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View of the Badlands

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Description: A view of the Badlands landscape. Rolling formations in the foreground give way to more extreme ones in the background.
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The Siege of Vicksburg

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Description: A large lithograph showing the landscape, camps and bombardment.
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Fort Hill

Date: 1902
Description: Confederate "Fort Hill" on the south side of Jackson Road where the Confederate entrenchments run southward. The Siege of Vicksburg lasted from May to July...
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Surrender Monument

Date: 1910
Description: Surrender Monument, where Generals Grant and Pemberton met to arrange terms for the surrender of Vicksburg, July 3, 1863. General Pemberton surrendered 31,...
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Battle of Grand Gulf

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Description: A halftone lithograph of the Battle of Grand Gulf, Mississippi.
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Steamship "Thomas Powell"

Date: 1863
Description: View from shoreline of the side-wheel steamship "Thomas Powell," probably in southern waters. Industrial buildings are in the background.
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Plan of Plimouth Including Bays, Harbors and Islands . . .

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Description: Hand-drawn map of the area at the time of Pilgrim landing, drawn by Charles Blaskowikz. Includes commemorative historical notes.
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Dousman Family

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Description: Page from photo album showing Nina S. Dousman and three sisters posed outdoors while hiking in a coulee, north of town. Nina is seated and reading. Three o...
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Outdoor Portrait of Children

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Description: Group of six children posed outdoors for a group portrait. An infant is in a baby carriage, the other children are standing.
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Freeport Sulphur Company

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Description: Four men stand around a sulphur bin with a massive cliff behind it at Freeport Sulphur Company, founded in 1912.
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Oil Well Pumps

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Description: View of the Salt Creek Oil Field. In the 1920's, one-fifth of all petroleum produced in the United States came from one oil field.
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Sigurd Olson Contemplates the Wilderness

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Description: Sig Olson at a wilderness camping site, probably in the Quetico area.
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Border Lake Outfitters

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Description: Border Lakes Outfitting Company, Sigurd Olson's summer business that provided guides and equipment for wilderness vacations.
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National Parks Advisory Board

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Description: Group portrait of the National Parks Advisory Board on one of its inspection trips. Sigurd Olson is second from the left.
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Wallace Stegner

Date: 1965
Description: Writer and conservationist Wallace Stegner, and his wife Mary, during a visit to Alaska as a member of the National Parks Advisory Board and special assist...
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Myles Horton on a Rock Formation

Date: 1980
Description: Myles Horton sits on a rock formation known as the Devil's Courthouse.
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Aerial View of the Inn at Buck Hill Falls

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Description: Aerial view of the Inn at Buck Hill Falls, built in 1901. A curving road leads to the main building, and several smaller outbuildings are nearby.
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Vicksburg Surrender Monument

Date: 04 1902
Description: Confederate veterans at the Vicksburg Surrender Monument, on the occasion of decorating Union soldiers' graves.
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Woman at Lookout Cliff

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Description: View of a woman taking a photograph from Lookout Cliff at Devil's Lake. Below, a train runs through a field surrounded by trees.
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Devil's Lake

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Description: View of Devil's Lake from the cliffs.

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