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Notes from Library of Congress:
- Caption from negative sleeve: Picket station of Colored troops near Dutch Gap Canal, Nov. 1864.
- Two plates form left (LC-B811-2553B) and right (LC-B811-2553A) halves of a stereograph pair.
- Corresponding…

Diagram showing the location of artifacts excavated from Abby Miller's house in Miller Grove.

Illustration shows John A. Logan standing at center, holding a paper that states "No Interference with Slave-Hunters!", and looking over his left shoulder at two slave hunters rounding up a family of fugitive slaves, a similar scene is repeated in…

Photograph of a sixty gallon kettle used by Conrad Will to make salt on the Big Muddy River. It was transported from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, around 1815. Posing with the kettle is Will's grandson, Edward Worthen.

Illustration of a fur trader with his Native American bride and her tribe, painted by Alfred Jacob Miller.

In a famous council on April 27, 1763, Pontiac urged listeners rise up against the British. 19th century engraving by Alfred Bobbett.

Engraved illustration of a Kaskaskia Indian from a drawing by General Georges-Henri-Victor Collot, 1796.

Illustration of Col. George Rogers Clark's conference with the Indians at Cahokia.

Part of a cartouche from William Faden, "A map of the Inhabited Part of Canada from the French Surveys; with the Frontiers of New York and New England", 1777.

Portrait painting of Shadrach Bond, owned by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.