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Filter: COLLECTION_NAME of Albertype Company photographs, circa 1880s-circa 1950
Filter: Year of 1800-1899
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of female students working in the fields with hoes. Behind them are college buildings. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Female students garden next to the Home Economics Practice House. The house has clapboard siding on its two stories and there is a porch on the front and b... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | A view of the student library and music room at Strayer Business College. Desks, chairs, and small bookcases with glass doors stand on patterned carpeting ... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | A view of the reading room at the College of the Sacred Heart. Sofas and tables stand around the room, and a piano is against the wall in the background. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A view of an outdoor seating area at Royal Poinciana Hotel. Numerous tables are arranged around the perimeter of a courtyard, each set with a tablecloth, p... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Seaside Inn. Automobiles are parked on the streets alongside the hotel and individuals sit on benches and walk nearby. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | A woman in a bathing suit stands on the beach and holds what appears to be a seashell. The ocean is in the background. This woman is contained within a she... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | A view of the left side of the Elephant Hotel, constructed in the shape of an elephant with small windows punctuating the side and a covered open-air obser... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Costumed students act out a scene from Cardinal's Play outdoors on a lawn near a wooded area at the College of Mount Saint Vincent. The college was founded... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Scene from Golden Ingots at the College of Mount Saint Vincent, founded by the Sisters of Charity of New York in 1847. Costumed students act outdoors in a ... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Ocean House hotel with men, women, and children posing in front of it. Another group of people are standing on the third story balcony... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | View across road toward the First Christian Science Church entrance and left side. Vertical siding covers the structure, and latticework and chevron stripe... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | View across water toward the sawmill and various outbuildings located on the Oconto River. Steam is rising from a large pipe over over the main building, a... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View of two lakeside cottage, which have docks and porches that overlook the lake. Caption reads: "Birch Walk, Kelly Lake, Wis." |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Large piles of logs waiting to be processed into lumber sit next to the Oconto River. In the background stand what appear to be piles of cut lumber. Captio... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of cottages along Kelly Lake's shoreline. Some of the buildings are two-story structures. Trees stand between the cottages and line the lake'... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View toward three cottages along the tree-lined shore of Kelly Lake at Underwood Point. Small docks with boats are along the shoreline. A wooden bench with... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | View across lawn toward the stone facade of St. Mary Academy. The arched main entrance is partially behind trees on the left. A bell tower sits in the midd... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | View across curving brick walkway in the lawn of North Campus at St. Mary Academy. A few structures are in the background, and a bench stands near the path... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | View across lawn toward a gazebo, section of a porch, and benches on the campus of St. Mary Academy. The lawn overlooks the Iowa Bluffs across the Mississi... |
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