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South Wisconsin Avenue and West Main Street

Date: 1865
Description: South Wisconsin Avenue and West Main Street. Lake Monona is in the background and the Lucius Fairchild and David Atwood houses are at the upper left. The r...
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Bridge in Tenney Park

Date: 06 1903
Description: Two women and an infant on a bridge in Tenney Park.
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Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Hand-colored image of a Wisconsin cranberry bog and harvest. Men are harvesting in the flooded cranberry marshes.
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Workers Harvesting in Rice Field

Date: 1910
Description: In her journal from China, Carrie Chapman Catt describes the rice plantations. All of the workers and their families lived on the compound and worked long ...
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Workers Planting in Rice Field

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of workers in a rice field planting rice. Carrie Chapman Catt described the conditions of rice plantations in her journal from h...
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Children in Pool in China

Date: 1910
Description: Four children standing waist-deep in a cement pool. Around the pool men and a young child, all wearing head wraps, stand or sit on the cement wall surround...
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Zambezi River and Railroad Bridge

Date: 1910
Description: View of Zambezi River, South Africa, from a boat tour. The railroad bridge is in the far background.
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Victoria Falls 4

Date: 1910
Description: View through trees of Victoria Falls, South Africa.
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Livingstone Island

Date: 1910
Description: Doctor Thorne was one of the members of Carrie's travel party. He is pictured here, in front of Victoria Falls on Livingstone Island.
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Victoria Falls 6

Date: 1910
Description: View of Victoria Falls in South Africa.
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Zambezi Bridge

Date: 1910
Description: A view of the Zambezi Bridge from Palm Grove, South Africa.
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People near Stream

Date: 1910
Description: Four people near a stream. One person standing on rocks in the stream is carrying a jug on their head.
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Trees and a Pond

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Description: View from shoreline of a pond. Trees are reflected in the water.
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Cows In a Stream

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Description: View from shoreline of a small group of cattle standing in a stream drinking water. There are trees and shrubs are along the opposite shoreline.
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Lake View

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Description: View of lake through trees along a shoreline. A ship is in the distance along the horizon.
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Bluffs on Shoreline

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Description: View across lake towards steep bluffs. Trees are growing along the shoreline and on the top of the bluffs. At the base of the cliffs in the center is a sca...
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A Bench Near a Lake

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Description: A wooden bench at the top of a slope overlooking a lake. A wooded shoreline is in the far distance.
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Trees and a Lake

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Description: View across ground towards birch trees and shrubs along a lake shore, with a wooded shoreline across the water in the distance.
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Bluffs and Trees

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Description: View across water towards trees growing on the steep cliffs of a bluff at the shoreline.
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Bluffs and a Cave

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Description: View across water towards trees growing on the steep cliffs of a bluff at the shoreline. There is a cave about halfway up the cliff.

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