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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Street parade rig, apparently to agitate against delays in construction of a railroad to connect Manitowoc to the west. In the background is a store owned ... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Frances (Mrs. Lucius) Fairchild. |
| 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: | Waist-up portrait of Lucius Fairchild during his tenure as Secretary of State of Wisconsin. Fairchild's arm was amputated after he was injured at the Battl... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Susan B. Anthony on her 50th birthday. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The third Wisconsin Capitol (the second in Madison) as it appeared shortly after the construction was completed. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Benjamin Walker Castle, 1862-1893, 900 block East Gorham Street. There are two deer are the left near trees, and two people are on horseback near the front... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Wisconsin politician Bartholomew Ringle. Ringle served as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly as well as mayor of Wausau. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Compsite photograph of the Wisconsin Senate with members identified with key. The portraits are numbered left to right, starting at the upper left. Additio... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Composite photograph of the Wisconsin Assembly, including a name key. The portraits are numbered left to right, starting at the upper left. Additional info... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Horatio Gates Howard Reed, member of the 1870 Wisconsin Assembly. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Portion of City Hall with a flag flying from the roof. There is another building across the street, and horse-drawn carriages and people on the road. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Governor Lucius Fairchild, and his wife, Frances (Bull) Fairchild. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Crowd gathered at Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Station to see off a colony of emigrants from Chicago who planned to settle in Colorado on a tract of land p... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of a stuffed bald eagle, purportedly, Old Abe. There is a flag at the left and at the bottom is written "The Eagel [sic] o... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Old Abe, eagle mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. Old Abe is perched on a plank of wood with the American flag painted on it. The portrait is... |
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