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| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Halvor Skavlem (middle?), Gunil Olmstead Skavlem and a friend standing near the fence in front of Skavlem's frame home, with an unidentified man reading on... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Exterior view in winter of the Wisconsin School for the Blind. In the foreground is a gateway and fence. |
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| Description: | In the foreground, Erik Jensen, a minister with his hat in hand, shakes K. Doxstad's hand. Nearby a toddler pulls his own baby carriage. Two carriages, a b... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Twenty-one members of the Gullik K. Springen family, and one dog, in a farmyard with carriage, two-story stone house, wood barn and stone barn in the backg... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Family around table in yard. Four women, three men, and four children. The woman at far left is knitting, and on the far right is a dog. In the background ... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | View of the Koshkonong Hotel (later the Lakehouse Inn), a stone and brick hotel with a parapet roof on Maple Beach Road. People are in front of the inn. Ha... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | View of the Koshkonong Hotel (later the Lakehouse Inn), a stone and brick hotel with lots of windows, a parapet roof and a small structure on roof, on Mapl... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View across wooden platform of a brick high school on a hill surrounded by a fence. The school has a mansard roof and what appears to be a bell tower above... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | View from cornfield towards the Orfordville Lutheran Church, built in 1871-1872, surrounded by a white picket fence. The pastor at the time of the photogra... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of Memorial Hall at Beloit College. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the First Congregational Church. Behind the church are buildings in the downtown area. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the company buildings and residential area, with view of skyline. |
| Date: | 07 15 1925 |
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| Description: | Natesta farmhouse and cabin site in Clinton. |
| Date: | 07 15 1925 |
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| Description: | Natesta cabin site in Clinton. View down road, with a fence on the right, and fields on both sides. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Burdick homestead, which was originally made from logs. Built in 1842, it was said to be the first house west of the Rock River. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | The Bond historical site marker, marking the home where Carrie Jacobs Bond wrote "I Love You Truly." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Frances Willard School house built in 1853. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Jefferson School, built on the site of the first cemetery in Janesville. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A marker for the first log cabin built in the Janesville area, surrounded by several women. The cabin was built in 1835 by William Holmes, Joshua Holmes, J... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A marker for the first log cabin built in the Janesville area. The cabin was built in 1835 by William Holmes, Joshua Holmes, John Inman and George Follmer.... |
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