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Photograph

Newhall House - Anaglyph

Date: 1880
Description: Stereograph of elevated view of Newhall House which was destroyed by fire in 1883.
Photograph

"The Warrior And His Bride" - Anaglyph

Date: 1873
Description: Stereograph of a Native American man and woman, both Ute Indians, on horseback.
Photograph

City Hall - Anaglyph

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph; view of the earlier City Hall building, on Market Square at the corner of E. Water Street and Oneida Street. Several signs are in the image, i...
Photograph

Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company Building — Anaglyph

Date: 1890
Description: Stereograph; corner of Broad and Wisconsin Avenues. Built in 1870. E.T. Mix, architect. Victorian details decorate the six story building. A small pile of...
Painting

Burch-Bolden Family Homestead

Date: 1906
Description: This oil painting is a fine weave cotton support (perhaps a bed sheet). It is signed and dated (1906) and depicts an early twentieth century rural southwes...
Photograph

Men Posing with Wagon Loaded with Logs

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Description: Three men are posing in a stand of pines. On the left two men are standing and holding axes, and on the right is a man posing sitting in a wagon loaded wit...
Painting

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
Postcard

Walker's Point Neighborhood Funeral

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Description: An elaborate funeral hearse is pulled up to a house with the back doors open, waiting to be loaded with the casket. There are many men and women bundled up...
Poster

Crimean War Themed Advertising Broadside

Date: 05 1854
Description: This yellow and black wood block print broadside ties England and France's declaration of war against Russia during the Crimean War into a war against high...
Photograph

Man Displaying a Horse

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Description: Man standing and displaying a horse outdoors. There are other men and children behind him on the left, and on the right is another horse. Perhaps a fairgro...
Painting

Three Men and Reaper

Date: 1900
Description: Three men are operating farm machinery being pulled by a team of horses through a field.
Painting

Woman with Rake

Date: 1900
Description: A woman wearing a bonnet is raking a field crop in the foreground. Behind her several farmers are operating a horse-drawn farming machine through the field...
Map or Atlas

Flouring Mill of John Ochsner

Date: 1877
Description: A page from an illustrated historical atlas showing four residences, a hotel and the flouring mill of John Ochsner.
Map or Atlas

Residences in Buffalo and Pepin Counties

Date: 1877
Description: A page from an illustrated historical atlas depicting five residences, including that of Conrad Ochsner.

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