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Portage View

Date: 1856
Description: View of Portage, including St. Mary's Church.
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View of Superior

Date: 1856
Description: View of the city of Superior.
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Baptist Church

Date: 1856
Description: Exterior view of a Baptist church.
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Holt's Mill

Date: 1856
Description: View across water toward the sawmill and various outbuildings located on the Oconto River. Steam is rising from a large pipe over over the main building, a...
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Holt's Mill

Date: 1856
Description: Large piles of logs waiting to be processed into lumber sit next to the Oconto River. In the background stand what appear to be piles of cut lumber. Captio...
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Engraving of "Champion Reaper & Mower Works"

Date: 1856
Description: Engraving showing Champion Reaper & Mower Works in Chicago, Illinois, where first Champion machine was built."
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Portage City, Wisconsin

Date: 1856
Description: Half plate ambrotype of an elevated view of Portage City, Wisconsin. The view encompasses a wooden Gothic Revival church and steeple on the right, with a d...

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