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| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | View from street through gates towards the Third Wisconsin State Capitol, the second in Madison, as seen from East Washington Avenue. The iron fence and st... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | The Opera House at the corner of Washington (now Main) and North Mill Streets. A sign at the back of the building reads: "Printing." A barber pole is in fr... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | A man posing in the open doorway of Julius Schadauer's tobacco shop at 101 State Street. The sign above the doorway reads: "Schadauer of Cigars Fact. No 62... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Engraving of an elevated view of Science Hall, Chemical Laboratory and Machine Shop on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Painting depicting Chippewa Falls and the first sawmill on the Chippewa River, built by Jean Brunet. The residence of H.S. Allen, one of the owners of the... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | The Grignon block house, "where the first Mass was said." |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View of the Vaughn Library building, built of brick in 1888 in the Romanesque Revival style. It was supported by retail, apartments and offices located on ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Congregational Church at the corner of Broadway and Cass Street, with the entrance at the corner. The church has stained glass windows and a steeple. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View of the courthouse, with bell tower. The building was built about 1870. The roof and lower part have since been changed. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1837 |
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| Description: | Fond du Lac Company House, built in 1836 and operated as an inn by Colwert Pier and his wife. Groups of Indians are in the yard outside the inn, and severa... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | The ornate interior of the Lucius Fairchild house at 302 South Wisconsin Avenue (renamed Monona Avenue in 1877). Built by Lucius' father Jairus Fairchild i... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | View of the gate to the Wisconsin State Capitol grounds, looking out to the street. On the left on the opposite side of the street is a building with a sig... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Cover of Billed-Magazin. featuring an engraved view of The Jefferson Liberal Institute. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Durkee House built by Charles Durkee in 1843. |
| Date: | 10 1844 |
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| Description: | A variant of a wood engraving dated October, 1844. Incorporated as the villige of Southport in 1841 (so-named because it was the southern-most natural harb... |
| Date: | 06 26 1869 |
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| Description: | An engraving from the Billed-Magazine of the First Congregational Church. |
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