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Swimming in the Mississippi River

Date: 1890
Description: View across water towards men and boys swimming and splashing in the Mississippi River. Alma is in the background on the far shoreline.
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Mississippi River View

Date: 1902
Description: Hand-colored Mississippi River view with steamboat and rowboat in the river.
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Young Girls Playing with Dolls

Date: 
Description: Six young girls playing with dolls on a porch.
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Bartenders

Date: 
Description: Bartender couple pose behind bar at Rose's Bright Spot on Highway 35, south of Fountain City.
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Liberty Street in Fountain City

Date: 1895
Description: View looking east on Liberty Street from Shore Drive. In the foregound is the F. Bohri & Son Clothing store, and behind it is a store selling "Drugs, Medic...
Map or Atlas

Alma, County Seat of Buffalo County

Date: 1880
Description: Alma was platted and settled in 1855, on a narrow strip of land between high bluffs and the Mississippi River. Its location made it a popular shipping cent...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of the Village of Alma, Buffalo Co., WI

Date: 1877
Description: Bird's-eye panorama of Alma, from "An Illustrated Historical Atlas of Buffalo and Pepin Counties."
Map or Atlas

Panoramic View of Fountain City, Buffalo County, Wisconsin

Date: 1880
Description: Bird's-eye map over the Mississippi River of Fountain City. Paddle steamers and steamboats are on the river, and bluffs are in the background.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of the Village of Mondovi

Date: 1877
Description: Bird's-eye map of Mondovi.
Postcard

Fountain City

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of Fountain City, with bluffs in the background on the left. Caption reads: "Fountain City, Wis."
Photograph

Overlooking Fountain City

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view looking south over Fountain City and river.
Photograph

Beef Slough

Date: 1880
Description: Man with a pole standing at the Beef Slough.
Photograph

Railroad Tracks Flooding

Date: 04 21 1965
Description: View down flooded railroad tracks of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad by the Mississippi River. There are houses on the left, and in the backgroun...
Photograph

Feeding a Calf

Date: 1900
Description: Winter scene with Bertha Gesell feeding a calf from a pan.
Photograph

Betsey Busied by Bossy's Butter

Date: 1905
Description: Woman churning butter.
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Betsy's Abode

Date: 1905
Description: A woman poses in front of her log cabin with her dog.
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Bossy's Baronial Barn

Date: 1905
Description: Log cabin barn and haystack.
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Betimes Betsy Bethinks On The Bible

Date: 1905
Description: Woman reading the bible outdoors while seated in a chair.
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Bossy and Betsy

Date: 1905
Description: Woman milking her cow.
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Bossy's Bibacious Bouncing Baby

Date: 1905
Description: Woman feeding calf from a bucket.

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