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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | D.F. Brown house during the spring or summer, with two elm trees, three children and a woman. A picket fence runs along the sidewalk in the front of the ho... |
| Date: | 11 01 1896 |
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| Description: | Canal Street less than a year before a fire swept through and destroyed many of these buildings on March 22, 1897, resulting in a loss of about $45,000. Pr... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of street corner, with two buildings that have been destroyed by a fire, a brick fence, and some trees. There is a wooden cart in th... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | View of Bloomington, with a man in the foreground looking over the vista. |
| 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: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Geiger house, residence of John Geiger. His son, Ferdinand A. Geiger, was a Federal District Judge in Milwaukee from 1912 through the 1930s. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Wind powered stone grist mill. Two men stand on a wood balcony near the open doorway of the windmill. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Martin H. Meyer's birthplace. Reproduced from a lead pencil sketch made in 1870. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill of Grand Avenue. A young boy is posing against a large tree in the right foreground looking out over the town. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Chippewa Falls during the winter. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Chippewa Falls seen through trees. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Chippewa Falls with a park and river in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Family portrait of the Porters, standing in front of their log cabin with a horse. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Collage of multiple views of buildings and stores in Crandon. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Black and white ink drawing of an old wooden well. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Hawks Tavern, also known as Hawks Inn, with men on the porch and trees in the yard on each side. |
| 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: | 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." |
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