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| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Half plate daguerreotype, with view across water of the Oshkosh, Wisconsin harbor showing the bridge over the Fox River. Moored on the opposite shore are t... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | People in a cemetery. Includes a view of the Scofield family monument. |
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| Description: | Cemetery monument of Charles Scofield. A woman dressed in black stands next to the monument. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A winter scene showing the courthouse, schoolhouse, and Congregational Church, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Municipal Market, which was built in 1910 but not operated successfully until July 1917 when it was run by a group of women from the D... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the school established by Mrs. Carl Schurz, which is often considered the first kindergarten in America. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A view down Main Street with horses and wagons tied at hitching posts. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Standing atop a special vehicle fitted with a body built to resemble a camera, Taylor found the ideal vantage point from which to cover a news event. The c... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Painting depicting Chippewa Falls and the first sawmill on the Chippewa River, built by Jean Brunet. The residence of H.S. Allen, one of the owners of the... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Barnyard scene on the Rollo Shurfelt farm with people milking the cows. Several horses are in the yard as well. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | View of the Johnson Wax Research and Development Tower under construction. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Workmen stand atop and in front of the remnants of the last remaining wing, the North Wing, of the third Wisconsin State Capitol building. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the west wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol building. A view of the fourth capitol with snow flocked trees and snow-covered lawn and side... |
| Date: | 08 09 1906 |
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| Description: | Demolition of the semi-circular West Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. In this picture the upper stories are gone, but behind the scaffolding the... |
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| Description: | View toward the north wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol, with the statue "Forward" in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A woman and child carry CORE picket signs protesting school segregation. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Workmen posing on the partially demolished dome of the third Wisconsin State Capitol, together with the hoist used for removing salvaged materials. This d... |
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| Description: | Fire fighting scene in which a man is at the top of a very tall ladder mounted on a hook and ladder fire truck. A group of men observe. A haze of smoke fil... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Peter Selb, Ben Dietrich, J.A. Lockwood, Matt Dietrich, and John Downing pose around the hand engine of the volunteer fire department. All but Selb were ch... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A steam fire engine of Milwaukee's Fire Company #2 drawn by three white horses racing to a fire. Prior motor driven fire equipment was a greater danger tha... |
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