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| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | The Mazomanie School, later the high school. A large group of students and teachers are standing in front of the two-story brick building with octagonal cu... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Mixed group, mostly children, having a picnic in the woods, perhaps connected with the dedication of the East Blue Mounds Lutheran Church. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Two woman sitting in Oak Hill Cemetery. Board fencing, with a set of steps near the gate, surrounds the graveyard. Picket fences set off some of the headst... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Lithograph of a map drawn to indicate a mine on land owned by Mineral Point Mining Co. in the lead region of southwestern Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 04 27 1891 |
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| Description: | Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd President of the United States, with Mrs. Harrison and a group of men and women on the parapet of Sutro Heights, San Francisco,... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the town, looking northwest. The Chippewa River is in the foreground, with a lot of buildings, an intersection, and distant hills. One bui... |
| Date: | 04 20 1864 |
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| Description: | The 4th Maine artillery battery posed in front of a large building. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Al-che-say, chief of the White Mountain Apache, and his war council. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Camp Randall, with the old stadium in the foreground and the Wisconsin State Capitol in the background. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Rice Lake. A partially constructed building is in the right foreground. Unpaved roads and a sidewalk lead to commercial buildings and dwel... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | The Mitchell residence, home of Henry Mitchell (left) and residence of Jerome I. Case (right), on Main Street between 8th and 9th Streets. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Side view of Benjamin Walker Castle, (1862-1893) in the 900 block of East Gorham Street. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Souvenir Booklet made for the opening night of August 19, 1889. Half of the image is the opera house, and the other half is a brief summary and descriptio... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | The brewery was built by George Schweickhart after he came to the city in 1856. He purchased three acres of land on the then Watertown Plank road, now just... |
| Date: | 1847 |
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| Description: | Drawing of a Native American man looking into the Milwaukee settlement. |
| Date: | 11 24 1898 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the top of Main Hall (later Bascom Hall) of Picnic Point on Lake Mendota from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Interior view of Washington and Lee University chapel showing tomb of Robert E. Lee. Portraits hang on the wall around an arch leading to the tomb. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A large class stands outside a school. Front row, left to right: Stella Nuzum, unknown, unknown, unknown, Mabel Devlin, Mary Devlin, unknown, Alice Odekirk... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Two men, one waving a hat, standing in a shoulder-high field of grain. |
| Date: | 09 20 1896 |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of a group of people gathered on the curb and sidewalk in front of a building. Many of the people have bicycles. There is a pennant behin... |
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