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: | 1855 |
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Description: | Bird's-eye view of Madison. "Taken from the Water Cure, South Side of Lake Monona, 1855." |
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 (... |
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Description: | The sternwheel excursion, "Sidney," loading passengers at Red Wing. The gangplank is lowered and passengers are on deck and on the landing. Later named Was... |
Date: | 1906 |
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Description: | The sternwheel excursion, "J.S." in the moonlight on the Mississippi River taken in 1906. |
Date: | 09 22 1860 |
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Description: | Sketch from the "New York Illustrated News" of the sinking of the sidewheel passenger, Lady Elgin. She was struck and sunk by the Augusta on ... |
Date: | 1931 |
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Description: | Describes the amenities aboard the "North American" and "South American". |
Date: | 1832 |
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Description: | Travellers setting up camp along the Missouri River. |
Date: | 1832 |
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Description: | Camp of the Gros Ventres along the upper Missouri River, with white travelers passing by in a boat. |
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Description: | Engraving of George Washington and his troops rowing across an icy Delaware River to attack the British, from the painting by E. Leutze. |
Date: | 1784 |
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Description: | Plate 41. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska. |
Date: | 1784 |
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Description: | Plate 45. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska. |
Date: | 1928 |
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Description: | "The Dells," a brochure issued by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and Pacific Railroad to advertise the Wisconsin Dells, a destination only five hours fr... |
Date: | 1858 |
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Description: | Lithograph view of river with a riverboat on the river, and a family on a hill above the river. There is a wagon or cart on the road below the hill. |
Date: | 1863 |
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Description: | Black & white lithograph by Milwaukee lithographer Louis Kurz depicting the Madison Turners or Turnverein at a shooting party on the Madison lakefront. Th... |
Date: | 1858 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the Fourth Street bridge with various buildings in the background. Caption reads: "The New Fourth Street Bridge, Racine, Wisconsin." |
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