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Waa-Na-'Taa or The Foremost in Battle, Chief of the Sioux Tribe

Date: 1835
Description: Waa-Na-'Taa or The Foremost in Battle, Chief of the Sioux Tribe. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, painted at the Treaty of Prairie du...
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Camp Randall

Date: 1862
Description: Camp Randall looking southwest. In April 1861, Governor Alexander Randall asked that the State Agricultural Society fairgrounds be converted into a militar...
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Tracteurs Deering

Date: 1929
Description: Advertising folder for Deering 10-20 and 15-30 tractors, showing an Arab man in the foreground and tractors at work in the background. Printed for Algiers,...
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Mass of Native Copper on the Ontonagon River

Date: 1821
Description: Engraving depicting the Schoolcraft expedition crossing the Ontonagon River to investigate a copper boulder.
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Travelers on Lake Superior

Date: 1850
Description: Travelers in a rowing canoe on Lake Superior.
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Excursion Steamer Sidney on Mississippi River

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Description: The sternwheel excursion, Sidney, on the Mississippi River at New Orleans. All three decks are full of passengers. Later named "Washington."
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Washinga Sahba's Grave on Blackbird's Hills

Date: 1832
Description: Engraving of Indians on horseback along river with Indian grave on hill in background.
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Fort Pierre on the Missouri River

Date: 1832
Description: Black and white engraving showing landscape with Fort Pierre and Indian tipis along the Missouri River.
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Funeral Scaffold of a Sioux Chief near Fort Pierre

Date: 1832
Description: Funeral of a Sioux Chief near Fort Pierre.
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Remarkable Hills on the Upper Missouri

Date: 1832
Description: Remarkable Hills on the Upper Missouri River (views 10-29). Various scenes of land formations.
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Remarkable Hills on the Upper Missouri River

Date: 1832
Description: Remarkable hills on the Upper Missouri River (views 1-9). Various landscapes and rock formations.
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Remarkable Hills on Upper Missouri

Date: 1832
Description: Remarkable Hills on Upper Missouri River (view 14).
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Remarkable Hills on the Upper Missouri

Date: 1832
Description: Remarkable hills on the Upper Missouri River (view 1).
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Remarkable Hills on the Upper Missouri

Date: 1832
Description: Remarkable hills on the Upper Missouri River (views 10, 11, and 12)
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Lead Region of the Upper Mississippi River

Date: 1853
Description: Engraved view of miners and hillside mines in the Lead Region. Caption reads: "Sketch of the Lead Region."
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: Elevated view from bluff looking down on city, with Lake Michigan in background. Detailed foreground with two boys playing with a grounded kite, while a ma...
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IHC Hay Presses

Date: 1914
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for IHC hay presses featuring an illustration of a landscape of a valley with farms and fields.
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Native of Oonalashka, and Their Habitations

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 57. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
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Wisconsin Western Railroad Pass

Date: 1900
Description: Pass # 258 issued to General Manager Charles Lapham by the Wisconsin Western Railroad for the year 1900.
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Fortified Village of Aztalan

Date: 1955
Description: Artist's conception of ancient village of Aztalan, fortified with high walls surrounding it.

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