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| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Twenty-one children are seated on wooden benches and the ground in front of a square frame house with a hip roof and cupola. The Reverend Erik Jensen (1841... |
| 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: | 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: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Men and boys stand in front of a wagon shop, probably in Edgerton, on Fulton Street. Wagons, wheels, yokes and farm implements surround them. A ramp behind... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking down Court Street in Janesville toward the west. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over river of Dodge Street in Janesville looking west. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | The Kimball and Lowell Hardware Store located on the corner of Franklin and Milwaukee Streets. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | The Lappin block, Ed. Carpenter, proprietor. Businesses on this block include: Bort, Baily & Co., Dry Goods and Carpets; A.F. Hall & Co., "The Reliable Jew... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | View down Madison Street with houses along sidewalk. Caption reads: "View on Madison Street." |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Looking northwest from the Methodist Episcopal Church, Main Street, with trolley track running down the center of the street. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Street looking west. In the foreground is a dog standing on a bridge. Signs on a building on the right read: "Furniture" and "Valley Chief Reaper... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View from along right side of bridge of Milwaukee Street looking east in Janesville. The Myers House is located at the top of the hill. There is a sign for... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | View from the south, with a railroad in the foreground, a river in the middle distance, and Janesville in the background. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Milwaukee Street. |
| Date: | 08 1898 |
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| Description: | The stables at the Milton House. The Milton House was a part of the Underground Railroad prior to the abolition of slavery. The house was built in 1845 by ... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | View from corner of storefronts. Horse-drawn vehicles and pedestrians are in the street. There is a water fountain with a cup in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Partial removal of railroad bridge over Rock River. A train is on a section not being removed in order to transport men and materials. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Right side view of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway locomotive engine no. 632. |
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