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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 ...
Drawing

Wilkins 18: Fort Laramie

Date: 06 24 1849
Description: Original wash drawing of Fort Laramie, Wyoming (actually Fort John; see note below). Sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California...
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.
Map or Atlas

A Manuscript Map of Fort Winnebago

Date: 1830
Description: Fort Winnebago from an original drawing by Jefferson Davis.
Painting

Fort Crawford

Date: 1840
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.
Painting

Fort Crawford

Date: 1840
Description: A view of Fort Crawford (the second site and buildings of 1829-?).
Painting

Fort Crawford

Date: 1830
Description: Fort Crawford (the original site, 1816-1831).
Drawing

Fort Crawford

Date: 1829
Description: Fort Crawford, from a sketchbook attributed to Seth Eastman, 1808-1875. A graduate of West Point, Eastman briefly served at Fort Crawford, 1829-1839.
Drawing

Fox-Wisconsin Canal

Date: 1855
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 ...
Photograph

Fort Winnebago

Date: 1831
Description: Fort Winnebago, a print published in Mrs. John H. Kinzie's Wau-bun (1856).
Manuscript

Fortifications at Washington, D.C.

Date: 04 1862
Description: Stationery depicting the fortifications around Washington, D.C., during the second year of the Civil War: Arlington Heights, directly across the Potomac Ri...
Photograph

View Across the Tennessee River

Date: 1864
Description: View across the Tennessee River toward the city and Cameron Hill, showing the military bridge and some Union Army installations put up following the occupa...
Map or Atlas

Plan of the Settlement at Prairie des Chiens from the Report of J. [sic] Lee Esq., Agent, &c. : Not Taken from Actual Survey

Date: 1820
Description: This map displays the plan for claiming various settlement zones in the Prairie des Chiens area in 1820. It shows Fort Crawford and 87 confirmed and unconf...
Map or Atlas

Early Wisconsin Counties and Tribes

Date: 1846
Description: A hand-colored map of Wisconsin shows the counties in the state south and east of the Wisconsin and Fox rivers and the locations of Indian lands to the nor...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin and Iowa Territories

Date: 1848
Description: A map of the Wisconsin and Iowa territories, with the surveyed counties of southern Wisconsin and eastern Iowa identified. The map shows the sectioning of ...
Map or Atlas

Map of the State of Wisconsin

Date: 1850
Description: A hand-colored map showing portions of present-day Iron and Vilas counties north of the Manitowish River as part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The Wi...
Map or Atlas

New Map of the State of Wisconsin

Date: 1852
Description: A hand-colored map showing portions of present-day Iron and Vilas counties north of the Manitowish River as part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The Wi...
Map or Atlas

Henrico Co., Virginia, With Additions, Showing the Defensive Lines and Works of Richmond

Date: 1864
Description: This map created during the Civil War indicates Confederate fortifications, houses, names of residents, towns, roads, railroads, relief by hachures, draina...

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