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| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Students and adults of the State School for the Blind pose for a group portrait in front of the building. |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 1868 |
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| Description: | George W. Hall, Jr., noted Evansville, Wisconsin, circus performer, as a young boy, holding a snake and wearing copper-toed boots. |
| 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: | Sleeping quarters at the State School for the Blind, with four single beds, a dresser, a chair, and a table. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Music recital room at the State School for the Blind with seven rows of seating, a piano and cello. Adorning the front wall is the Latin phrase "Lux Oritur... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Several looms in the instructional weaving facility at the State School for the Blind. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Interior of the State School for the Blind, perhaps a study or room for recreation. Included in the room are several tables with small models, a piano, and... |
| 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... |
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