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Paving Blocks

Date: 1910
Description: View of the Montello granite quarry grounds shows piles of granite paving blocks. In the background, a team of horses pulls a wagon under an elevated narro...
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Men Returning after Hunt

Date: 1910
Description: In her journal from Sudan, Carrie describes a tiger hunt which occurred while she was visiting a village. The tiger had been preying on livestock for a cou...
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Groote Schuur

Date: 1910
Description: View down tree-lined drive of Groote Schuur, an estate once owned by the East India Trading Company in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Woman in Carriage

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Description: An unidentified woman posing while sitting and looking through the open back of a carriage on a road.
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Road in Autumn

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Description: View down rural road lined with trees and rocks. The leaves have turned to autumn colors. There is a fence along the road on the right.
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Road Through a Forest

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Description: View from side of tree-lined road towards a gate in a stone wall further down on the right.
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Tree Canopy

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Description: View down center of a dirt path of a tree canopy.
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A Dirt Road

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Description: View down a dirt road in a forest.
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Yahara River Mill

Date: 1850
Description: A grist mill on the Yahara River at the outlet of Lake Mendota. The mill, called Farwell's Madison Mills was built in 1850 by Governor Farwell. The origina...
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Woman Driving a Carriage

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Description: Left side view of a young woman looking out from a horse-drawn carriage holding the reins to the horse.
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Dirt Road

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Description: Elevated view of a dirt road between bushes and trees. An automobile is parked on the left side of the road, and a fence runs along the right side. There i...
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Automobile on Road Cut Through Bluffs

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Description: View from roadside of an automobile driving up a curve in a road through a large rock formation cut through a bluff.
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Field in Valley among Bluffs

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Description: View from a dirt road towards a field in a valley of low bluffs. Farm buildings are near a base of the bluffs at the far edge of the field.
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Rural Road

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Description: View across unpaved rural road that curves around to the left around a large rock formation with an exposed rock face with trees growing on the top. There ...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus Building

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Description: View across a vast lawn of a building on the UW-Madison campus. The building is probably Agriculture Hall.
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Judging Horses

Date: 1925
Description: View across unpaved road towards a Native American man wearing a plaid overcoat with two work horses. A crowd of men are watching from the elevated wooden ...
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Judging Dairy Cows

Date: 1930
Description: View across muddy ground towards a man holding a dairy cow by the halter, and on the left a boy holding the lead of a heifer. They are standing in front of...

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