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Dean Family Sleighing

Date: 1852
Description: Quarter plate daguerreotype of Eliab Dean, an early Madison businessman, riding in a sleigh drawn by two horses with his wife Sarah Fairchild Dean and youn...
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Vesper, Wisconsin

Date: 1895
Description: View of several buildings and horse-drawn stagecoaches in Vesper.
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Excavation of Goose Effigy on University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus

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Description: Charles E. Brown (left), directs excavation of a goose effigy mound at the Willow Drive mound group on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Federal Bird Warden

Date: 1921
Description: J.M. Eheim posing outdoors with multiple birdhouses.
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Picking Oranges in Southern California

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Description: Three men picking oranges in an orchard. Two of the men use ladders to pick the fruit, and another stands on the ground nearby. Caption reads: "Picking Ora...
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Picking Oranges in Southern California

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Description: Three men are shown picking oranges in an orchard. Two of the men use ladders to pick the fruit, and another stands on the ground nearby. Caption reads: "P...
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Alfalfa Crop

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Description: Several agricultural workers are shown stacking alfalfa. The alfalfa is being loaded onto a horse driven wagon. In the distance, stacking machinery is bein...
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Boys Undressing to Go Swimming in the Mississippi River

Date: 1900
Description: Boys undressing to go swimming in the Mississippi River. Alma, Wisconsin is across the river in the background.
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Webb TB Album: A Pair of Spectacles?

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Description: Two identical cut-out images (one accented with red coloring) of two women in bathing suits and caps posing on a path surrounded by foliage, from a scrapbo...
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Louis Schoen's Old Lager, Label

Date: 1944
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Louis Schoen's Old Beer Lager, Quality has No Substitute, Brewed and Bottled by the ...
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Young Sigrid Schultz

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Description: Young Sigrid Schultz with her mother in Berlin, at what appears to be an open-air restaurant. They are both fashionably dressed in fine hats and dresses.
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Beekeeping Class

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Description: Beekeeping class in progress. All participants are wearing protective bee veils and hats, and some are wearing gloves. A crate or hive box in the backgroun...
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Art Kehl with Woman Wearing Bee Dress

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Description: Art Kehl is standing outdoors with a pipe in his mouth and is handing a matching hat to an unknown young woman in a dress decorated with bees. Located in R...
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Charles M. Baker Residence

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Description: Quarter plate ambrotype exterior view of the Charles Minton Baker residence in Lake Geneva. The home was built in 1854. The house and grounds are shown fro...
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People Riding Zebus

Date: 1906
Description: Man and a woman riding on zebu cattle, with fields and a mountain in the background. The people, place, and date of the photograph are unknown. The man and...
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William O. and Alma Schmidt Petersen

Date: 08 1929
Description: William Otto Petersen sits on his mother's lap as they ride inside a passenger launch on Geneva Lake. One of William's older brothers sits on the right. Th...
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The "Columbia" Steamboat at Bernard's Boat Landing

Date: 1893
Description: View down pier towards the "Columbia" steamboat at the boat landing. The shoreline is the the background. There are three or four people on the steamboat a...
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Men at Holy Hill Shrine

Date: 1910
Description: Four men kneeling and praying at the shrine at Holy Hill. More people are gathered near the church above them.
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Group Portrait of Young People

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Description: Group portrait of four men and four women posing while sitting and standing in front of a painted backdrop. The men are wearing striped jackets, and two of...
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William and Alma at Portofino

Date: 02 22 1930
Description: William Conrad Seipp, Jr., left, and his daughter Melita, far right, pose with Alma Schmidt Petersen and her son Conrad at an overlook above Portofino Bay....

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