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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of cattle stockyards. Cattle can be seen in many different pens. |
| 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: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Farmer's house with rear of the government Contract School on the Menominee reservation in the distance. The Keshena Creek flows between the farmhouse and ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Exterior of dormitory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The first hall of this name; it was later razed to make way for a larger dormitory of... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View down a wide, tree-lined neighborhood street. Well-maintained lawns and houses can be seen on the left. A man with a reel mower is working in a yard, a... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A man and woman (possibly husband and wife) maintain a residential backyard. The man, wearing a bow tie, is mowing the lawn with a reel mower, while the wo... |
| Date: | 10 1930 |
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| Description: | View across a road and field of several rundown farm buildings located near a farmhouse. The image was used to illustre: "poor farm buildings." |
| Date: | 09 27 1895 |
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| Description: | A plot of land in front of a row of houses features cabbage in the foreground, ripe, four-foot tall Havana seed leaf tobacco plants in the center, and swee... |
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| Description: | View of the Henry Clay Monument with a statue of Clay inside. In front stand two young girls wearing dresses. Each girl is holding a pet rabbit. On the rig... |
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| Description: | A view of a farm with a house on the left, a windmill in the center, and a dilapidated building on the right. |
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