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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: | The sidewheel steam rafter "Clyde," which was the first iron hull steamboat. Sign on side of boat reads: "Dubuque, Reads Landing & Eau Claire." Agricultura... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Sidewheel rafter, Annie Girdon. The crew is on deck and a raft of logs is in the foreground. Sign on wheel reads Annie Girdon, lightning pack... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel packet, Arkansas, loaded with gunny sacks of wheat taken between 1872 and 1878. Men are unloading barrels and gunny sacks on a gangpl... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, Minnieta, on the Chippewa River, Wisconsin, in the 1870's. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel packet, Red Wing, at a landing on the upper Mississippi River between 1870 and 1882. The sign painted over the wheel reads: "Keokuk N... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Whitewater, with insets. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company grain elevator at the Milwaukee harbor, with a sailing ship anchored nearby. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Milwaukee River with large sailing ship - a two-masted schooner - entering the port. |
| 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: | 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: | Group of people sitting beside spring, perhaps at Winnequah or Picnic Point in Madison. All of them are either holding or are wearing hats. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Large picnic group, mainly children, at lakeshore, possibly McBride's Point in Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Family sitting in chairs in front of fence, with two men standing behind the fence near a well wearing top hats. A frame house with a porch is behind them. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a lake scene in Madison, probably looking south on Lake Monona at a boat race in progress. From the series "The Beauties of the City of Madi... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph looking south from the post office at the corner of Mifflin Street and Wisconsin Avenue across one corner of the Capitol Square toward Grace Ep... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Overlook of the river, and a building near the dam from a steep hillside. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View from a hillside of either houses or factory buildings on the Fox River near a dam. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the town, looking northwest. The Chippewa River is in the foreground, with a lot of buildings, an intersection, and distant hills. One bui... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View of the town and Chippewa river, with a steamboat in the center along the riverbank. A smaller boat is next to the steamboat, with a man standing eithe... |
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