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| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Beloit, with insets of Beloit College, Beloit High School, and Memorial Hall. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Janesville on the Rock River. |
| 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: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Family posing outdoors around a table in front of a frame house. There are two men with newspapers, girls with watermelon, and a woman on the porch of the ... |
| 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: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Group of men, women and children gathered in a hops field, possibly that of Paul Saavles. The women are wearing hoods. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | This is identified as the Jacob Larsen farm, but pictured are Ole Ashburn and his second wife seated in the yard with a table between them. The frame house... |
| 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: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Two men, one of whom is Halver Skavlem, and a woman, Gunil Skavlem, are posed in a yard. One man reads the "Western Rural", a newspaper dated August 14, 18... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | The Ashburn family sits around a table in their yard. Behind them is a frame house with plants on its porch, curtains visible in its windows, and a pump by... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | The Skavlem family is around the table at the home of Lars H. Skavlem. A cloth, books, a vase of flowers and fruit are on the table. The two men on the r... |
| 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, from a distance, of Fulton Street in Edgerton. A church is in the distance. |
| 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: | 1875 |
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| Description: | "Mineral spring pavilion with visitors taking the waters." Seven adults, including a man in a top hat, five children and a woman are posing in a gazebo bui... |
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