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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View across water towards men and boys swimming and splashing in the Mississippi River. Alma is in the background on the far shoreline. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking south over Fountain City and river. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the sternwheel steamer "E. Rutledge," owned by Weyerhaeuser & Denkmann's Rock Island Lumber Company, picking up a raft of logs at Be... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Man waving his hat in foreground with Alma, Wisconsin, visible in background across the Mississippi River. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | View of the Mississippi River from Alma. Caption reads: "Mississippi River. Ice Palace and Cyclone Views." |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Alma along Mississippi River, with bluffs along the horizon. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Mississippi River, with Alma in the distance, a typical river town which flourished in the 1850s. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Alma from the Mississippi River. Text on front reads: "Wisconsin Scenery". |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the upper Mississippi River. The text on the photograph reads: "From Whitney's Gallery, St. Paul, Minn." |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View of a mill, sluice and dam on Waumandee Creek. The mill was built by John Oschner in 1863. Two products produced by the mill were White Rose Flour and ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A view from a hill overlooking the town of Alma, on the banks of the Mississippi River, which is frozen. Several churches and residential houses are visibl... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Men on shoreline are returning logs with horses, which have been stranded on a sandbar, to the main channel of the Mississippi River. Beef Slough Company w... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Oblique view from the Mississippi River. Two young women are in a rowboat near the shoreline, and two young men are fishing in the river. Alma at the foot ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View of Alma across river from sandbar. A rowboat is on the sandbar, and on the right a father and child are standing posed each with one foot on a log. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Four men and one woman in a rowboat on the Mississippi River. In the background is the town of Alma at the foot of bluffs. The woman is holding an umbrella... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Christmas postcard of four men and one woman in a rowboat on the Mississippi River. In the background is the town of Alma at the foot of bluffs. The woman ... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | View of Alma from the Mississippi River, with wing dam on right. |
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