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| Description: | Watercolor of an Indian hunting buffalo while riding a horse and shooting a bow and arrow. The buffalo being hunted has one arrow in its side. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for Buffalo Pitts threshers sold by International Harvester. The cover features an illustration of four buffalo standing ne... |
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| Description: | View of several cowboys on horseback on a range near Tulsa, Oklahoma. A large number of cattle can be seen nearby. Text on photograph reads: "A Cattle Scen... |
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| Description: | View of hunters' horses and dead bison on a plain. |
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| Description: | A view of a symmetrical rows of trees in an orchard on the plains. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Disney film crew in UW-Madison Arboretum's Curtis Prairie filming a prescribed burn. |
| Date: | 1847 |
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| Description: | A hand-colored map that shows the area south and east of the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers, as well as a few landmarks just north of that area. The township gri... |
| Date: | April 13 1953 |
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| Description: | Disney film crew filming a prescribed burn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum for inclusion in the film The Vanishing Prairie. A camer... |
| Date: | April 13 1953 |
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| Description: | Disney film crew shooting a prescribed burn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum for inclusion in the film The Vanishing Prairie. A came... |
| Date: | 1839 |
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| Description: | This map shows the township and section grid, lakes, rivers, swamps, prairies, roads, and proposed canals in the area of Wisconsin south of Lake Winnebago... |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | This hand-colored map shows the township and section grid in southeastern Wisconsin, covering the area west to Sugar River and Four Lakes region and north... |
| Date: | May 1846 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored map of southeastern Wisconsin showing the counties of Dodge, Jefferson, Rock, Walworth, Racine (including modern-day Kenosha County), Waukesha... |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin became the thirtieth state in 1848. Drawn that same year, this map shows township lines, roads, villages, mills, railroads, prairies, swamps, can... |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Published in Germany a year after Wisconsin entered statehood, this map shows prairies, swamps, lakes, mounds, limestone deposits, and lead and copper mine... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the public schoolhouse, which features a bell tower and two arched entrances. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Mount Vernon from the a grassy hill. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | An ink on paper map of Milwaukee County and the eastern portion of Waukesha County that shows the townships of Oak Creek, Franklin, Greenfield, Wauwatosa,... |
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