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Town from Across a River

Date: 1870
Description: View from shoreline over river towards the town.
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Pinckney Street

Date: 1870
Description: View overlooking Pinckney Street on the Square with the American Hotel in the background.
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Men with Horses and Wagons near Barn

Date: 1870
Description: Men, horses and wagons on a hillside. A barn and another building are in the background.
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Family Standing near their Barn

Date: 1870
Description: A family stands in front of a barn. Beside them are cattle, horses, a wagon and a manual rake reaper.
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Farmyard with Man and Team of Horses

Date: 1870
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.
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Family in front of Wing Frame House

Date: 1870
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...
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S. Pettersen Family

Date: 1870
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...
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Family with Carriage

Date: 1870
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...
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Family near Windmill

Date: 1870
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...
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Yankee-Built Greek Revival House

Date: 1870
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...
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Group of People in Carriage by House

Date: 1870
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...
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People on Horses

Date: 1870
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...
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California House

Date: 1870
Description: View of the California house next to a store with a sign that reads: "M. Silber & Bro.," and a "Boot & Shoe Store." A bakery is on the left, and a group of...
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Octagon House

Date: 1870
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...
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Octagon House

Date: 1870
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...
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Fourth of July

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph of New Richmond(?) during a fourth of July celebration. Identification has not been fully verified, but there was a Coombs Hotel in this town a...
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City Hall

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph; view of the earlier City Hall building, on Market Square at the corner of E. Water Street and Oneida Street. Several signs are in the image, i...
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"Sunnybank"

Date: 1870
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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Pinckney Street

Date: 1870
Description: View overlooking Pinckney Street on the Square with the American Hotel in the background.
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City Hall - Anaglyph

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph; view of the earlier City Hall building, on Market Square at the corner of E. Water Street and Oneida Street. Several signs are in the image, i...

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