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Lumber Raft on the Chippewa River

Date: 1870
Description: Elevated view of lumber raft and workers on the Chippewa River. In the background on the right are dwellings.
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Steamboat "Clyde"

Date: 1870
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...
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Unloading the Arkansas

Date: 1870
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...
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The Red Wing

Date: 1870
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...
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Milwaukee Grain Elevator

Date: 1870
Description: The Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company grain elevator at the Milwaukee harbor, with a sailing ship anchored nearby.
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Group Beside Spring

Date: 1870
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.
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Children on Picnic at Lakeshore

Date: 1870
Description: Large picnic group, mainly children, at lakeshore, possibly McBride's Point in Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison.
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Northwest Intersection at Fourth and Water

Date: 1870
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...
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Steamboat at Ingram & Kennedy's

Date: 1870
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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Kiel Hotel

Date: 1870
Description: View across water towards the Kiel Hotel.
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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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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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Lake Michigan Shoreline

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph; looking north from the end of Oneida Street along shoreline.
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Lake La Belle

Date: 1870
Description: View from shore of sailboat anchored on the lake. There appears to be an island in the upper left.
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"Sunnybank"

Date: 1870
Description: Two men are in the foreground on a shoreline, one standing in a boat. In the background on the other shoreline are adults and children sitting in the gras...
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Birch Walk at Kelly Lake

Date: 1870
Description: View of two lakeside cottage, which have docks and porches that overlook the lake. Caption reads: "Birch Walk, Kelly Lake, Wis."
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Stereograph of the St. Croix River

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph of the dalles of the St. Croix river, on the Wisconsin-Minnesota border. Along the shoreline on the right, a woman in a long dress is posing on...
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Lindstrom Pop Factory

Date: 1870
Description: View across water towards where brothers John and August Lindstrom had a pop factory at 409 N. Blair Street during the 1870s and 1880s. They lived above th...
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The Steamer Ellen Hardy

Date: 1870
Description: Elevated view of the steamer Ellen Hardy at dock. Text on the bottom left reads: "'Ellen Hardy' at Pr-Du-Sac. in 1870." The Ellen Hardy belo...

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