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| Description: | Alleged to be the earliest known view of St. Mary's Institute, which later became St. Mary's College. One-half of a stereograph. |
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| Description: | A farmer driving a horse-drawn wagon with milk cans. Behind him is a frame structure, possibly a cheese factory, with a porch and a full door on the second... |
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| Description: | A family is seated in chairs in the middle of a street in front of a frame house with shuttered windows. Adjoining this house is what may be a commercial s... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Ole Bull Residence, 130 East Gilman Street. The family is playing croquet on the lawn. Later, the house was known as the Thorp House. It became the state's... |
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| Description: | People stand on a sidewalk and porch in front of a frame store. Farm machinery is on the side of the store. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a railroad crew on and around a handcar. A man and a young boy stand on the left near a track switch. In the background is a variety stor... |
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| Description: | Two woman sitting in Oak Hill Cemetery. Board fencing, with a set of steps near the gate, surrounds the graveyard. Picket fences set off some of the headst... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Exterior elevated view of the Saint Julien Billiard Rooms on Main Street on the Fourth of July. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill of the freight steamer "Cornucopia" loading hides at the Hammond Brothers warehouse, with Lawrence University buildings on the hill... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Wind powered stone grist mill. Two men stand on a wood balcony near the open doorway of the windmill. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking down Main Street. There are horse-drawn vehicles, and pedestrians are walking on the street and sidewalks. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of an elevated view of Wisconsin Avenue with Lake Mendota in the background. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | A lithograph of the layout of Hooley's Opera House. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | View across road towards the State Normal School. A fence runs along the front of the school. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | This photograph was made soon after the building was completed. It shows a five-leveled structure which was cut down to two and one-half levels in 1921. At... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | View from the path leading to the entrance of the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute). |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a wagon train passing through the town. There are numerous covered wagons and horses, and storefronts on both sides of the road. Caption r... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Distant view of the fledgling town showing a few log cabins, large tent buildings, saddled horses, pedestrians and a horse-drawn wagon. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Rice Lake Lumber Company Mill, taken from a high vantage point. A formation of logs is in the river, and piles of finished boards are ... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | View across street toward the hotel, at 100 Jackson Street, built in 1872. It contains decorative brickwork around all street-side windows and on the pedim... |
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