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Sketches of my travels

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Austrian painter Franz Holzlhuber (1826-1898) came to the U.S. in 1856 on a tour and stayed four years. Residing first in Milwaukee, Holzhuber traveled widely in Wisconsin, Canada, and the Mississippi River Valley. He sketched dozens of scenes of his observations while travelling and published some in Harper's Monthly. He later used them in lectures and as sources for larger drawings when he returned to Austria in 1860. In addition to the sketches, Holzlhuber wrote a description of the drawings as well as the circumstances that produced them. The final translation of his description is provided here. It is a fairly idiosyncratic translation which can make Holzlhuber's text difficult to understand but also highly entertaining.
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