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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... |
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| Description: | Photographic copy of a painting depicting Fort Winnebago, made by I. A. Ridgway of Portage, Wisconsin. Fort Winnebago was built in 1827 by Major William W... |
| 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: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Several men rowing in a boat near Fort Howard that has an American Flag, barracks, and various related military buildings enclosed behind a wall. |
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| Description: | Sketch of the Fort at Michilimackinac (also called Mackinac) as it was under French rule. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | View of a stockade and blockhouse replica built on the site of the original stockade erected in 1862 during a small Sioux Indian uprising in nearby Minneso... |
| Date: | 1814 |
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| Description: | Fort Shelby, built by the Americans during the War of 1812. In 1814 the fort surrendered to British forces led by Captain Andrew W. Bulger who renamed it F... |
| 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: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Fox-Wisconsin portage and canal map, when the canal was not yet built. From a map in the office of the city clerk at Portage. "The old trail, the location ... |
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| Description: | View from rocky shore toward the stone tower at Fort William Henry. Four automobiles are parked in front of the tower, with houses and other buildings in t... |
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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: | Elevated view of Fort Seward from Mount Rippinsky, showing Pyramid Harbor and Davidson Glacier in distance. Caption reads: "Haines and Fort Wm. H. Seward f... |
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| Description: | An old woman known as Aunt Charlotte in an ox-drawn cart on fortress grounds. Caption reads: "Aunt Charlotte, Fortress Monroe, VA." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Block House, built in 1880, at the Pennsylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' Home. The United States flag waves on a pole atop the Block House.... |
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| Description: | A painting of a harbor view of Fort Sumter. A sailboat sails through the foreground waters, and the fort is in the background, with a United States flag wa... |
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| Description: | A general view of two members of the U.S. Life-saving Crew in a boat, during capsize drill. Camp facilities are on the left riverbank in a wooded area. Cap... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Men observe an early airplane at Camp Bowie, established in 1917. |
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| Description: | A hand-drawn map including the location of Daniel Boone's home and two forts, northeast of Lexington, Kentucky. |
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