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Description: | Target shooting on the east lawn of Villa Louis. Nina S. Dousman is on the extreme right of the image. |
Date: | 1898 |
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Description: | Group of people on the front porch, weighing the guests. A visit was considered successful if the guests weighed more when they left. |
Date: | 1872 |
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Description: | Alleged to be the earliest known view of St. Mary's Institute, which later became St. Mary's College. One-half of a stereograph. |
Date: | 1940 |
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Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting construction of the first Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1816. In the painting, several o... |
Date: | 1940 |
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Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting the surrender of Black Hawk at Fort Crawford in 1832. |
Date: | 1940 |
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Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting the Winnebago attack on the Gagnier homestead in 1827 and the killing of Registre Gagnier. The homestead w... |
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Description: | Diorama in the Milwaukee Public Museum depicting Black Hawk's surrender on August 27, 1832 at Fort Crawford in Prairie du Chien. |
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Description: | A bow view of the Sidney. Later named the Washington. |
Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | Elevated view of Artesian Well, located near the intersection of Wisconsin Street and South Minnesota Street (since renamed Wacouta). It was dubbed by some... |
Date: | 10 19 1911 |
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Description: | Pilot Hugh Robinson and his Curtiss hydroplane at Prairie du Chien during a flight that was intended to be the first all the way down the Mississippi River... |
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Description: | Aline W. Hazard, WHA Homemakers program director, visits a sorghum mill in Prairie du Chien for her on-the-spot reporting of unusual Wisconsin industries. |
Date: | 10 19 1911 |
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Description: | Aviator Hugh Robinson and his Curtiss flying boat on the Mississippi River. |
Date: | 10 19 1911 |
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Description: | A crowd gathered on the Mississippi River shoreline near Prairie du Chien. They are watching pioneer aviator Hugh Robinson taxi his Curtiss flying boat. |
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Description: | Elevated view of the pile-pontoon railroad bridge across the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien. The bridge was built and patented by John Lawler in 187... |
Date: | 1864 |
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Description: | Fort Crawford was decommissioned in 1856, having outlived its usefulness as a frontier post. During the Civil War, however, it functioned as a military ho... |
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Description: | A man and woman golf on the west lawn of Villa Louis. They are probably members of the Dousman family. |
Date: | 1922 |
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Description: | View of St. Mary's Institute in 1872, and a view of St. Mary's College in 1922. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Exterior view of the Prairie du Chien Sanitarium. Established in 1903, it became a general hospital in the 1930s. A group of people are posing on the lawn ... |
Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | D. Scanlon house with small, enclosed porch, on N. Beaumont Street. |
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Description: | Quarter plate daguerreotype of the Cornelia Vedder house. A woman is standing on the porch. Described as the house "where George Winnie, a conductor on the... |
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