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| Date: | 1841 |
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| Description: | View across the river towards several residences on the opposite shoreline. |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | View of Manitowoc from the north side. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Roman Catholic community of St. Nazianz. |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | View of the gorge at St. Croix with a boat and multiple figures visible in the background. |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | View of Cheever's Mill, located on the St. Croix River. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Buildings along Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | Fort Crawford (the second site, with buildings of 1829-?), on the east bank of the Mississippi River, about 2 miles above the mouth of the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | A view of Fort Crawford (the second site and buildings of 1829-?). |
| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | American Fur Company with both Mission churches. Sketch purportedly by a Native American youth. Probably an overpainted photographic copy enlargement. Pape... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | A watercolor painting depicting a distant view of the city of Madison, circa 1850-1851. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | A full circle panorama as it would be seen from the top of the Wisconsin State Capitol. This painting was based on photographs perhaps taken by Edward Niel... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | View of St. John's Catherdral with the original tower. |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | "Three views in a short space show the peaceful appearance of what is now a busy paper mills center . . . [One of them] is Little Chute, one of the pleasan... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | " . . . The first in their series was not an 'improvement' but a view of the Green Bay settlement, looking downstream. From a simulated rustic fence corner... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | " . . . At Grand Chute stood the young settlement of Appleton. Although only a few years old, it already boasted a college, named, as was the village itsel... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | ". . . At De Pere they stopped on the west shore for a broad sketch of the dwellings clustered on both sides of the river. The distant dam, the mills, ware... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | ". . . The upper Grand Chute was the last of the 'improvements' paintings signed by Brookes and Stevenson. Yet there were two more vital links in the Fox R... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | "After painting a number of Fox River scenes, "the artists continued their way to Fond du Lac, at the south end of Lake Winnebago, where they found some mo... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Main Street in Bayfield in 1870 with four cows standing in the street. |
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