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| Date: | 06 25 1910 |
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| Description: | The wreck of the sternwheel excursion, J.S., after being destroyed by fire. Caption reads: "This wreck of the Str. J.S. Burned June 25, 1910, now ly... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline of University of Wisconsin-Madison buildings across Lake Mendota from Carroll Street. The Armory (Red Gym or Old Red), a boathouse, an... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a railroad train crossing a bridge over the famous White River near Ashland. In the foreground is an open automobile crossing the ri... |
| Date: | 07 01 1862 |
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| Description: | "Malvern Hill." The site of the battle in a half-toned photograph from a book. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the side-wheel steamship "Thomas Powell," probably in southern waters. Industrial buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the site of the Confederate surrender in 1865. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Earthwork four miles southwest of Racine, used during the Civil War in light artillery target practice to stop solid shot. Joseph Cooper is waving the flag... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Reception headquarters of the George H. Thomas Post No. 2 of the Grand Army of the Republic at the 20th National Encampment, Alcazar Theatre. |
| Date: | 08 28 1913 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a reunion of Company K, 8th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, on the Trautwein farm. The company on this occasion were the guests of Mr. And ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Third Wisconsin Civil War veterans' reunion, posed on the lawn in front of the Beloit Public Library. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Jefferson Davis sitting in a chair on the porch of his residence. |
| Date: | 04 1902 |
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| Description: | Confederate veterans at the Vicksburg Surrender Monument, on the occasion of decorating Union soldiers' graves. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Grave markers at the Vicksburg National Cemetery. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | An albumen stereograph of a monument to the Confederate dead, in the shape of a stone pyramid with steeply pitched sides. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Crew of river drivers moving logs off of rocks below a dam probably on the Wisconsin River. |
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| Description: | A collision of a freight train with an excursion train on the Chicago and North Western Railway, resulting in six deaths and at least 46 people injured. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View up sidewalk towards the Wisconsin State Capitol, with the North Pediment, called "Learning of the World, by the sculptor Attilio Piccirilli, just belo... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin farm scene, south of Lone Rock, but in Iowa County. A church can be seen on the left. The hills are the south bluffs of the Wisconsin River. |
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