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| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | View of Science Hall on the University of Wisconsin Madison campus from the southwest. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | View across Park Street of Science Hall at the base of Bascom Hill on the University of Wisconsin Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Washburn Observatory on the University on Wisconsin-Madison campus, with pedestrians on the surrounding grounds. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Illustrated view of the plan for University of Wisconsin of University Hill, Bascom Hill, area. |
| Date: | 05 15 1897 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway yards looking northwest. The elevator of the Northern Grain Company is in the middle distance. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Old Mission Inn and boats on shoreline of Lake Superior on Madeline Island. The Old Mission Inn had numerous modifications over the years. It was razed in... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Washburn Observatory. Hill, trees and fields are in the background. A man is standing near a small obs... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | North Hall. Caption reads: "Academy North Hall". |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Alma along Mississippi River, with bluffs along the horizon. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Mississippi River, with Alma in the distance, a typical river town which flourished in the 1850s. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Flour and grist mill built on Green Lake Prairie and later moved to Alto. It stood about 50 feet tall and 24 feet wide. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View down College Avenue. Caption reads: "College Ave. looking East from Oneida St., Appleton, Wis." |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | The first electric street railway in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill of the freight steamer "Cornucopia" loading hides at the Hammond Brothers warehouse, with Lawrence University buildings on the hill... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | The Grignon block house, "where the first Mass was said." |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Elevated illustration of the Lawrence College Campus with snow on the ground. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Text reads: "Masonic Hall at the corner of College Avenue and Oneida Street; built in 1855 by Theodore Conkey, it burned in 1874. The Zuehlke Building was ... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View of the Reeve residence on the corner of Lawrence and Onieda Streets. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | This is the H.W. Tenney house built by Charles Patten in the late 1870's, bought by Mr. Tenney in the spring of 1881. The people are, (left to right): Eva ... |
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