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| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Home of Governor Cadwallader C. Washburn on Monroe Street at the east end of what is now the Edgewood College campus. Washburn is probably the man at left. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commercially successful reaper, a hor... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Norwegian family posing with their household possessions, in front of their home. The man dressed in military uniform is a Civil War veteran. Madison, Wisc... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of railroad tracks and several houses. Several railroad employees are doing repair work on the tracks, and one man is riding on a handcar. Be... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Nina Linn Sturgis Dousman, wife of H. Louis Dousman. Her love of fine furnishings, art and jewelry turned her home, Villa Louis, into a showca... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Portrait of James Garland Sturgis in his West Point(?) cadet uniform. Born January 24, 1854; son of Samuel Davis Sturgis I and younger brother of Nina Stu... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Buildings along Wisconsin Avenue lining a wide dirt road. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map after a fire destroyed a large area of the town. In memory of the Great Conflagration on April 28th, 1875. Taken from the North-Side. |
| 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: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Harold and Gunhild Mickelson with five of their daughters (Bertha Mickelson Bragger and her husband are standing on the right), in Section 23 of the Town o... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Family and farm implements in a field with farm buildings and haystacks in the background. |
| 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: | 1877 |
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| Description: | The Andrew Amundsen family is posing around a table adorned with a knit cloth. Andrew and his wife, Sarah, are in rocking chairs with cloths over the backs... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A family is sitting around a table with a cloth, vases and other objects on it. The man on the left is wearing a top hat, and a flower in his lapel. The tw... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A family is sitting around a table with a stereoscope on it. An upright and wing frame house with a stone foundation is behind them. The woman has a large ... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | A group of men posing in the yard of the Tonyawatha House, later the Tonyawatha Spring Hotel, with paddles and carpentry tools. The hotel is a frame bracke... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Moscow Laseselskab (the Moscow Library Association). Rasmus B. Anderson is probably in the group. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | John Parman's Blacksmith, Wagon & Carriage Shop. A large group of men, including workers in leather aprons, are standing with carriages and wagon wheels ou... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | View of Dr. Blake's (probably Samuel M.) house in Lodi or Prairie du Sac with a white picket fence in front of it. A man is standing in the grass in front ... |
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