Information on over 7,000 photographers who were active in Wisconsin from about 1840 to 1976. |
Date: | 05 27 1849 |
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Description: | The wagon train crossing Laramie Creek in Wyoming. |
Date: | 1849 |
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Description: | Fort Childs or New Fort Kearny in Nebraska Sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California on the Overland Trail (also known as the ... |
Date: | 05 1849 |
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Description: | Deserted Pawnee village in Nebraska. Sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California on the Overland Trail (also known as the Oregon... |
Date: | 1849 |
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Description: | Full-length portrait of Austin E. Quinney with a dog. |
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: | 1846 |
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Description: | "Rules to be observed by the pupils of public schools of Milwaukee." |
Date: | 1843 |
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Description: | Portrait of Ellen Clarinda Martin Kneeland. |
Date: | 1849 |
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Description: | Portrait of Jane Quinney, (born Ashotomay) wife of Austin E. Quinney, chief of the Stockbridge nation, and their daughter, Harriet. |
Date: | 1845 |
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Description: | Illustration of Chippewa and Sioux Indians battling each other at the Brule River. Wood engraving from Armstrong, "Early Life Among The Indians." |
Date: | 1845 |
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Description: | A sixth-plate daguerreotype of Sophronia Newcomb Larkin, who married Benjamin Franklin Larkin. She is seated, and is wearing a dress with a white collar. H... |
Date: | 05 1849 |
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Description: | Old Fort Kearney (Nebraska City). Sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California on the Overland Trail (also known as the Oregon Tr... |
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: | 01 12 1844 |
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Description: | A pen and ink drawing of a log cabin, pork casks, and a washtub, contained in a letter written by Thomas Steel, Waukesha County farmer and physician, to hi... |
Date: | 1848 |
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Description: | Redbird, a Winnebago Indian, following his surrender after an attack on Prairie du Chien in 1827. |
Date: | 06 24 1849 |
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Description: | Original wash drawing of Fort Laramie, Wyoming (actually Fort John; see note below). Sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California... |
Date: | 1849 |
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Description: | Advertising handbill for Cyrus Hall McCormick's patent Virginia Reaper. Printed for C.H. McCormick & Co. by James J. Langdon, Chicago, Illinois. |
Date: | 1845 |
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Description: | Engraving depicting the defeat of Black Hawk by General Henry Atkinson at the Battle of Bad Axe on August 2, 1832. The engraving depicts Federal Regulars a... |
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