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| Date: | 01 1883 |
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| Description: | Photograph of an engraved image showing two women attempting to escape the burning Newhall House by lowering themselves from a window using blankets tied t... |
| Date: | 01 1883 |
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| Description: | Photograph of an engraved image showing fire fighters rescuing a woman from the burning Newhall House. |
| Date: | 01 1883 |
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| Description: | Photograph of an engraved image showing people clinging to a windowsill on the Newhall House attempting to escape the burning building. One woman in the fo... |
| Date: | 01 1883 |
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| Description: | Engraving showing people attempting to locate loved ones among the bodies recovered from the Newhall House fire. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | View across field towards a farm, with farmhouse, barn, outbuildings, and fences. The photograph appeared in Joseph Schafer's 1932 book The Wisconsin Le... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Perry Lutheran Evangelical Church, which is misspelled in the caption as "Parry Norw. Luth. Church." The photograph was taken some time between... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Exterior of church, which is partially obscured by trees. |
| Date: | 02 1881 |
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| Description: | Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of fifteen well-dressed men and women. Caption identifies them as members of the Pecan Club, attending the Su... |
| Date: | 08 30 1884 |
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| Description: | View along the Lake Monona shoreline towards the Tonyawatha Spring Hotel. A crowd of people are standing on the pier with several sailboats. On the shore i... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Some of the Old-Timers on the Photo. Steamers: Petosky (on stocks), Muskegon, Corona, A.D. Hayward, City of St. Joe, Lotus, J.F. Dayan, Gra... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Six deer hunters are posing with their rifles, dogs, and nine killed deer hanging from a buck pole supported by log structures on the left and right. |
| Date: | 07 03 1886 |
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| Description: | Nineteen men and women are posing outdoors in front of tents in a forest clearing. At the bottom the caption reads: "Jänta å ja" Camp at Livesey's Spring, ... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | View towards a wooden walkway over a stone wall, perhaps a spillway, crossing a body of water. A bridge is in the background. |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Collage of portraits for 45 different people. Caption on reverse lists the lecturers: 1. Rev. Talmage; 2. E. Yates; 3. "Eli Perkins"; 4. "Josh Billings"; 5... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a woman and man posing together. The woman is wearing a dark-colored dress and is sitting on a prop stone... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a woman posing in a studio, leaning on what appears to be a framed picture on a decorated easel. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait of a woman with her head turned to the left in profile. She is wearing a dark-colored lace dress. |
| Date: | 03 04 1881 |
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| Description: | Men posing sitting in snowbanks. A sign over the sidewalk along the left side reads: "Sheboygan Tribune." Written on back of stereograph: "Center St. looki... |
| Date: | 03 04 1881 |
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| Description: | Several people are standing on a large snow bank on 8th Street, looking north after the big snowstorm of 1881. Signs hanging over the sidewalk attached to ... |
| Date: | 03 04 1881 |
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| Description: | View down snowy sidewalk towards men posing in snowbanks. Another man is standing and is carrying a shovel across his shoulders. A sign over the sidewalk r... |
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