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Stove-top Range Finishing Room

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Description: View of a finishing room at the Malleable Iron Range Company. Workers finish and begin to pack the kitchen appliances. Caption on stereograph reads, "No. 1...
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Workers Finishing Production of a Stove-top Range

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Description: Workers at the Malleable Iron Range Company prepare to rivet the top of a stove. The top is fitted to the body of the stove with a powerful leverage system...
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Workers Assembling a Stove

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Description: Workers of the Malleable Iron Range Company assemble stove-top ranges. Caption on stereograph reads, "No 14. The building floor where eight different sets ...
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Workers Begin Assembling a Stove

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Description: Two workers at the Malleable Iron Range Company begin assembling a stove. Caption on stereograph reads, "No. 13 The beginning of the building process. The ...
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Workers in the Polishing Room

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Description: Workers prepare castings for further assembly at the Malleable Iron Range Company. Caption on stereograph reads, "No. 10 One section of the polishing room,...
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Workers in Warehouse

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Description: Two workers stock the warehouse at the Malleable Iron Range Company. Caption on stereograph reads, "No. 17 A corner of the warehouse where immense stocks a...
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Three Men Atop a Large Rock Formation

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Description: Three men stand atop a large rock formation. Caption on back of stereograph reads, "Three Chimneys 3 miles S. of Viroqua, Wis."
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Office of W.J. Young & Co. Steam Gang Saw Mill

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Description: Albumen print of the office of the W.J. Young & Co. Steam Gang Saw Mill. Several people are standing on the porch and a nearby wooden structure. A horse-dr...
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Bullis and Robbins, Livery Stable

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Description: Albumen print of a livery stable on an unpaved street with wooden boardwalks. The name of the stable is "Bullis and Robbins. Livery Stable." A sign on the ...
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Furniture Company Fire

Date: 04 12 1899
Description: Stereograph of a fire at the Choate-Hollister Furniture Company. A crowd, mostly men, are gathered to watch the effort to extinguish the fire. On the left,...
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Railroad Bridge After Cyclone

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Description: Stereograph of a demolished railroad bridge, most likely over the Rock River. Several men are standing on a horizontal section. In the bottom right corner,...
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Parade

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Description: Stereograph of an elevated view of a parade marching through town. Many of the participants are wearing uniforms, and some are carrying musical instruments...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Quarters of the Historical Society

Date: 1880
Description: Stereograph of librarian Daniel S. Durrie seated in the two-story high gallery that the Historical Society occupied in the old South Wing of the Wisconsin ...
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Syverud Farm

Date: 1967
Description: Stereograph of an elevated view of a farm. A man is sitting on the hill in the foreground with his arm on one knee, gazing at the view. There is a house, p...
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Hop Harvesting

Date: 1868
Description: Stereograph of an elevated view of hop harvesters, men, women and children, posing in a field at H.H. Potter's Hop Yard. Trellises of mature hops plants ar...
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Devil's Lake

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Description: Stereograph of an elevated view of Devil's Lake and the valley to the southeast. The valley may be the site of the old campground that has been moved farth...
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Side View of a Mine

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Description: Stereograph of the side view of a mine. Several horse-drawn wagons are waiting for loads with workmen. Hills of soil surround a flat area, and on the horiz...
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Florence Mine

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Description: Stereograph of an elevated view of a mining operation. Men are posing on the head frame/gallows frame over the pit. One man is perching on the top of the g...
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First Boarding House

Date: 1880
Description: Stereograph of a boarding house in the woods surrounded by a pole fence. Hand-written on the reverse: "First Boarding house of Florence, Erected March 1st,...
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Men, Railroad Tracks and Ore Carts

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Description: Stereograph of four men standing with ore carts. Two more men are standing on the left near a pile of square timbers, and another man is standing on the ri...

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