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Tower Foundation

Date: 1898
Description: View from water tower, showing the grove where Black Hawk's pursuers were supposed to have camped in 1832. The group of men in the foreground are digging f...
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Family Home of William Henry Rogers

Date: 05 14 1887
Description: The family home of William Henry Rogers on the shore of Lake Mendota.
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Furniture Company Fire

Date: 04 12 1899
Description: Stereograph of a fire at the Choate-Hollister Furniture Company. A crowd, mostly men, are gathered to watch the effort to extinguish the fire. On the left,...
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Hop Harvesting

Date: 1868
Description: Stereograph of an elevated view of hop harvesters, men, women and children, posing in a field at H.H. Potter's Hop Yard. Trellises of mature hops plants ar...
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First Boarding House

Date: 1880
Description: Stereograph of a boarding house in the woods surrounded by a pole fence. Hand-written on the reverse: "First Boarding house of Florence, Erected March 1st,...

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