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| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | A rare photograph of U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Howard rowing a boat on the Fox River. Fort Howard, built in 1816, was the first in the chain of ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Nine men arrive at Fort William by canoe. Fort William, also called Kaministiguia, was the Hudson's Bay fur trading post. Men are standing along the opposi... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | View of five soldiers rowing in a boat, beside a dock, with another soldier standing on the dock. The fort is in the background, complete with the fortifie... |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | Fort Crawford (the second site, with buildings of 1829-?), on the east bank of the Mississippi River, about 2 miles above the mouth of the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 07 07 1929 |
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| Description: | Miss Mary Prescott and Mrs. William McMahon, grandaughter and great grandaughter, respectively, of Pierre Paquette, appeared at a meeting called by the Wis... |
| Date: | 07 17 1917 |
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| Description: | ROTC engineers, probably at Fort Sheridan, in training for trench construction. Victor Morris of Milwaukee, in whose wartime album this photograph appears,... |
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| Description: | Several French fur traders negotiating with native Indians at La Baye. |
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| Description: | A view of Dorchester Fort, overrun with plants and trees. There is a man in the front seat of a carriage visible through a break in the wall. |
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| Description: | A Christmas Card with two views. The on on the left is featuring an image of a girl sledding while wearing winter gear, and on the right is a photograph of... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Scene of 16 figures. A slave owner is raising his whip as black families are racing towards Fort Monroe, with some remaining behind picking cotton. The sla... |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card featuring a girl wearing a red uniform and a sword, standing on the roof of a fort. A boy in a tan uniform with a sword, is looking at... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow and barbed wire fence of a group of soldiers constructing a log blockhouse. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of possibly both American and British soldiers standing just outside a blockhouse fortification. There are piles of logs and an axe on the ground i... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow of two soldiers standing outside a blockhouse fortification. One soldier is wearing heavy wool furs and is armed with a rifle, and the oth... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow of a soldier with a rifle standing near a timber and sandbag constructed blockhouse. In the distance is a Russian town. The most prominent... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow of three soldiers standing in front of a blockhouse that has a tall wooden fence along the exterior. The man on the left is armed with a r... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow towards four soldiers standing near brush piles. Two men standing in the center, and two men stand behind the brush, defending the road to... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Four soldiers stand outside a blockhouse in the snow. One man stands on the left side of the building, the other three men stand on the right. The building... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A shell-proof shelter alongside other buildings, possible a soldiers' barracks. In the distance there are two men placing wood on a horse-drawn sled. Anoth... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow-covered ground towards a machine gun emplacement and its three man crew on the roof of a shed. |
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