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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: | 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: | Bird's-eye view of Whitewater, with insets. |
| 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: | 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Five piece panoramic view of the Green Bay waterfront area. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over river of Dodge Street in Janesville looking west. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Habheger's Bowling Park at the North Fourth Street bridge. A group of people are standing on the bridge. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The corner of unpaved Main Street and Tayco Street looking south towards Doty Island. The slanting timbers controlled the primitive draw bridge across the ... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A stereograph of the Menasha Wooden Ware factory. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of an elevated view of the industrial section along the Fox River in Menasha. During this period the millers in Menasha were beginning to inves... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| 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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