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| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | The Opera House at the corner of Washington (now Main) and North Mill Streets. A sign at the back of the building reads: "Printing." A barber pole is in fr... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of nine rafters wintering at Reed's Landing. At left is Hiram Price, with L.W. Crane beside her. Third is Annie Girdon w... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Galena (lead sulfide) was melted at this open hearth furnace owned by Richard Straw and Company on the Roundtree Branch of the Little Platte River. The men... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Two men cook at griddles while another leans on an open door to one of many tents at a Civil War army camp. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Elevated illustration of the Lawrence College Campus with snow on the ground. |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Illustration of an early design for the 3rd Wisconsin State Capitol, the second in Madison. Caption reads: "State Capitol at Madison — Donnel & Kutzbock, A... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of South Twelfth Street. There is a child standing in the center of the street holding onto a wagon in which another child is sitting. A chur... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of M. Gottshalk's first meat market. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | The Utly Residence, surrounded by a fence, on the north-east corner of Wisconsin and 8th Streets. Built by E.R. Cooley. A man is standing in the center nea... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Taylor Orphan Asylum, viewed from the front. |
| Date: | 1831 |
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| Description: | Fort Winnebago, a print published in Mrs. John H. Kinzie's Wau-bun (1856). |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Second Sacred Heart Polish Catholic Church. A large group of people are standing in the foreground. Caption reads: "Second Sacred Hear... |
| Date: | 05 25 1897 |
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| Description: | Built 1836-37, on the northwest corner of Florida and Greenbush. A manuscript note on the reverse of the photograph called it the "oldest school under dest... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Wisconsin Street seen from Spring Street. The building on the left nearest the bridge was the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway's downto... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Walter Allen School, with a woman in a carriage parked in front. The Walter Allen School was an elementary school located at 1657 South Third S... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Wisconsin Avenue from the Wisconsin State Capitol building. Mansions and churches are along the road, and Lake Mendota and Picnic Point ar... |
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