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The Keokuk Beside a Barge

Date: 1868
Description: The sidewheel packet, Keokuk, loaded with passengers beside a barge at a landing. The landing is filled with people and horse-drawn vehicles. The si...
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Train Entering Alma

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Description: CB&N Railroad locomotive entering town. Railroad station in center.
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South Side of Canal Street

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Description: Slightly elevated view of stores on Canal Street, with people in the streeet, and along the sidewalks in front of commercial buildings. There is a Hardware...
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Memorial and Eagle Bay

Date: 1940
Description: Memorial to the Moravians who arrived in Eagle Bay in 1853.
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Aerial View of Town

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Description: Caption reads: "Air View — Fountain City, Wis." Aerial view of town and surrounding landscape that includes trees, rolling hills, and a river.
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Cornish Miner's House

Date: 1925
Description: View from road looking down slope toward the house of a Cornish miner. Other buildings are in the background on the right.
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Pendarvis House

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Description: The Pendarvis house, a Cornish home on Shake Rag Street.
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Polperro House

Date: 1945
Description: A restored Cornish miner's house, called Polperro, on Shake Rag Street. The house was temporarily covered with siding, but after restoration the siding was...
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Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 1877
Description: Photograph of a painting of the exterior of the Eben Peck cabin by Mrs. E.E. Bailey. The location of this original painting is unknown.
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Dam and Power House

Date: 1905
Description: View upriver towards a dam, and a power house on the right.
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West Side Footbridge

Date: 1925
Description: West Side Footbridge. Caption reads: "West Side Footbridge Richland Center Wis."
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View From Brisbois Bluff

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view from Brisbois Bluff of town, Mississippi River, and hills beyond.
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Fort Winnebago

Date: 1831
Description: Fort Winnebago, a print published in Mrs. John H. Kinzie's Wau-bun (1856).
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Mountain Meadow at Interstate Park

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Description: Mountain meadow at Interstate Park. This area was an ancient lake which became filled with peat. Prehistoric bison bones, copper points, and flint arrow po...
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Tent at Interstate Park

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Description: Tent covering the excavation site of the bones of extinct bison. Milo Mickelson and Lester Giesler are standing in the doorway of the tent.
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View from the Wisconsin State Capitol Looking East

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Description: Elevated view from the Wisconsin State Capitol looking eastward down King Street to Lake Monona.
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Test Site Arrest

Date: 04 1997
Description: Arrest of Nukewatch demonstrators at a Nevada test site.
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CCC Workers in Trucks

Date: 1935
Description: Civilian Conservation Corps workers at the Devil's Lake State park camp waving from trucks. Others men stand in the dirt road nearby.
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Buehlow's Resort on Partridge Crop Lake

Date: 1935
Description: View from lake up hill of two wooden cabins. Nearby is an automobile, stairs to the beach, and some boats on the shoreline at Buehlow's Resort on Partridge...
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State Historical Society Building Under Construction

Date: 05 31 1898
Description: Cyanotype elevated view across Langdon Street from the Red Gym of the Wisconsin Historical Society Headquarters under construction.

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