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| 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: | Advertising poster depicting a mower, reaper, hay wagon, and family picnic in a rural setting. Printed by Edward Mendel for C.H. McCormick & Bro. Includes ... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline over river towards the town. |
| 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: | 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: | Boardwalk leading to St. Joseph's Catholic Church in La Pointe. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View overlooking Pinckney Street on the Square with the American Hotel in the background. |
| 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: | Men, horses and wagons on a hillside. A barn and another building are in the background. |
| 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 family stands in front of a barn. Beside them are cattle, horses, a wagon and a manual rake reaper. |
| 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: | A carriage and a family stand in front of a picket fence in front of an unpainted Greek Revival frame house. Attached to the house is a storefront. Althoug... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Sixteen people, including four small children dressed in white, are posed in front of a picket fence standing before a small frame house. A windmill and ho... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A family standing in a yard playing croquet, with a frame house and farm buildings behind them. An interesting rustic bench is on the right. |
| 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... |
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