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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: | 1900 |
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Description: | Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio... |
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: | 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. |
Date: | 1842 |
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Description: | A Menominee village as depicted by Francois, Comte de Castelnau, a French naturalist and diplomat who visited the Green Bay area about 1838. The detailed, ... |
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Description: | Advertisement for the sternwheel excursion, G.W. Hill, with an engraving of the sternwheel docked at the riverside, and a description of its feature... |
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Description: | Cover from songbook used on the "S.S. North American." Back cover advertises the sailings of the "North American" and "South American." Includes pic... |
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Description: | Pages 1-2 of the Songbook for the "S.S. North American" includes an index and the lyrics for 2 songs. |
Date: | 1832 |
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Description: | Steamboat navigating through sunken trees on the Missouri River. |
Date: | 1832 |
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Description: | Travellers setting up camp along the Missouri River. |
Date: | 1832 |
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Description: | Punka Indians encamped on the banks of the Missouri River and canoeing in river. |
Date: | 1832 |
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Description: | Mih-Tutta-Hangkusch, a Mandan village with boats on the river in foreground. |
Date: | 1832 |
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Description: | Two dog-sledges hauling supplies, with one also carrying a Mandan. |
Date: | 1832 |
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Description: | Camp of the Gros Ventres along the upper Missouri River, with white travelers passing by in a boat. |
Date: | 1853 |
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Description: | Engraved exterior view of a lead mining furnace. A man sits in a horse-drawn wagon at the left of the building. |
Date: | 1899 |
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Description: | Campaign poster with the title "Posterity" for Theodore Roosevelt and William McKinley featuring their portraits. In the center is an illustration of a wom... |
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Description: | Engraving of George Washington and his troops rowing across an icy Delaware River to attack the British, from the painting by E. Leutze. |
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