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| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Three men taking a break during harvesting. Their horse-drawn reaper raked the grain into rows as it cut. In the background are various farmstead buildings... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the "Dell Queen" entering the Narrows via Devil's Elbow as Hattie and Nellie Bennett look on from an overlook on the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | A view of the village from a nearby bluff across a pond. Men, women and children, standing spaced apart, are posing in the field near the pond. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | The sidewheel packet, Red Wing, in the Mississippi River near Queen's Bluff below Trempealeau, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Two lumber rafts with men aboard floating down the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Engraving for "Peterson's Magazine" of women in maids' uniforms sliding down an icy path in the snow. |
| Date: | 07 1876 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the Park Hotel looking east to the corner of Carroll and Main Streets in Madison. Soldiers are in formation as a part of the centennial ... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | This building, on an entire block of Spaight and Brearly Streets with Lake Monona, was originally the governor's mansion for Leonard J. Farwell. The Farwel... |
| Date: | 1827 |
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| Description: | Lithographic portrait of Key-Way-No-Wut or Going Cloud, the war chief of the Lac du Flambeau band of Chippewa smoking a pipe. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Three people are posing in the foreground, with a man with a long beard standing in front of two women sitting in a horse-drawn carriage. There is a barn a... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Dane County Courthouse, which was erected in 1850 and demolished in 1883, with the County jail to the right. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Sixteen people, including four small children dressed in white, are posed in front of a picket fence standing before a small frame house. A windmill and ho... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Springfield Township, Dane County (Section 22) corner of Fischer Road and Highway 12, Wi. Abraham C. Martin, a farmer and dairyman with his family in fron... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Family seated on porch steps with close view of stone house and girl in window; wood basement opening on side of porch. Front Row: Mr. and Mrs. Michael Joh... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | A one room Greek Revival schoolhouse with bell tower. A boy is in front, wearing a broad-brimmed straw hat and climbing a tree. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | View of the Spring Prairie Lutheran Church, built in 1853 and replaced in 1886. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the William Bullock family, a group of eleven adults and children in front of an ivy covered wall. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a family group of thirty men, women and children seated on steps against a cloth backdrop that has been attached to a frame house. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Outdoor family portrait with most of the girls dressed in the same fabric with vertical stripes. They are posed before a brick house. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a husband, wife and two daughters, whose dresses are of different designs but made of the same plaid fabric. They are posed in front of a... |
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