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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of lumber raft and workers on the Chippewa River. In the background on the right are dwellings. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Norwegian family posing with their household possessions, in front of their home. The man dressed in military uniform is a Civil War veteran. Madison, Wisc... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The John W. Coleman residence at 617 Lake Avenue formerly known as Chatham Street. It was built in 1850 and was one of the early brick houses in Racine. |
| 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: | Council House of the first Wisconsin Territorial Legislature when it met at Belmont in 1836. A young boy or man wearing a hat stands in front near a fence. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Baraboo was first settled around 1838, and by 1870 it had become the county seat and the thriving village illustrated here. This birds eye drawing depicts ... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of the city of Manitowoc with a population of 5,168 inhabitants as it appears in 1870, the year the village was granted a city charter by t... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Fairgrounds. In the foreground is a fence and dwellings. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Family and baby carriage next to wooden tower windmill with house behind them. A.L. Dahl, landscape photographer, wagon, left. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View of upright and wing house with adjacent windmill structure made in Batavia, Illinois, by U.S. Wind Eng. Pump Co. The barn has a stone foundation. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | People in field with hay piles and traditional Norwegian Sval House (right) and salt-box house (left) with adjoining garden and farm buildings in the backg... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A pasture is in the foreground with a brick house, barn and connected outbuildings behind it. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Farmyard with machinery in foreground. A man stands with a team of large horses, perhaps Percherons. Two women stand on the front porch of the farmhouse. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A family in a wagon, on horseback and standing in front of farmstead that has a stone fence. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A farmyard, with a windmill and boy standing on top. Included in the view is a barn, upright and wing frame house. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Newly planted trees stand in the foreground. A family, including a man on a horse, is posed in the yard of a small upright and wing frame house. A woodpile... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The Andrew Amundsen family posing in front of their frame house with some of their furniture. A quilt is on the back of one chair and a shawl is on the bac... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | S. Pettersen family around square "center" table with a checkered table cloth in a house yard. A child is seated on the ground with the family dog while an... |
| 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: | Semi-circle of group in yard with a baby carriage in the middle. A large wood frame house with carpenter's lace on its porch is behind them. The third man ... |
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