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Fort Howard

Date: 1851
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 ...
Painting

Fort Howard dans La Grand Baie Verte (Ouisconsin)

Date: 1842
Description: This hand-colored lithograph of the second Fort Howard, with Indians canoeing on the Fox River, shows the hospital built 1834-1835 outside the stockade on ...
Postcard

View Looking North Showing Elmore and Kelly's Elevator

Date: 1876
Description: Elevated view showing Elmore and Kelly's Elevator with a boat, train, and the buildings at Fort Howard. Fort Howard was incorporated into Green Bay. Captio...
Photograph

Fort Howard and Soldiers in a Boat

Date: 1851
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...
Drawing

Fort Howard

Date: 1851
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.
Photograph

Fort Howard from an Elevator

Date: 1865
Description: Elevated view of the fort, with snow on the ground.
Photograph

Inside Fort Howard

Date: 1853
Description: Stereograph of the interior of Fort Howard after its decommissioning in 1853.
Map or Atlas

Plan of Fort of Green Bay : [Fort Howard]

Date: 1816
Description: This is a photostat copy of a manuscript map in the National Archives showing a plan of Fort Howard and a view of its north side. Originally surveyed by Wi...
Map or Atlas

Plat of Navarino, Green Bay, Wisconsin Territory

Date: 1836
Description: This map of Navarino shows a development plat of the village situated opposite Fort Howard at mouth of the Fox River. The names of proprietors are listed a...
Map or Atlas

Military Reserve :The Following are the Boundaries of the Lands Which Have Been Occupied by the Troops of the U.S. at Fort Howard, Green Bay

Date: 1862
Description: This map shows landownership on a military reserve, private claims, buildings (including Fort Howard and U.S. sawmill), swamps, public barns and fields, an...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Town of Astor : (John Jacob Astor, Ramsay Crooks & Robert Stuart): Proprietors

Date: 1835
Description: Map shows the Fox River, lot and block numbers, private claims, streets, a public squares, a manual labour school, and Fort Howard. An inset map shows a pl...
Postcard

Panel of the Brown County Court House

Date: 1851
Description: Elevated view across water towards Fort Howard. In the foreground is a man standing on a pier, and in the water nearby are five men rowing in a boat. Capti...
Photograph

Fort Howard

Date: 1851
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 ...
Photograph

Fort Howard

Date: 1818
Description: Overhead view of the layout of the fort, with the Fox River at the top, and a "Cranberry Marsh of 1/2 mile in extent" below right. At the bottom is a rende...
Photograph

Fort Howard

Date: 1867
Description: Elevated view of Fort Howard, from the top of a grain elevator, when it was being destroyed to make room for the Chicago and Northwestern Railway switchyar...

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