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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Soldiers' Orphans Home, formerly Harvey Hospital. The octagon house was originally built for Governor Leonard J. Farwell and designed by Aug... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Group of people posing outside of Soldiers' Orphans Home, located on Spaight Street between Paterson and Brearly Streets. The building was originally const... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View of the only known view of the first floor Rotunda of the third Wisconsin State Capitol, a remarkable stereograph by Dane County photographer Andreas L... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A family of twelve sitting in chairs under a tree in their yard. A child sits in a high chair. The frame house has a Hekla Insurance sign above its door; t... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A family of eleven is sitting on the porch steps and standing in the yard alongside a wood frame house with elegant trim above its windows, and along top f... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A family of seven, including a babe in arms are in front of a frame house with a stone foundation and latticework under the porch. A tree stump is in the l... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A man is standing on the far left with a baby in a baby buggy, a boy on the far right is sitting on a rocking horse on the lawn, and a woman holding baby i... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A Yankee-built Greek Revival frame house from the 1840s. The small dark rectangular plaque above the door is a Madison Mutual Insurance Company sign that i... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A family stands on the porch of small frame house with wing additions. A well is on the far left, and farm buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Boy on garden path holding bunny rabbit with family in front of frame house with shuttered windows and latticework trim above porch. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Carriage in front of picket fence with people on horses and on porch of large brick house that has trim on porch top and three chimneys; house has 1868 dat... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The Michael Johnson Engesether family is seen from across a field standing at the side of a stone house with a frame addition. The house has a small front ... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Family by wood fence with one child sitting on top of gate; wood house with upper window shutter closed and shutter trim around doorway; trellis by porch. ... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Jefferson School, built on the site of the first cemetery in Janesville. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | State Normal School. A group of men are standing in the tall grass in the left foreground. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Richards' Octagon House, with a horse and carriage and various people posed in front of it. Caption reads: "Octagon House Watertown Wi... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Octagon House with a horse and carriage posed in the foreground and several people around it and on its porches. Caption reads: "Octag... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A large, white brick building is in the middle center, surrounded by trees. A smaller white building is in the right background. In front of the building... |
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