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| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | College Avenue looking west from the corner of Morrison Street. The building on the left is the Adkins Building, at the right is the Johnston House. This w... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Camp Randall looking southwest. In April 1861, Governor Alexander Randall asked that the State Agricultural Society fairgrounds be converted into a militar... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Barstow Street looking north. View from the corner of Main Street, where the Eau Claire Book and Stationary Company later stood, looking n... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the exterior of the Second Ward School House, copied from the 1868 Madison City Directory. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Illustrated view of the plan for University of Wisconsin of University Hill, Bascom Hill, area. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Elevated illustration of the Lawrence College Campus with snow on the ground. |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | View of the Berlin High School, with children playing and people walking in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Oval-framed view of the village, founded by Delos W. Taft, had its name changed to Bloomington in 1867. It had been named Tafton. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Congregational church and surrounding buildings. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Family portrait of the Porters, standing in front of their log cabin with a horse. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Exterior of St. John Chrysostom Episcopal Church, with trees and a fence in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Garden City Brewery, built in 1854. A person is on horseback in the yard below on the left, and a man is standing above them in an ope... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Engraved print of the institute. The building has dome, and at the top is a wind vane. Caption reads: "Wisconsin Institute for the Deaf & Dumb." |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | View across unpaved road towards Randall Wilcox's home, with a fence along the sidewalk. A group of people are standing on the front porch. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | The first Eau Claire House built in 1856. It burned down in 1875. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Presbyterian Church, built in 1857, the first church building in Eau Claire. From a lithograph in the margin of an early map. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Front entry to the Wesleyan Seminary. It was built in the early 1860's on the site of the present High School building. |
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