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Map of Indian Land Cessions

Date: 1899
Description: This color map, originally published in the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology's 18th annual report, shows the Indian land cessions in Wi...
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Map of a Portion of the Indian Country

Date: 1835
Description: Constructed for the Topographical Bureau [Wash.], 1835. Scale: 16 miles to 1 inch. Map of a portion of the Indian country lying east and west of the Missis...
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Part of a Military Road from Fort Crawford to Fort Howard

Date: 1833
Description: Map of part of the military road from Fort Crawford to Fort Howard. "Recorded on pages 668.669 Book B." Surveyed by Lieut. Center. Scale: 2 miles = 1 inch.
Photograph

First Toll Bridge

Date: 1866
Description: First toll bridge over an unidentified river.
Photograph

Sioux Sun Dance

Date: 1874
Description: Copy photograph of a painting of a Sioux Sun Dance ritual. Painting by Jules Tavernier.
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Wisconsin 2

Date: 1899
Description: This map shows color coded and numbered regions of Indian land cessions. Lake Superior and Lake Michigan are labeled and other lakes and rivers are shown. ...
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Ethnographical Map of the Indian Tribes of the United State A.D. 1600

Date: 1857
Description: Information depicting the history, condition and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States: collected and prepared under the direction of the Bur...
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Central Virginia; Comp. in the Bureau of Topographical Eng. of the War Department for Military Purposes, July 186

Date: 1864
Description: This battlefield map of the Battle of Totopotomoy Creek, also known as the Battle of Bethesda Church, shows the railroads, roads, vegetation and topography...
Photograph

Eau Claire County Courthouse Before Remodeling

Date: 1875
Description: View of the courthouse. Roof and lower part have since been changed.
Photograph

Fort Howard from an Elevator

Date: 1865
Description: Elevated view of the fort, with snow on the ground.
Print

Inauguration Ticket

Date: 1889
Description: Ticket for the inauguration of President Benjamin Harrison. This ticket belonged to William Freeman Vilas of Wisconsin, the Secretary of the Interior. The ...
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Wisconsin 1

Date: 1899
Description: This map shows color coded and numbered regions of Indian land cessions. Lake Superior and Lake Michigan are labeled and other lakes and rivers are shown. ...
Photograph

Big Mill

Date: 05 30 1889
Description: View of the Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company's Big Mill beyond the Wagon Bridge over the Chippewa River.
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Campaign of the Army of the Potomac

Date: 1862
Description: The second in a series of three maps of the Virginia Peninsula. This map details the area from Williamsburg north to West Point.
Print

View of the Butte des Morts Treaty Ground, with the arrival of the Commissioners Gov. Lewis Cass and Col. McKenny

Date: 1835
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 (...
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Campaign of the Army of the Potomac

Date: 1862
Description: The third in a series of three maps of the Virginia Peninsula. This map details the area from Harrison's Landing west to Richmond and shows troop positions...
Photograph

North Broadway with Dirt Road

Date: 1870
Description: View of dirt road with houses along both sides, and wooden walkways and picket fences along the road.
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Campaign of the Army of the Potomac

Date: 1862
Description: The first in a series of three maps of the Virginia Peninsula. This map details the area from Williamsburg south to Fortress Monroe at Hampton Roads and sh...
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Our Church Life Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1897
Description: A map of Wisconsin showing the self-supporting churches, Home Missionary churches, stations not organized, Sunday schools of C.S.S. Society, Congregational...
Photograph

Indian Log Drivers

Date: 1899
Description: View along shoreline towards Indian log drivers, two in a bateau, and one man standing on the bank of the Chippewa River.

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