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Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane

Date: 1870
Description: Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute).
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View of Mississippi River and the St. Croix River

Date: 1870
Description: Half stereograph of an elevated view from hill showing the confluence of the Mississippi River and the St. Croix River. A man wearing a hat is in the foreg...
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Elizabeth Barnard Brown

Date: 1870
Description: Portrait of Elizabeth Barnard Brown.
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House with White Fence

Date: 1870
Description: View towards the front of a house with a white fence. Posing in front of the fence are a man (appears to be on crutches), a young child, and a dog. Other p...
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Cedar Street Bridge

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph view of Cedar Street Bridge(?) with a rocky shoreline on the left. The construction of this bridge is the same as the Cedar Street bridge, but ...
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Fox River

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph view across what may be the Fox River, or a field with snow on the ground. There are large buildings behind a fence in the background. Caption ...
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Island City Mill

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph of Island City Mill. Island City Mill was built in 1867 by Carl Stridde and A.H.F. Krueger, and also called Stridde & Krueger Mill. By 1891 it ...
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Presbyterian Church

Date: 1870
Description: Presbyterian church (old church). Caption reads: "Old Church, 1865-71".
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Industry

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph view of the flour mill district. The Cedar Street Bridge is in the background, and the mills are, right to left going back, the Winnebago Flour...
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Flour Mill District

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph of flour mill district. The Walnut Street bridge is in the background and the mill to the right is the Atlantic Mills (Neenah Stone Mills in 18...
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Cedar Street

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph of an elevated view of Cedar Street, north side.
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Elevated View of Business District

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph of an elevated view of the business district.
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Congregational Church

Date: 1870
Description: Congregational Church, also called the "old brown church" built in 1853 and burned in 1893. It was on the site of the present City Hall. The white house ne...
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View from Case's Block

Date: 1870
Description: One-half stereograph of town, elevated view looking northeast from Case's Block.
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Dousman Warehouse

Date: 1870
Description: Dousman Warehouse, East Water Street. Originally located on the wharf parallel with the river. Built and used by George and Talbot, brothers of Hercules Do...
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Pile-Pontoon Bridge

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph of John Lawler's pile-pontoon railway bridge over the Mississippi River. Three men are standing and sitting on the bridge in the foreground. Bu...
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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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Columbia County Jail

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph of the Columbia County Jail. People are on the sidewalk near the entrance.
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Portage Canal

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph of the Portage Canal.
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Robert Hall McCormick

Date: 1870
Description: Vignetted quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of Robert Hall McCormick (1847-1917), son of Leander James McCormick (1819-1900).

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