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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Beloit with insets of Williams Engine Works, Eclipse Wind Engine Co., and John Foster & Co. Turtle Creek is in the lower section, and the... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Janesville on the Rock River. |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Milton Junction. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Like many southeastern Wisconsin villages, Edgerton was settled by Yankee immigrants in the 1830s. Though this view gives no indication of it, by 1871 toba... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Janesville from the High School building. |
| 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: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Rock Prairie Lutheran Church in Luther Valley. Note the model of the sailing ship hanging from the ceiling of the nave, a traditional pract... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Railroad wreck on the W.U. Road, Beloit, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the Edward Dwight Eaton Chapel at Beloit College. |
| 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." |
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