Outagamie counties. It is... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | " . . . The first in their series was not an 'improvement' but a view of the Green Bay settlement, looking downstream. From a simulated rustic fence corner... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | " . . . At Grand Chute stood the young settlement of Appleton. Although only a few years old, it already boasted a college, named, as was the village itsel... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | ". . . At De Pere they stopped on the west shore for a broad sketch of the dwellings clustered on both sides of the river. The distant dam, the mills, ware... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | ". . . The upper Grand Chute was the last of the 'improvements' paintings signed by Brookes and Stevenson. Yet there were two more vital links in the Fox R... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | "After painting a number of Fox River scenes, "the artists continued their way to Fond du Lac, at the south end of Lake Winnebago, where they found some mo... |
| Date: | 1830 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Dr. William Beaumont who conducted some of his famous experiments on human digestion while posted at Fort Crawford in Prairie du Chien in 1830.... |
| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | Oil painting portrait of a man. He is wearing an overcoat and dark top hat with two feathers in the hatband. There is some confusion about the last name;... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Main Street in Bayfield in 1870 with four cows standing in the street. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Ninth plate daguerreotype of a painted quarter-length portrait of Felix Walker, 1793-1828. Mr. Walker fought in the Revolutionary War alongside Daniel Boon... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of a painting of James Robertson. Robertson was a contemporary of Daniel Boone and was active in the exploration of the State of ... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Quarter plate daguerreotype of a painting of Colonel Robert Patterson (1753-1827). Patterson was a pioneer settler to both Kentucky and Ohio. He served in ... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Quarter plate daguerreotype of a painting of General Josiah Harmar. General Harmar fought for the United States against Native Americans in the 1780's and ... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Sunrise over Lake Monona and the Madison, Wisconsin isthmus, showing the Wisconsin State Capitol building in the distance. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Quarter plate daguerreotype of a painting of Bland Ballard (1761-1853). Ballard was a noted Kentucky pioneer, and also served as a scout for General George... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Quarter plate daguerreotype of a painting of General George Rogers Clark, as an older man. Clark is most well known for his role in the defense of the Nort... |
| Date: | 1843 |
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| Description: | Watercolor miniature of Julius Reinhold Lund, painted by Theodore Lund in 1843. Waist-up portrait facing forward, but with torso turned to the right (prope... |
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