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Willson Monarch Remedies Wagon

Date: 1935
Description: Two salesmen stand beside one of the Willson's Monarch Remedies horse-drawn wagons. Willson's sold patent medicines, spices, extracts, flavorings, and "toi...
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Bird's-Eye View of Milwaukee

Date: 1853
Description: Bird's-eye map of Milwaukee looking east toward Lake Michigan from a bluff, long since graded into a slope, at about 6th Street between Wisconsin Avenue an...
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East High School Girls Modern Dance

Date: 04 18 1935
Description: Seven girls performing a modern dance on stage.
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: Elevated view from bluff looking down on city, with Lake Michigan in background. Detailed foreground with two boys playing with a grounded kite, while a ma...
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Abraham Schmocker Seated Outside His Log Cabin

Date: 1885
Description: Abraham Schmocker, a "hermit" who lived in "Stumptown" near Alma, seated on a bench outside his log cabin, holding a kitty.
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Carriage and Horses in front of Barn

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Description: Men and cattle, including one lineback and sheep are in a barnyard. A man and a child are sitting in a horse-drawn vehicle outside of the barnyard fence. T...
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Wing House with Windmill Structure

Date: 1870
Description: View of upright and wing house with adjacent windmill structure made in Batavia, Illinois, by U.S. Wind Eng. Pump Co. The barn has a stone foundation.
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Men with Horses and Wagons near Barn

Date: 1870
Description: Men, horses and wagons on a hillside. A barn and another building are in the background.
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Gothic Revival Farm House

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Description: A Gothic Revival farmhouse with barge board trim behind a fence. Adjacent to the house are farm buildings, one which has a windmill mounted upon it. Men on...
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Family Standing near their Barn

Date: 1870
Description: A family stands in front of a barn. Beside them are cattle, horses, a wagon and a manual rake reaper.
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Family with House and Carriage House

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Description: Family and mailbox in front of frame house with small cross design on second story windows with wagons and farm implements in front of frame carriage house...
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Family at Side of House

Date: 1874
Description: A family is posing at the side of a house. A man and boy are holding rifles, and a dog is lying on the ground between the. There is a baby sitting in a hig...
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Couple Sitting on Porch

Date: 1873
Description: View across yard with tall plants and grass towards a man and woman sitting on a porch behind a latticework railing. The porch has carpenter's lace and a p...
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Family in Yard

Date: 1869
Description: View over fence towards a family sitting in chairs or standing in the yard of a simple frame house that has railing along its porch's roof. There are many ...
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Family of Seven by Large House

Date: 1873
Description: A family of seven stands in the yard of a large, but plain wood frame house. It has three chimneys and a small attic story window in tablet style.
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Family on Porch Steps

Date: 1870
Description: A family of eleven is sitting on the porch steps and standing in the yard alongside a wood frame house with elegant trim above its windows, and along top f...
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Family in Yard and Woman on Horseback

Date: 1869
Description: A family poses in a yard with one elegantly dressed young woman on horseback. The frame house has an unusually shaped attic story fan window. The porch is ...
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Family by Stone Gate

Date: 1879
Description: A well-dressed family of four is posed in front of a stone fence with a picket gate. Behind them is a Greek Revival frame house with shuttered windows.
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Nicoline Hegg Jacobson and her Two Girls

Date: 1877
Description: Nicoline Hegg Jacobson and her two girls are standing in front of a frame house that has lathe on roof for climbing. Vines are growing in window boxes and ...
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Family with Infant

Date: 1870
Description: A family of seven, including a babe in arms are in front of a frame house with a stone foundation and latticework under the porch. A tree stump is in the l...

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