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| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Austin E. Quinney with a dog. |
| Date: | 1843 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Ellen Clarinda Martin Kneeland. |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Jane Quinney, (born Ashotomay) wife of Austin E. Quinney, chief of the Stockbridge nation, and their daughter, Harriet. |
| 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: | 1845 |
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| Description: | A sixth-plate daguerreotype of Sophronia Newcomb Larkin, who married Benjamin Franklin Larkin. She is seated, and is wearing a dress with a white collar. H... |
| 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: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Redbird, a Winnebago Indian, following his surrender after an attack on Prairie du Chien in 1827. |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | Engraving depicting the defeat of Black Hawk by General Henry Atkinson at the Battle of Bad Axe on August 2, 1832. The engraving depicts Federal Regulars a... |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting of the second Fort Crawford, built 1829-1835. Two men are in a boat in the water in the foreground. The first Fort Crawford at Pra... |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait, possibly of Jane Fisher Rolette Dousman, wife of Hercules Dousman and mother of H. Louis Dousman. The photograph has been enh... |
| 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: | 1842 |
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| Description: | Watercolor of the Reid House, residence of William Reid at the head of Big Foot Lake (Lake Geneva). Two children and a woman are in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Photographic reprint of a daguerreotype of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commer... |
| Date: | 1847 |
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| Description: | Engraving of the McCormick Reaper Works as it appeared in 1847. The factory was located on the north bank of the Chicago River, east of the Michigan Avenue... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Cross section drawing of a Wisconsin lead mine. |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Sketch of the Madison Women's Seminary on the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and East Johnson. The Madison Female Academy was a 19th century school for girls w... |
| Date: | 1847 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Abraham Lincoln, from the original daguerreotype owned by his son, Robert T. Lincoln. |
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