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| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | Illustration of Chippewa and Sioux Indians battling each other at the Brule River. Wood engraving from Armstrong, "Early Life Among The Indians." |
| 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: | 1842 |
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| Description: | A Menominee village as depicted by Francois, Comte de Castelnau, a French naturalist and diplomat who visited the Green Bay area about 1838. The detailed, ... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Hunters using rifles to kill buffalo (Plate 11). "This plate represents the familiar mode of procuring meat, practiced by all the voyageurs on the Missou... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Indians on snowshoes hunting buffaloes immobilized by snow (Plate 15). "In this plate is illustrated the mode alluded to in the preceding page, of the In... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Indian with rifle in prone position hunting antelope (Plate 20). "The antelope of the prairies and Rocky Mountains of America, which I believe to be diff... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Choctaw Indians performing dance (Plate 22). "As I have mentioned in former pages that for nearly all their hunts, wars, or games, the events of which th... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Large group of Indians engaged in the game of lacrosse (Plate 23). "Having in the two former illustrations and their chapters, explained to the readers t... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Mandan Indians engaged in archery competition (Plate 24). "The meeting represented here is something like that of an Archery Club in the civilized world,... |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a drawing of an Indian aiming his bow and arrow, with one foot standing on an earlier kill. |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | A young woman looks out her arched window with a bird cage hanging outdoors. |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | Illustration of a young couple romancing by a well as another young woman watches from behind. |
| Date: | 1847 |
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| Description: | An unhappy looking bride is seated in a chair looking out the window as another woman sits on the floor holding her hand. A third woman looks on angrily. |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Drawing of two slave catchers pointing guns at two runaway slaves. |
| Date: | 1846 |
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| Description: | A view of the college and surrounding green space at Saint Clara Academy. Saint Clara Academy moved to River Forest, Illinois in 1922, and since 1970 has g... |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card with flowers and gold and white flourishes. Text at bottom reads: "Ever Thine." It has been mounted to a piece of paper and a silhouet... |
| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | Menominee war dance, as depicted by Francois, Comte de Castelnau, a French naturalist and diplomat who visited Green Bay, Wisconsin about 1838. This detail... |
| Date: | 1846 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of Betsy H. Smith, left, with her daughter, Laura, right,and son, George. The three are the mother, sister and brother of Rosella... |
| Date: | 1846 |
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| Description: | A wooden building enclosed by a fence. Caption on rear of photograph reads: First Church In Sauk-Prairie-Roxbury Region - 1846. Reproduction of an early ph... |
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