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| 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: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View of Grace Episcopal Church from West Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Old Mission Inn and boats on shoreline of Lake Superior on Madeline Island. The Old Mission Inn had numerous modifications over the years. It was razed in... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Washburn Observatory. Hill, trees and fields are in the background. A man is standing near a small obs... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | North Hall. Caption reads: "Academy North Hall". |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | View of the Mississippi River from Alma. Caption reads: "Mississippi River. Ice Palace and Cyclone Views." |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Mississippi River, with Alma in the distance, a typical river town which flourished in the 1850s. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Alma from the Mississippi River. Text on front reads: "Wisconsin Scenery". |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Alma. The Sherman House is in the left foreground. Houses are above and in the background are bluffs. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Flour and grist mill built on Green Lake Prairie and later moved to Alto. It stood about 50 feet tall and 24 feet wide. |
| 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: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill of the freight steamer "Cornucopia" loading hides at the Hammond Brothers warehouse, with Lawrence University buildings on the hill... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Overlook of the river, and a building near the dam from a steep hillside. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View from a hillside of either houses or factory buildings on the Fox River near a dam. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Text reads: "Masonic Hall at the corner of College Avenue and Oneida Street; built in 1855 by Theodore Conkey, it burned in 1874. The Zuehlke Building was ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a Methodist Church with a lawn, trees and a fence. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View of the Reeve residence on the corner of Lawrence and Onieda Streets. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | A man is posing in front of the corner entrance to the E.M. Maurer Bookstore. Above the corner entrance is a turret, and a small child is looking out of on... |
| 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... |
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