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| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Composite of views of Muscoda including: Electric Light plant, Smalley House, St. John Catholic Church, Lover's Lane, Muscoda Public School, Wisconsin Aven... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over rooftops of town. Handwritten message reads: "Arrived here today 4 p.m. Will work at mines about 2 miles from here. Expect to go to Plat... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of mining operations. Caption reads: "'A Busy Corner' of Platteville." |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | A straw lead furnace, an open hearth furnace where lead sulphite (Galena) was roasted. Located on the Rountree branch of the Little Platte River, Richard S... |
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| Description: | A view of the State Teacher's College. Snow is on the ground and covering the trees. The State Teacher's College and the Mining College in Platteville merg... |
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| Description: | A view of the State Normal School, founded in 1866. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A view of a tree on the grounds near a building at the State Mining School. This maple tree was planted in 1869 by, Professor Charles H. Allen, Professor D... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A view of the plaque on a maple tree outside the State Mining School. It reads: "Planted April 1869 by Professor Charles H. Allen, Professor Duncan McGrego... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | The John H. Rountree House, built in 1854. According to "The History of Wisconsin" (Vol. I, 1973), "The rise of the settlement at Platte Mounds was indisso... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Post Office. Caption reads: "Post Office, Platteville, Wis." |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | View of the Mitchell-Rountree house (the first). |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | The Mitchell-Rountree house, built in 1837 by Samuel Mitchell of Virginia whose daughter, Mary Grace Mitchell, was married to John H. Rountree, the founder... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View across lawn towards the Mitchell-Rountree house. People are standing on the front steps of the house on the far right. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Main Street, looking East, Platteville,,[sic] Wis." |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View looking down sidewalk on the left of Main Street. A sign in the foreground reads: "Iowa Oil Co." |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Hadley Mill on the Little Platte River, seven miles southwest of Platteville in the Town of Paris. |
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