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Scenery of the upper Mississippi



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  • Scene on the upper Mississippi

    Scene on the upper Mississippi

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    Image of the steamboats Baltic and Diana sailing up the Mississippi River at night; raft along a small dock being loaded with lumber near trees in the foreground, one additional steamboat on the river in the distance.

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  • [Indian Congress]

    [Indian Congress]

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    Image of groups of Native American Indians outside tipis and wigwams in traditional dress at the Indian Congress during the Trans-Mississippi Exhibition held in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1898.

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  • Continental Fire Insurance Co. of New York

    Continental Fire Insurance Co. of New York

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    Image of a group of Native American Indians near tipis gesturing towards bison and horses nearby in an advertisement for Continental Fire Insurance Company of New York.

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  • Stock label: Native American woman carrying water pot on head in Indian village

    Stock label: Native American woman carrying water pot on head in Indian village

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    Image of three Native American women in an Indian village, one carrying a pot of water on her head, another weaving a basket, and another smoking a peace pipe, Indian blanket, canoe in a stream, tipis and mission in background; three oranges with leaves in right corner.

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  • John C. Fremont

    John C. Fremont

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    Image of a three-quarter-length portrait of explorer, politician, financier, and military leader John C. Fremont standing with hat in hand outdoors near a tree; Native American Indians on horseback, tipis, and mountains in background at right.

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  • Levee scene on the Mississippi

    Levee scene on the Mississippi

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    Image of African American men sitting on a dock along a levee dancing, singing, playing music on a banjo, and playing cards in the foreground with a bustling port in the background showing horse-drawn wagons, cargo in barrels, crates, and bales being unloaded from steamboats lined up along the Mississippi River, including ones presumably named "Jacob Strader" and "Memphis"; some warehouses appear to say "St. Paul."

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