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Madison Brass Band at State Fair

Date: 09 10 1879
Description: The Madison Brass Band performing at the Wisconsin State Fair at Camp Randall. The view is facing east toward the Wisconsin State Capitol.
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East Water Street

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Description: East Water Street from near Walker's Point Bridge showing two men in the foreground.
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T.A. Chapman's New Store

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Description: Elevated view of T.A. Chapman's new store with a horse and carriage next to it.
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Angle Worm Station

Date: 1873
Description: View from the foot of Carroll Street with the Angle Worm Station at Barnes boat landing on Lake Monona. Shows the Scutt II taken from the first succ...
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Capital Brewery

Date: 1873
Description: Elevated view of employees, along with young children, posed around a wagon loaded with barrels of beer in front of Hausmann's Capital Brewery at the corne...
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Passenger Ferry

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Description: A passenger ferry, possibly on the Arkansas river. Passengers include men, women, and horses.
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Tobacco Harvest

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Description: Men in field with tobacco on wagon, and a barn and an outbuilding in the background. This is Lewis Dahl's tobacco harvest in back of his father's home (Nel...
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Park Hotel

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Description: The Park Hotel, once lived in by Lewis Dahl and family. It was also the Isaac DeForest home. Men and women are standing outdoors. There is a wagon or carri...
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Lewis Dahl in front of Livery Stable

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Description: Lewis Dahl in a fur coat, in horse-drawn carriage and horse "Princeton". Frame buildings behind and livery stable operated with the Park Hotel.
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Road at the River Bottom

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Description: River bottom road in southwestern Wisconsin.
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Pirsch Wagon Company

Date: 1910
Description: Exterior view of the wagon shop of John B. Pirsch of Kenosha whose father, Nicholas Pirsch, had begun building buggies and wagons in 1857. Several men pose...
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"New Music Palace"

Date: 1892
Description: Formerly the Richter, Schubert and Dick office building. Seven-story building with a rounded corner next to the alleyway. The word Merrill is above one e...
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First and Main Streets

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Description: Elevated view of intersection of First and Main Streets, probably taken from the window of the Van Schaick studio.
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Young Woman in Clearing

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Description: A portrait of a young woman wearing a hat and dress, and holding a bouquet of flowers, standing in a clearing. In the background is the darkroom horse-draw...
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Country Road and Buggy

Date: 1900
Description: Country road, showing a woman and a buggy pausing in the distance.
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1st East Koshkonong Church

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Description: Exterior view of a church, with the congregation entering. Some horse-drawn buggies are on the left. Photograph caption reads: "S.O. Stevens, Stoughton, ph...
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Construction Site

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Description: Construction site showing men excavating the foundation and basement of a building. Teams of horses are hitched to wagons. The men are using various implem...
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Construction Site

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Description: A construction site with a view of the excavated foundation and the street level. At the street level are buildings, people, and horse-drawn wagons. One ma...

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