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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: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Buildings along Wisconsin Avenue lining a wide dirt road. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | 2504 Forest Home Avenue. This hotel was situated on what was originally a plank road between Milwaukee and Muskego. It was designed after the Federal style... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of elevated view of Newhall House which was destroyed by fire in 1883. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Wisconsin State University, now the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Vignettes include Ladies Hall, South Dormitory, University Hall, As... |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the Capital house, a first-class hotel, copied from page 320 of Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Sketch of the Madison Women's Seminary on the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and East Johnson. The Madison Female Academy was a 19th century school for girls w... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Ore dock of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad, with a pile of logs in the foreground and docked ships in the background. |
| 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: | 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: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "5th Ave Antigo Wis Looking West Photo taken in 1882". View down road with felled trees lining both sides. Two men are posing further down t... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | The first electric street railway in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Elevated illustration of the Lawrence College Campus with snow on the ground. |
| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View across unpaved road towards a group of men standing on the platform at the train depot, with the Mineral Springs Hotel behind and to the right. Anothe... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View of the Park House Hotel (called the Commercial House before 1888), which burned down in 1892. Two people are sitting in a horse-drawn vehicle on the l... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Front view of Union High School with several people and a bicycle in the foreground. |
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