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| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from across street of the People's State Bank decorated to honor the 250th anniversary of the discovery of the Mississippi River. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of show windows of the Prairie du Chien City Library. The cardboard backing reads: "Prairie du Chien, 1918." Reverse of the cardboard mountin... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | A cottage and trailer house community along a river. A Schlitz beer advertising is nailed to a tree and reads, "Move up to Quality / Schlitz / The Beer Tha... |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Prairie du Chien plant of Oscar Mayer & Co. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Union troops at Lawler Hall which was used as a U.S. military hospital during the Civil War. Originally built as the Brisbois Hotel in 1857, it was given f... |
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| Description: | Page from photo album showing Nina S. Dousman and three sisters posed outdoors while hiking in a coulee, north of town. Nina is seated and reading. Three o... |
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| Description: | The Villa Louis, also known as Dousman Mansion, in an aerial view. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | View across lawn toward the stone facade of St. Mary Academy. The arched main entrance is partially behind trees on the left. A bell tower sits in the midd... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | View across curving brick walkway in the lawn of North Campus at St. Mary Academy. A few structures are in the background, and a bench stands near the path... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | View across lawn toward a gazebo, section of a porch, and benches on the campus of St. Mary Academy. The lawn overlooks the Iowa Bluffs across the Mississi... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | A view of Sacred Heart College and the surrounding landscape. Each dormer window has a cross on its peak and the center of the building has a bell tower. |
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| Description: | View down dirt road toward a large, partially dead tree with two trunks in the center. Nearby on the right is a person in a horse-drawn carriage. There is ... |
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| Description: | Boys play a baseball game while a large crowd of spectators watches from the sidelines in the background in front of three stone buildings. The building on... |
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| Description: | The former Astor (American Fur Trading Company) post building, now a museum of local history and fur trading history. There is a sign reading: "The Riversi... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the Artesian Well near the intersection of Wisconsin and Minnesota (later renamed Wacouta) Streets. The following is printed on the back of ... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the Artesian Well near the intersection of Wisconsin and Minnesota (later renamed Wacouta) Streets. The following is printed on the backside... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of John Lawler's pile-pontoon railway bridge over the Mississippi River. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph looking northeast from Case's Block. |
| Date: | 1820 |
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| Description: | This map displays the plan for claiming various settlement zones in the Prairie des Chiens area in 1820. It shows Fort Crawford and 87 confirmed and unconf... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | An exterior view of the Villa Louis, built by H. Louis Dousman in 1870. |
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