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Open Casket of Margaret Brom

Date: 07 25 2007
Description: Open casket of Margaret Brom, during a wake at St. Bart's.
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Flock of White Turkeys

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Description: View of a flock of turkeys at a turkey farm. A worker can be seen pouring feed into large feed-buckets using a machine. The text on the side of the feed-bu...
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Steamboat Quincy Sinking in the Mississippi River

Date: 1906
Description: Group of people stand on pier near the Diamond Jo line steamboat Quincy, sunk in 1906. It was raised and renamed the J.S. There are men on th...
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View of the Bluffs

Date: 1890
Description: Stereograph view from the bluffs looking down over a town. A man is standing on the edge of the side of the formation, about halfway up, above treeline, an...
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Platform Mounds

Date: 1905
Description: Two of a series of three large platform mounds on the top of a high hill, overlooking the Mississippi and Black River valleys. Two young children are seate...
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Sunken Steamboat Quincy

Date: 1906
Description: View across water towards the steamer Quincy, of the Diamond Jo Line, partially sunken into the Mississippi River and listing to port near the shore...
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Pictograph Rock

Date: 1888
Description: View looking up at three men and a child on top of a cliff on which are petroglyphs. Caption on photograph reads: "Pictograph Rock. Rock bearing aboriginal...
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Pictograph Rock

Date: 1888
Description: View looking up at three men and a child on top of a cliff on which are petroglyphs. Pictograph Rock bearing aboriginal carvings, located on the south side...
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Fireplace Ruins

Date: 04 18 1888
Description: Stereograph of fireplace ruins on the site of an old French fort, possibly built by Nicholas Perrot. There is an electric pole behind the fireplace and a g...
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Perrot Marker Ceremony

Date: 09 06 1926
Description: Group portrait of attendees at a ceremony to place a marker on the former site of the French post of Nicolas Perrot. From left to right are Dr. Eben D. Pie...
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Ice on Old Man River

Date: 1961
Description: People ice fishing on the frozen Mississippi River. Hills can be seen on the shoreline in the background.
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Site of Perrot's Wintering Post

Date: 1880
Description: Elevated view of two men on a rock formation in the foreground, one man sitting, and one man standing holding a flag. Below them is the Mississippi River a...

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