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Fort Armstrong
Illustration of Fort Armstrong on Rock Island, looking from opposite shoreline. There is a barge and other boats on the Mississippi River in front of the fort.
Fort Sumpter
1865
Exterior of Fort Sumpter [sic]. There are several men and a boat on the shoreline in the foreground.Plate 56
First Fort Crawford
October 1829
Fort Crawford as drawn by Seth Eastman. People are in a canoe in the river in the foreground. Across the river is the fort, other buildings around the fort, and in the distance are hills. Caption r...
Fort Howard
1851
Several men rowing in a boat near Fort Howard that has an American Flag, barracks, and various related military buildings enclosed behind a wall.
Portaging at Curtain Falls
View of men and young boys with canoes pulled up on rocks near a rapids during an unidentified wilderness canoe trip led by Sigurd Olson.
