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Old Abe and the 8th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Date: 07 1863
Description: "Old Abe" and "Color Guard" of the Eighth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, posed in uniform, outside with Old Abe on a shield perch. Likely Edward H...
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An Imperial Scene up the Tennessee River

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Description: "An 'Imperial Scene' up the Tenn." (Tennessee River). A view from the rear of a man maneuvering a steamboat up the river using a steering wheel.
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Hamburg Landing

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Description: Preliminary sketch of Hamburg Landing. Men are carrying items on land. There is a line of boats docked at the rivers edge.
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Magazine at Farmington

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Description: A magazine (storage, usually for ammunition) at Farmington near Grand Junction (Tennessee). Soldiers are working around a storage area dug into the raised ...
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Scene on the Raging Tennessee River

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Description: "Scene on the Raging Tennessee" River. Preliminary sketch of a ship going down the Tennessee River from the vantage point of the deck of the ship. There is...
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Battery G, 1st Ohio Pickets near Farmington

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Description: "Battery G, 1st Ohio Pickets near Farmington". A picket (a detachment of one or more troops) shown in a woodland setting. There is a log building with a ca...
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People Sketches

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Description: Various sketches of people's faces.
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People's Faces

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Description: Preliminary sketches of people's faces. Shows several women and one bearded man.
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Hospital Sketch

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Description: "Hospital and (indecipherable) during the last days battle at Fort Donelson on the Tennessee." Building with people and several trees.
Drawing

A Member of the Mule Cavalry

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Description: Several partial sketches of a man on a mule, a separate mule and various lines.
Photograph

Reliance Flooring Mill

Date: 1879
Description: The Reliance Flooring Mill. Men are posing in front, and another man is on a horse-drawn vehicle near the loading dock. The mill building was physically mo...
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Two Men Sitting a Field

Date: 10 14 1927
Description: Two men, one identified as P.T. Schraider, pose in the middle of a field.
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Rock Quarry on Blackhawk Bluff

Date: 06 13 1913
Description: Workmen and machinery at the quarry on Blackhawk Bluff. The gravel was used in construction of the power dam.
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Man and Boy Driving on a Rural Road

Date: 1914
Description: Man and boy, possibly father and son, drive an International Model M truck on rough dirt road near a fence.
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International Model M Truck Towing Wagon

Date: 1915
Description: An International Model M truck parked in front of several billboard advertisements near a large brick building. The billboards include advertisements for "...
Photograph

Man with Plow and Mule

Date: 1914
Description: A man is using a mule to pull a walking plow through a farm field. Farm buildings are in the distance.
Print

The Missionary

Date: 1892
Description: Photographic print of an engraved image showing a robed missionary standing in a birch bark canoe paddled by four Native Americans and another man who appe...
Photograph

Covington and Fiskburg Bus

Date: 1914
Description: A man stands on a lawn by the front wheel of an International bus marked "Covington and Fiskburg." In the background is a fence and beyond that is a covere...
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Portage at Basswood Lake

Date: 1910
Description: The Gang's canoes are at the shore of Basswood Lake as they prepare to portage.

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