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| Date: | 1831 |
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| Description: | Drawing of Fort Winnebago (near present-day Portage) that illustrated "Wau-Bun," Juliette Kinzie's memoir of her experiences on the early Wisconsin fronti... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Fairgrounds. In the foreground is a fence and dwellings. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | The Turner-Rusch house. Frederick Jackson Turner's family lived here until 1882 when it was purchased by the Rusch Family. Julia Rusch was later (1950) pri... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the Purdy house. Angled view from street towards the right side of the house, with a horse-drawn buggy. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | The Indian Agency House when the land was farmed by E.S. Baker of Portage, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the Columbia County Court House and Post Office. Caption reads: "Court House and Post Office at Portage, Wis." |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the Columbia County Jail. People are on the sidewalk near the entrance. |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | "After painting a number of Fox River scenes, "the artists continued their way to Fond du Lac, at the south end of Lake Winnebago, where they found some mo... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite studio portrait of a small child sitting in a chair. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View across road of the Clough house, residence of Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby. A man is standing and holding the hands of two young girls in front of the fenc... |
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