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Open Hearth Lead Furnace

Date: 1872
Description: Galena (lead sulfide) was melted at this open hearth furnace owned by Richard Straw and Company on the Roundtree Branch of the Little Platte River. The men...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Lancaster, Grant County, Wis. Looking North West

Date: 1875
Description: Bird's-eye map of Lancaster, with inset of Monument for the Soldiers of Grant County.
Map or Atlas

Muscoda, Grant Co., Wis.

Date: 1879
Description: Bird's-eye map of Muscoda.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye of Platteville, Grant County, Wis. Looking North East

Date: 1875
Description: Bird's-eye map of Platteville.
Photograph

View of Bloomington

Date: 1873
Description: View of Bloomington by the pioneer photographer of the village, Frank Witcomb, sometime after 1873. There are buildings identified in the foreground on bot...
Photograph

Blacksmith Wanamaker

Date: 1870
Description: Ferrotype/tintype of a studio portrait of Blacksmith Wanamaker and an unidentified man standing on either side of an anvil. The man on the left is holding ...

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