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| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | An interior look at the so-called Pierce home, located at 424 North Pinckney Street, at the corner of Pinckney and Gilman Streets. At the time this photogr... |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Pencil sketch of a cross-section of the Dells of the Wisconsin River. People are in a row boat in the center. Caption at bottom: "The Dells — Wisconsin Riv... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of old City Hall building at right center facing the camera. Electric power poles are along the street, along which horse-drawn carriages and... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Side view of the statue on a plinth with Celtic designs, with his right hand holding a horn resting on his hip. The statue is located in Juneau Park. On th... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Home of John Johnston (1836-1904), a successful Milwaukee banker, at 645 Franklin Place, also know as "The Lion House." Home is set back from the road, wit... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View from shore of sailboat anchored on the lake. There appears to be an island in the upper left. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Mendota State Hospital office. Charles Carter, steward, seated at his desk. Across from him is George B. Merrick, Asst. Steward. Below the desk is a dog,... |
| 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: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Log cabin on trailer pulled by two horses used in the presidential campaign in Wisconsin to promote the candidacy of Benjamin Harrison. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A group of loggers at work in the woods with horses and a team of oxen. The men are cutting down fir trees to eventually be sold at market. |
| Date: | 04 05 1852 |
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| Description: | Whole plate daguerreotype of view along the east bank of the Galena River (also known as the Fevre River). From a full plate daguerreotype by Alexander Hes... |
| Date: | 1846 |
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| Description: | Two pages of Samuel Marshall's 1846 diary, filled with daily entries. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | First and second grade children with their teacher, Miss Drinker, who was temporarily taking charge of Miss Ella Larkin's school. Taken in the front entran... |
| Date: | 08 01 1895 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the district school house property, with a young boy standing on the front steps. There is a hand-pump on a wood platform in front of the ... |
| Date: | 07 19 1895 |
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| Description: | Man and dog standing in a field of spring wheat on the farm of Ferdinand Ledke. Another man is standing in the background, facing the forest. |
| Date: | 07 16 1895 |
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| Description: | Man sharpening a scythe blade in a field of timothy hay. Another man stands near him in the field, and in the far background a man sits in a buggy with a t... |
| Date: | 08 02 1895 |
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| Description: | A hardwood forest ten miles southwest of Florence, containing hard maple, birch, elm, oak, hemlock, and other types of timber. Two men are leaning against ... |
| Date: | 10 17 1895 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill of a large group of men harvesting a field. Four men are standing atop a mound of what appears to be straw or hay. A steam thresher... |
| Date: | 07 30 1895 |
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| Description: | Two men stand in a field of millet owned by Henry Higgins. |
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