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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel packet, Arkansas, loaded with gunny sacks of wheat taken between 1872 and 1878. Men are unloading barrels and gunny sacks on a gangpl... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Lithograph from Frank Leslie's Illustrated News of the sidewheel passenger, Lady Elgin, at her wharf in Chicago, Illinois in 1860. From a pho... |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of the Wisconsin Fish Hatchery at Fitchburg. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view drawing of the grounds of Villa Louis, the estate of the fur trading Dousman family. After the death of H. Louis Dousman's mother in 1882, ... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Engineering(?) photograph of a grain binder. The binder may be experimental. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Participants, spectators, and the competition grounds of the Western Rifle Association Tournament. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Men and boys participate in the Western Rifle Association Tournament. Many of the participants are sitting under umbrellas and holding their guns. Severa... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Participants at the Western Rifle Association Tournament in Wapello, Iowa. Many of the men are holding guns. A farmhouse and farm buildings are in the ba... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Participants at the Western Rifle Association Tournament, Wapello, Iowa, seated and standing by a small stream. Several of the men are holding guns. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View across field towards the Amund Rustebakke farm. Twelve haystacks dominate the left and center of the image, and two people are standing on top of the ... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View down a rocky hill towards a split-rail fence bordering a prosperous farm. The low building in the center is the kind of cattle shed settlers built as ... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Abraham Schmocker, a "hermit" who lived in "Stumptown" near Alma, seated on a bench outside his log cabin, holding a kitty. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Men, horses and wagons on a hillside. A barn and another building are in the background. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A farmer with a long beard and wearing a hat is standing in the foreground in front of a board fence, which is part of an elaborate system of fencing surro... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | People in field with hay piles and traditional Norwegian Sval House (right) and salt-box house (left) with adjoining garden and farm buildings in the backg... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| 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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