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| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View across unpaved Main Street, with storefronts on the right, including a restaurant and meat market. Caption reads: "Main Street". |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Simmons residence, with people sitting on the porch and standing near the front entrance. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View down pier towards shoreline and building at Lake Geneva at Montague's and Porter's resort, later W.F. Furbecks, at the site of Fontana Park or Buena V... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | View of the First Methodist Church. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | View of Fountain City. The text on the photographs reads: "Principal Depot for Minnesota Views, at Martin's Art Gallery, 264 Third Street, St. Paul" and th... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View of buildings in an industrial area with a forest in the background. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Mississippi River stereograph, with a St. Jacob's Oil building in the distance. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of buildings in Glen Haven. Bluffs are in the background. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | View of the J.D. Doty office. Doty served as agent for John Jacob Astor in promoting the village of Astor, later renamed Green Bay. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Exterior of home and lawn on a summer day, with a forest in the background and a picket fence in the foreground. The house has a lookout on the roof. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | "Lawton's Folly," the home of Joseph Lawton, built in 1851, between De Pere and Ft. Howard. Joseph Lawton came from Pennsylvannia. This building no longer ... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Distant view of the cottage across the river, with reeds in the foreground. On the original site on the west side of the Fox River, before the restoration. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Fox River and South Washington Street, from the top of St. Willobrord's Church. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Washington Street and the Fox River and buildings nearby. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | View of Green Bay from the Fort Howard side of the Fox River. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking north toward the harbor with multiple buildings in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of South Jefferson and Doty Streets, showing the Albert Weiss and Platt Greene residences and the present location of the Columbus Club, Kell... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | View of Green Bay from the top of St. Willibrord's Church. A river can be seen in the background. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Southwest view of the Fox River and the waterfront. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of an industrial waterfront along the Fox River. |
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