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Date: | 11 25 1871 |
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Description: | Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak... |
Date: | 1862 |
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Description: | Camp Randall looking southwest. In April 1861, Governor Alexander Randall asked that the State Agricultural Society fairgrounds be converted into a militar... |
Date: | 1871 |
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Description: | Drawing of the Peshtigo Fire, showing people seeking refuge in the Peshtigo River. |
Date: | 02 1892 |
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Description: | Engraving of a fur trader standing in the middle of a circle of seated Indians in their council tepee. |
Date: | 03 1892 |
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Description: | Engraving of voyageurs gathered around a fire at their camp. |
Date: | 1835 |
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Description: | Little Lake Butte Des Morts just north of Lake Winnebago where Governor Lewis Cass of Michigan, and Thomas McKenney, head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Lithograph illustration for the back cover of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a gentleman sitting in a Victorian parlor pointing to... |
Date: | 1891 |
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Description: | Back cover illustration of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows children and adults, some of them circus performers, inside a large tent... |
Date: | 1850 |
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Description: | View of Michipicoton, Ontario on Lake Superior showing a village with log structures and tents. Fishing nets are drying on poles. |
Date: | 1832 |
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Description: | Mih-Tutta-Hangkusch, a Mandan village with boats on the river in foreground. |
Date: | 1853 |
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Description: | Bird's-eye map of Milwaukee looking east toward Lake Michigan from a bluff, long since graded into a slope, at about 6th Street between Wisconsin Avenue an... |
Date: | 1862 |
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Description: | Engraving from a painting of John Adams. Inscription reads: "John Adams From a Painting by Chappel, in the possession of the Publishers. Johnson, Fry & C... |
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Description: | Engraving from a painting of Thomas Jefferson, seated with books and writing implements. |
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Description: | An engraving of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Philip Livingston, and Roger Sherman, drafters of the Declaration of Independence gathered... |
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Description: | An engraving from a painting of Robert E. Lee signing the document that would end the war between the states in the presence of Ulysses S. Grant and their ... |
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Description: | Portrait engraving of Andrew Jackson with small inset of his home, The Hermitage, near Nashville, Tennessee. |
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Description: | Inside spread of 4-page advertising brochure for Fuller & Johnson Mfg. Co. Limited with a chromolithograph of a Bonanza Forge Drop planter, "The only perfe... |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee in 1853 details building features and city layout from southwest. Important buildings are numbered in a silhouette drawing bel... |
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Description: | A colored advertising card that was issued by the Land Department of the Wisconsin Central Railroad in order to promote the sale of railroad-owned land in ... |
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