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| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Tree-lined State Street from Bascom Hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Traffic on State Street includes two well-dressed gentlemen on hors... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of lumber raft and workers on the Chippewa River. In the background on the right are dwellings. |
| Date: | 05 04 1886 |
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| Description: | Edward P. Allis Reliance Works under the protection of the Wisconsin State Militia during the first general labor strike. The strike is also known as the ... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Robert M. La Follette, Sr., campaigning in Cumberland. La Follette led the reform faction in Wisconsin's Republican party and in 1900, he was elected gover... |
| Date: | 04 1893 |
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| Description: | Captain Abe McDougall's whaleback boat, docked at the American Steel Barge Company. |
| Date: | 04 1893 |
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| Description: | Launching Captain Abe McDougall's whaleback boat, "Christopher Columbus", from the American Steel Barge Company dock. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View across water towards men and boys swimming and splashing in the Mississippi River. Alma is in the background on the far shoreline. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | View towards men and women sitting and standing, beneath the lower deck of a suspension bridge (train uses upper deck). There are two booths (for tolls or ... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul passenger depot with several people standing in front of the building. This is the Franklin Street station on East Wilson Str... |
| Date: | 1839 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Racine House with multiple horse-drawn wagons and figures standing in front. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Anaglyph view of the exterior of Assembly Presbyterian Church, surrounded by trees. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of elevated view of Newhall House which was destroyed by fire in 1883. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the Artesian Well near the intersection of Wisconsin and Minnesota (later renamed Wacouta) Streets. The following is printed on the backside... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of Memorial Hall at Beloit College. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A stereograph of a statue of Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. |
| Date: | 04 20 1861 |
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| Description: | Elevated stereograph view of the Great Union Meeting at the New York City Union Square. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the main building, a tenement (loft style) building, at Libby Prison. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Stereograph over rooftops towards the Ferris wheel at the Chicago World's Fair. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Stereograph through a Ferris wheel at the Chicago World's Fair. The sensation of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago was the Ferris wheel, the... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of exterior of Main Hall (now Bascom Hall) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
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