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| Description: | Milwaukee Street looking west. In the foreground is a dog standing on a bridge. Signs on a building on the right read: "Furniture" and "Valley Chief Reaper... |
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| Description: | Aerial view of a residential part of Janesville. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Milwaukee Street. |
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| Description: | Stereograph elevated view of a home in Lancaster. |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Lancaster from behind a wooden fence. |
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| Description: | Stereograph view looking downhill towards the three-story Farwell Hotel in Lancaster. |
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| Description: | Stereograph view looking downhill towards Lancaster, with the Congregational Church to the right. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of an elevated view of Court House Square in Lancaster. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Zeeland Mills, built in 1862 by John Verstegen. The flour mill was 36' x 50', four stories and had "two runs of stone." It was still operating in 1911. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Sarah Fairchild Dean Conover, the daughter of Jairus Fairchild and the sister of Governor Lucius Fairchild. Sarah ma... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Ceresco taken from Seward's hill. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | A view of the Milton College campus, showing three main buildings. Caption reads: "Milton College". |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick holding a top hat (1809-1884), by Matthew Brady. McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Gates Gallery, location for the first H.H. Bennett studio. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Kane's Hotel, built in about 1839 by Ezekiel Tainter, and then called the Phoenix Hotel, on Main Street. It passed through many hands but retained the orig... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | View across open grounds towards the Brisbois Hotel, built in the early 1860's, and used as a hospital during the Civil War. It was later part of Campion H... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Oliver Marcy (1820-1899), American educator and natural scientist. In 1862, he became professor and chair of the natural histor... |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864), notable American professor of science. He served for many years as a professor of Chemistry and ... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of James Dwight Dana (1813-1895), American minerologist, geologist, and zoologist. He is best known for his discoveries of mountai... |
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