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| Date: | 09 04 1895 |
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| Description: | Julius Koehler family in their garden in front of their newly built frame home. The original Koehler farm was destroyed by forest fire in July of 1894, evi... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Main Street, with its dirt, ruts, cows (and presumably manure), but wide enough for easy hitching of wagons and teams. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Several houses at the intersection of Wilson Street and Monona Avenue with the home of Simeon Mills, one of Madison's most prominent citizens, on the corne... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | The Madison water tower and farmers' market as seen through the stone gateway at the East Washington Avenue entrance to the Capitol Park. The building on t... |
| Date: | 06 17 1929 |
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| Description: | Farm surrounded by cutover stump land. |
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| Description: | View across field towards the railroad bridge, seen with the construction almost completed. A man is standing in the middle of the bridge, and two or three... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Man plowing a field with an experimental Farmall F-22 tractor. |
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| Description: | View from shoreline across Crawfish River, with foliage and a barbed wire fence in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | D.F. Brown house during the spring or summer, with two elm trees, three children and a woman. A picket fence runs along the sidewalk in the front of the ho... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of St. John Chrysostom Episcopal Church from the northeast. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A large family group and workers pose in field in front of farming machinery and haystacks. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Dane County Asylum for the Criminally Insane. In 1880 it became a part of the county hospital system, which was set up to provide longer term care to peopl... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | View from street towards the school building. There is a small group of children sitting on the front steps. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The Benedict House. Built by Dr. Alonzo Benedict and designed for two families. The original roof did not function correctly, so the builder put on a secon... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A young child feeding a flock of chickens outside of a poultry house. A farmhouse is in the background. |
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| Description: | View across lawn or field of numerous buildings on Chester Thordarson's estate. There are greenhouses on the left. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Men cutting and gathering grain by hand. One man appears to be holding a scythe, or possibly a cradle. |
| Date: | 11 26 1923 |
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| Description: | Motorized water pump powered by a 1.5 H.P. McCormick-Deering engine on the farm of Walter Stange(?). |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A large float decorated with a farm scene and blanketed with flowers moves down a city street (possibly Michigan Avenue in Chicago). The float is part of t... |
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