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| Date: | 05 27 1849 |
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| Description: | The wagon train crossing Laramie Creek in Wyoming. |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Fort Childs or New Fort Kearny in Nebraska Sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California on the Overland Trail (also known as the ... |
| Date: | 05 1849 |
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| Description: | Deserted Pawnee village in Nebraska. Sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California on the Overland Trail (also known as the Oregon... |
| Date: | 05 1849 |
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| Description: | Old Fort Kearney (Nebraska City). Sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California on the Overland Trail (also known as the Oregon Tr... |
| 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: | 06 24 1849 |
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| Description: | Original wash drawing of Fort Laramie, Wyoming (actually Fort John; see note below). Sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the west side of East Water Street. |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 1848 |
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| Description: | The first Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chien, with the Mississippi River in the foreground. Although dated 1830, this scene was actually painted by Henry Le... |
| Date: | 05 1849 |
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| Description: | Fort Leavenworth with trees, buildings and American flag. The fort was established by Colonel Henry Leavenworth to protect the Santa Fe trail against the I... |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | A hand-drawn plat map of Mineral Point, Wisconsin showing street layout and location of buildings. |
| 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: | 06 20 1849 |
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| Description: | The Black Hills sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California on the Overland Trail (also known as the Oregon Trail). |
| Date: | 06 30 1849 |
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| Description: | The Red Hills sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California on the Overland Trail (also known as the Oregon Trail). |
| Date: | 06 30 1849 |
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| Description: | The Black Hills sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California on the Overland Trail (also known as the Oregon Trail). |
| Date: | 06 30 1849 |
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| Description: | The Black Hills sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California on the Overland Trail (also known as the Oregon Trail). |
| Date: | 07 03 1849 |
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| Description: | Wilkins' wagons ferrying across the North Platte River in eastern Wyoming; sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California on the Ov... |
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