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| Date: | 1872 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Birds-eye drawing of Boscobel, Grant County, depicts street names and street layouts, houses, rivers and trees. A reference key at the bottom of the map sh... |
| Date: | 07 24 1862 |
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| Description: | Poster calling for the recruitment of volunteers from Grant County for the Union Army during the Civil War. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Lancaster, with inset of Monument for the Soldiers of Grant County. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Platteville. |
| Date: | 1829 |
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| Description: | Drawing of Cassville depicting a horse cart on the river's edge, with men and boats. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Platteville with twenty-two locations identified below image. Town square to left of center, behind Main Street. Area bordered by Lancast... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | D.F. Brown house during the spring or summer, with two elm trees, three children and a woman. A picket fence runs along the sidewalk in the front of the ho... |
| Date: | 11 01 1896 |
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| Description: | Canal Street less than a year before a fire swept through and destroyed many of these buildings on March 22, 1897, resulting in a loss of about $45,000. Pr... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of street corner, with two buildings that have been destroyed by a fire, a brick fence, and some trees. There is a wooden cart in th... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | View of Bloomington, with a man in the foreground looking over the vista. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Oval-framed view of the village, founded by Delos W. Taft, had its name changed to Bloomington in 1867. It had been named Tafton. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the lobby. Two men are standing along the back wall. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Geiger house, residence of John Geiger. His son, Ferdinand A. Geiger, was a Federal District Judge in Milwaukee from 1912 through the 1930s. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Mississippi River stereograph, with a St. Jacob's Oil building in the distance. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of buildings in Glen Haven. Bluffs are in the background. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View of the Jenckes house, home of Dr. J.L. Jenckes, physician and surgeon. |
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