Date: | 1842 |
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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 ... |
Date: | 1812 |
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Description: | Dagger from an American officer of the war of 1812. Renat was a member of the naval fleet of the Great Lakes which was under the command Oliver Hazard Perr... |
Date: | 1864 |
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Description: | Fort Crawford was decommissioned in 1856, having outlived its usefulness as a frontier post. During the Civil War, however, it functioned as a military ho... |
Date: | 1823 |
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Description: | British evacuation of their fort at Prairie du Chien after the end of the War of 1812. Fort Shelby, the first fort at Prairie du Chien, was built in 1814 b... |
Date: | 1849 |
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Description: | Hand-colored lithograph of Little Elk (Hoo-Wan-ne-ka), chief of the Ho-Chunk, as he appeared during an official visit to Washington, D.C. in 1824. This por... |
Date: | 1836 |
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Description: | Engraving of Dolly Madison, wife of James Madison, the fourth President of the United States. The engraving was done by J.F.E. Prudhomme from a drawing don... |
Date: | 1814 |
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Description: | Etching depicting the burning of Washington, D.C. by the British during the War of 1812. In the foreground are a number of soldiers moving toward the Capit... |
Date: | 04 1884 |
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Description: | An engraving depicting the impressment of American seamen by the British Navy during the period before the War of 1812. The image shows a group of American... |
Date: | 1855 |
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Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of a waist-up seated portrait of Col. John Johnston. Johnston is pictured here as an elderly man; however, he is remembered in Wi... |
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