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| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Sarah Fairchild Dean Conover, sister of Civil War hero and governor Lucius Fairchild, reclines on a sofa in her home at 424 North Pinckney Street. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Caption: "Stage driven by William C. Alden stopping in front of Coon Valley store on the route between Viroqua to Muscoda and La Crosse. Alden drove the st... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Group of men, with women passengers, poling canoes through a marshy stretch of water on the Brule River-St. Croix River portage between Lake Superior and t... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Young woman on a driftwood stump, standing at the shoreline with what is probably Lake Michigan behind her. She is wearing a long skirt and a blouse, with ... |
| Date: | 12 18 1890 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking down at homestead applicants waiting in line for 2-3 days in winter cold before a window in the Marathon County Court House, Dec. 18-... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Waist-up carte-de-visite of "Aunt Betsy Chamberlain." She is wearing a dark dress and a white cap tied under her chin. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | View across lawn of the residence of Lucius Fairchild, in Madison. A woman is standing outdoors near the entrance. A fence surrounds the yard of the house,... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite studio portrait of a small child sitting in a chair. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a hat, high-collared blouse, jacket, and long skirt sits in a rowboat while rowing a small boat, presumably on Lake Mendota. A cat sits at ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Two men in a small office, probably a railroad station. On the right is a map on the wall, and below it is a Herring Hall Marvin safe. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Farmers with their loads waiting to ship on train number 40 at Colfax, Wisconsin. "An everyday occurrence at 3:50 pm during September and October." |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of Oconomowoc. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Man wearing "stove-pipe" hat, standing looking out over a lake. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over De Pere. In the foreground is the De Pere News Office and Post Office building. Behind it people are walking on the bridge over the Fox ... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Albert Ludley Tuttle of Baraboo, standing with his grandchildren and grown sons with farm equipment and horses in a field of young trees. In the field in t... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Brodhead Mandolin Club. The men are wearing suits and neckties, and all the women wear long white dresses. There are mandolins, as we... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Mary C. Gates of Chicago, later Mrs. George Walter Oakley of Madison. From the Hawley and Oakley family collections. G.W. Oakley, 1... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | "Society Room" at Downer College. The view from the back shows chairs lined up in rows, a chandelier hanging from the ceiling, and a piano against the wall... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | "Recitation Room" at Downer College. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Lakeside entrance exterior stairway of an elaborate residence at Lake Geneva. |
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