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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Group of men posing in the dining room at August Mason's lumber camp. Three men are playing stringed instruments. Posters are displayed on the wall behind ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Central Railroad train on White River Bridge, with crew posing on top of cars. The bridge was 1600 feet long and 110 feet above the water. In 187... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from steep shoreline of a log jam of about 150 million feet of logs, stopped at the piers of Pound, Halbert, and Co., which stood in about 40... |
| Date: | 03 1881 |
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| Description: | Winter scene looking north along First Street to its intersection with Main Street, Whitewater, Wisconsin. Shows aftermath of a big snowstorm which occurre... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length formal studio portrait of Lucius Fairchild. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of Civil War soldier Nils (Niels) J. Gilbert, Company A, of the 15th Wisconsin Infantry, believed to have been taken in October... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Sarah Fairchild Dean Conover, sister of Civil War hero and governor Lucius Fairchild, reclines on a sofa in her home at 424 North Pinckney Street. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | People in a cemetery. Includes a view of the Scofield family monument. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A winter scene showing the courthouse, schoolhouse, and Congregational Church, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Bedroom scene with two boys in a bed with ornate headboard. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A man and three boys in swimming suits at the beach. Presumably, Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A family campsite with a woman and three boys standing next to a canvass wall tent. In front of the tent is a campfire with pots, and a log with a hatchet ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Elevated wintertime view of the intersection of South Carroll and West Main Streets, showing the First Baptist Church constructed in 1854, the wooden fence... |
| Date: | 05 26 1896 |
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| Description: | Military honor guard standing outdoors at the funeral of former Governor and Civil War hero Lucius Fairchild, which was held at the Wisconsin State Capitol... |
| Date: | 05 09 1894 |
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| Description: | Reuben Gold Thwaites rowing the skiff the "Pilgrim" on the Ohio River. |
| Date: | 09 18 1892 |
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| Description: | Four men sit on the balcony of Rocky Roost, the vacation home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Located west of Governor's Island in Lake Mendota. The men ar... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. at the age of 29 when elected to Congress in 1884. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Gilbert Roe, Madison attorney and partner in the firm La Follette, Harper, Roe, seated in his office in the second floor of the Fairchild Block at 29 East ... |
| Date: | 12 1898 |
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| Description: | Attorney Albert G. Zimmerman in his Madison law office, dictating a letter to secretary Jennie Nelson. Until 1894 Zimmerman was the law partner of Robert ... |
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