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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View looking down railroad tracks towards the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad locomotive #240, a type 4-4-0. On the right is a steep, rocky bank, ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad locomotive #280 at the Mineral Point depot. A group of people stand on the platform. The depot was built in 1857, ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Garden City Brewery, built in 1854. A person is on horseback in the yard below on the left, and a man is standing above them in an ope... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | The Gundry, Gray and Company store. The building was erected in 1841 and the dog on the sign was added in 1871. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View from sidewalk across unpaved High Street in Mineral Point. There is a large clock hanging above the sidewalk on the right. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the Martin and Toay Store in Mineral Point. A man is standing at the top of a stairway on the left side of the building. A group of people a... |
| Date: | 1838 |
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| Description: | The Odd Fellows Hall, built in 1837-1838, was the first to be built west of the Allegheny Mountains. The cornerstones were laid by Thomas Widley. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View over rooftops towards the primitive Methodist Church, which is surrounded by homes. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Joseph Spensley's smelting furnace, built in 1861. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | The U.S. Hotel was constructed in 1852 by Hugh Phillips to be used for mercantile purposes, but later transformed into the hotel. A group of people are sta... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Mineral Point from a carte-de-visite by the "practical photographer." |
| Date: | 1839 |
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| Description: | The deed is for sale of land under jurisdiction of Mineral Point Office in 1839 during the Van Buren administration. Frederick Sprague is from Oakland Coun... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of a Civil War Soldier. Three-quarter length portrait, perhaps Captain Edward Devlin, of Mineral Point, holding a sword. He s... |
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