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| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | This is a family photograph of Nels Wickstrom with his wife Anna (born Anna Stoel) and their children in front of their log home. The oldest child, wearing... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Painting depicting Chippewa Falls and the first sawmill on the Chippewa River, built by Jean Brunet. The residence of H.S. Allen, one of the owners of the... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Sketch of the camp of the 15th Regiment of the Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry on Island No. 10 during the Civil War. Colonel Hans Christian Heg commanded the... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | View of the Chequamegon Hotel, built by the Wisconsin Central railroad interests and opened in 1877. It faced the bay and had a long series of steps leadin... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Men and women sitting in two hammocks. The people pictured are Julia Murray Ormsby, Fred Werner, and R. Effie (Ettie) Meinhold. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Chippewa Falls. |
| Date: | 12 21 1882 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Kaukauna, from the Appleton Post Annual Review. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Princeton, with an inset of the Residence of F.T. Yahr. Fox River loops to left of center, with one bridge; thirty-six businesses, reside... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | From Judge Smith Addition, 5th Ward, looking north, toward the city. Drawing is an elevated view of field and plank fence in foreground, road to the left a... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Cluttered work space of the librarian responsible for the Historical Society's newspaper collection during the period when the Society occupied rooms in th... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Central Railway's locomotive # 96 at the Waukesha depot. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Mapleside, the home built by Able Dunning in 1853 on what is now University Avenue. It was razed in 1970 to make way for a Burger King restaurant. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | "Reverend A. Jacobson's residence, distance" from Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views." |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Rock Prairie Lutheran Church in Luther Valley. Note the model of the sailing ship hanging from the ceiling of the nave, a traditional pract... |
| Date: | 09 19 1876 |
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| Description: | Left to right: Johannes Brenum (father), Peter, Bernt, Ole, Maria, Ingeborg (mother), Mrs. Margaret Larson (neighbor in plaid dress). Little girl is Minnie... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A farm view with a rough split-rail fence and many very large circular haystacks in front of a two-story white frame house. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A view of a farmstead from across a shallow valley. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | A family of twelve is grouped outdoors around a table. Behind them is a picket fence and a frame house, with latticework and carpenter's lace decorating it... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A husband, wife and three children are grouped around a table set for coffee. Behind them is a board fence and a frame house. |
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