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The White Castles, on the Upper Missouri

Date: 1832
Description: The White Castles, on the Upper Missouri River.
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Bison-Dance of the Mandan Indians in front of Their Medicine Lodge in Mih-Tutta-Hangkush

Date: 1832
Description: Bison-Dance of the Mandan Indians in front of their medicine lodge in Mih-Tutta-Hangkush.
Drawing

Running the Rapids of New River

Date: 02 21 1874
Description: African American boatmen run a rapids in a small river boat.
Map or Atlas

Map of Wiskonsin [sic] and Neenah Rivers

Date: 1839
Description: A map of the Wiskonsin [sic] and Neenah or Fox Rivers.
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Plano Binder Advertisement

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Description: Flyer for a Plano grain binder, featuring a caricature of a competitor's machine, manufactured by "Horsekiller & Co." The message is that the Plano binder...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 1917
Description: Elevated view at night of the Wisconsin State Capitol, including Carroll Street and Main Street.
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Buffalo Hunting

Date: 1844
Description: North American Indians on horseback during a buffalo hunt. "In [this plate], I have represented a party of Indians in chase of a herd, some of whom are pur...
Drawing

Fort Snelling, Minnesota Territory

Date: 1852
Description: Landscape view of Fort Snelling, Minnesota Territory from a nearby hill showing the Fort, the Mississippi river, the countryside, farm buildings and tipis....
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Square Turn Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1919
Description: Diagram listing the mechanical parts of the Square Turn tractor, as seen from the top.
Painting

Grand Kakalin (Kaukauna) Painting

Date: 1856
Description: "At the Grand Kakalin where the river runs almost directly eastward, Brookes and Stevenson paused to paint two scenes. One was a broad landscape showing th...
Painting

Grand Kakalin (South Kaukauna) Painting

Date: 1856
Description: "The second view at the Kakalin, from the north side of the river, shows the first or guard lock in the foreground and beyond the dam the large frame build...
Painting

Double Lock Painting

Date: 1856
Description: "Three views in a short space show the peaceful appearance of what is now a busy paper mills center. The first, a double lock around which the village of C...
Painting

Little Chute Painting

Date: 1856
Description: "Three views in a short space show the peaceful appearance of what is now a busy paper mills center . . . [One of them] is Little Chute, one of the pleasan...
Painting

Cedar Rapids Painting

Date: 1856
Description: "Three views in a short space show the peaceful appearance of what is now a busy paper mills center....The third, another rural river scene, whose composit...
Painting

Green Bay Painting

Date: 1856
Description: " . . . The first in their series was not an 'improvement' but a view of the Green Bay settlement, looking downstream. From a simulated rustic fence corner...
Painting

Grand Chute Painting

Date: 1856
Description: " . . . At Grand Chute stood the young settlement of Appleton. Although only a few years old, it already boasted a college, named, as was the village itsel...
Painting

De Pere Painting

Date: 1856
Description: ". . . At De Pere they stopped on the west shore for a broad sketch of the dwellings clustered on both sides of the river. The distant dam, the mills, ware...
Painting

Menasha Painting

Date: 1856
Description: ". . . The upper Grand Chute was the last of the 'improvements' paintings signed by Brookes and Stevenson. Yet there were two more vital links in the Fox R...
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Portage Painting

Date: 1856
Description: "After painting a number of Fox River scenes, "the artists continued their way to Fond du Lac, at the south end of Lake Winnebago, where they found some mo...
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Equip Your Farm With a Peoria

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement for the Peoria tractor with a headline reading: "Equip Your Farm With a Peoria! A Real Dividend-Paying Investment for Any Size Farm." The adv...

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