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Alma from Mississippi River

Date: 1890
Description: Mississippi River, with Alma in the distance, a typical river town which flourished in the 1850s.
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Faville Homestead

Date: 1885
Description: The Faville home, built about 1850 on 120 acres bought from the government in 1844. As late as 1922 the home was still in the Faville family. The additions...
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Fort McPherson

Date: 1865
Description: View from a distance of Fort McPherson, built under the direction of Samuel Glyde Swain.
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The "Prairie Bird"

Date: 1864
Description: Union gunboat "Prairie Bird," a small rear-wheel steamship.
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Aiming a Cannon

Date: 1885
Description: Wisconsin National Guardsmen gathered around a cannon, possibly positioning it to aim at a target.

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