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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Loggers using pulley to top load logs on horse-drawn bob sled. |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Men loading rock from Saddle Mound quarry onto a St. Paul Railroad flat car. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the steamboat Golden Era, which did service during the Civil War, docked near buildings. It was sold to Michael Purcell of New Orle... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | The main deck of The Tuisco, showing groups of immigrant men, women, and a child in brightly colored clothing, conversing while standing below a ful... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | A view of the Synagogue with a one-horse carriage in the foreground. Hölzlhuber occupied the position of organist and choirmaster for this congregation unt... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Hölzlhuber journeyed from Chicago to Louisville, Kentucky, and from there took a train south to Cave City, from which passengers boarded a stagecoach for t... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | "One of the most interesting expeditions which I have ever made in my life was a trip on a hand-car," Hölzlhuber wrote. Julius Movius, the General Agent fo... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Friedrich Flersheim immigrated from Mecklenburg to Illinois in the early 1850s, and after farming for a time built this distillery on the Black River in Wi... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | In his journal Hölzlhuber described his departure from Milwaukee. "I spent the last night from May 3rd to 4th, 1860, upon the ocean steamer Milwaukee |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Denniston House, P.J. Schnorrenberg, proprietor. View across railroad tracks of the hotel entrance with porch. A man and three women are standing on the po... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Road lined with fences leading into town. Several houses are visible in the distance. A railroad track and electric or telegraph line runs along the left s... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | View of State Street, looking west. Across the intersection on the corner is Sandra's Millinery at 101 State Street. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Camp Randall and the neighborhoods west of Bascom Hall including University Heights. |
| Date: | 02 11 1928 |
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| Description: | A man uses an McCormick-Deering 10-20(?) tractor to pull a large trailer with a large tank down a street in a commercial area. The text on the sign above a... |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway engine no. 489. Five railroad employees stand in front of the locomotive. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a large group of mostly men in touring clothes posed outdoors with bicycles. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Steel span railroad bridge under construction over Cedar Creek. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Logging company's railroad tracks and construction crew in a forest. |
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| Description: | Exterior view identified as Camp Douglas from the south looking north. Elevated view of a town with a railroad track and an oncoming train in the center ... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of work men posing sitting on a wagon on the platform at the railroad station. |
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