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Parade on Main Street

Date: 1899
Description: View of a marching band parading beneath a decorated arch on Main Street. Onlookers line both sides of the street. American flags are flying over the road ...
Photograph

Ice Skating on the Manitowoc River

Date: 1888
Description: Elevated view of a winter scene with a large group of people skating on the frozen Manitowoc River between the 8th and 10th Street bridges. A dog trots acr...
Photograph

Family in Front of Home

Date: 1890
Description: Husband and wife with their six children and two dogs posed in front of their log cabin home. There is a framed addition on one side of the structure and a...
Photograph

District 2 Class Picture

Date: 1892
Description: Group of schoolchildren posed sitting and standing on a fallen tree trunk. They are dressed in their finest clothes for a school photograph. One of the boy...
Photograph

Karst Family

Date: 1895
Description: Women bringing lunch to the men working in the field. The men are harvesting grain using a horse-drawn grain binder.
Photograph

Schuette Bros. Store

Date: 1891
Description: Exterior view of Schuette Brothers Store on S. Eighth Street. There are two horse-drawn vehicles in front of the store. There is a small mannequin in the s...
Photograph

Schuette Bros. Employees

Date: 1888
Description: Men who worked for Schuette Brothers Store assembled in front of the store. There are horses on both sides of the photograph, and the one on the right is p...
Photograph

Rand & Roemer Hardware Co.

Date: 1891
Description: Exterior view from street of Rand & Roemer Hardware Co. and Henry Hinrich's Drug Store. Also visible are Rand & Roemer Ship Chandlery (nautical supply), Ra...
Photograph

Ward S. Williams Co. after Tornado

Date: 07 1899
Description: People stand among the rubble of Ward S. Williams Co.'s stone block building after a tornado.
Print

George Dawson Denied Access to Raft

Date: 1857
Description: George W. Dawson, an African-American passenger from the steamer Central America swims to a piece of debris to which several men are clinging after ...
Book or Pamphlet

Illustration from The Yellow Wallpaper

Date: 1892
Description: Illustration to the story The Yellow Wallpaper, depicting a woman seated in a rocking chair next to a window writing. The caption reads, "I am sitti...
Drawing

Shopiere Flouring Mill

Date: 1858
Description: Drawing of the exterior of the Shopiere Flouring Mill. Several men, some in a horse-drawn wagon are in front of the building.
Photograph

Elevated View of Vicksburg

Date: 1862
Description: Elevated view of Vicksburg, with the Mississippi River in the background.
Photograph

Andersonville Prison

Date: 08 17 1864
Description: View of tents at Andersonville Prison, officially known as Camp Sumter in Georgia.
Photograph

U.S. Capitol

Date: 07 11 1863
Description: View of the east front of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. A small group of people stand near a fence on the lawn in front of the building. A ...
Magazine or Periodical

Depictions of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Date: 04 29 1865
Description: Illustrations on the "National Police Gazette" front page depicting various events regarding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Book or Pamphlet

Donations for Sufferers of Yellow Fever

Date: 09 28 1878
Description: An illustration depicting well-dressed ferry passengers depositing money in the yellow fever box at Fulton Ferry. A sign reads: "Contributions recieved (
Book or Pamphlet

Woman's Library at the World's Columbian Exposition

Date: 08 1893
Description: View of the main room of the Woman's Library in the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition.
Print

Pittsburg Landing, Battle of Shiloh

Date: 1887
Description: Engraving of Pittsburg Landing taken from a photograph a few days after the Battle of Shiloh (Tennessee), which occurred on April 6-7, 1862. The image sho...
Print

Portrait of Little Elk

Date: 1849
Description: Hand-colored lithograph of Little Elk (Hoo-Wan-ne-ka), chief of the Ho-Chunk, as he appeared during an official visit to Washington, D.C. in 1824. This por...

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