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Village Across Pond

Date: 1875
Description: A view of the village from a nearby bluff across a pond. Men, women and children, standing spaced apart, are posing in the field near the pond.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Mazomanie, Dane County, Wis.

Date: 1875
Description: Bird's-eye map of Mazomanie.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Richland Center

Date: 1875
Description: Bird's-eye map of Richland Center.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Waterloo

Date: 1875
Description: Bird's-eye view of Waterloo.
Photograph

Skavlem Family and Frame House

Date: 1875
Description: Family posing outdoors around a table in front of a frame house. There are two men with newspapers, girls with watermelon, and a woman on the porch of the ...
Photograph

Frame House with Fenced Yard

Date: 1875
Description: View from road down wooden sidewalk which runs adjacent to an elaborate fence along a yard, behind which women stand near the front porch of a frame house ...
Photograph

Halle Steensland and Family

Date: 1875
Description: Halle Steensland and his wife Sophia pose with their five children (left to right: Morten, Henry, Edward, Halbert and Helen) in front of their home in Mapl...
Photograph

People in front of Park Hotel

Date: 1875
Description: Park Hotel on the corner of Main and Carroll Streets. The Park Hotel wagon and baggage wagon are in front of the hotel. People are in front of the building...
Photograph

J.S. Morris Carriage and Sleigh Factory

Date: 1875
Description: View of the J.S. Morris Carriage and Sleigh Factory, a two-story frame building on Franklin Street in Waupun. Carriages and men in work aprons are in front...
Photograph

Students by Brick High School

Date: 1875
Description: View across wooden platform of a brick high school on a hill surrounded by a fence. The school has a mansard roof and what appears to be a bell tower above...
Photograph

First School House in DeForest Wis.

Date: 1875
Description: The first school house in DeForest is a frame, one-story building with shutters. The group posed in front consists of the woman teacher and her students. B...
Photograph

Madison's Federal Post Office

Date: 1875
Description: The City of Madison, Federal Post Office, at the corner of Wisconsin and Mifflin Streets. The cornerstone was laid on May 27, 1869. The building was demoli...
Photograph

Capitol Square

Date: 1875
Description: View of the Capitol Square from the roof of the Wisconsin State Capitol, looking south. The view includes the Park Hotel, The Baptist Church and St. Raphae...
Photograph

Iron Bridge across Mississippi

Date: 1875
Description: "Iron Bridge across Mississippi" photographed during "The Norwegian Lutheran Synod held at Minneapolis, Minn., 1875," as described in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogu...
Photograph

View of Bayfield

Date: 1875
Description: Stereograph of Bayfield.
Photograph

Sawmill

Date: 1875
Description: Stereograph view of Bayfield with a sawmill in the foreground.
Photograph

South Broadway Near the River

Date: 1875
Description: Elevated view of a shopping district street near a river, with several businesses lining the street, and two carriages. A building across the street has le...
Photograph

Water Street in Eau Claire

Date: 1875
Description: Water street, before the fire of the 1880's, from the corner of Fifth avenue, looking east with storefronts and fire engine house.
Photograph

Across Bridge in Winneconne

Date: 1875
Description: View down unpaved street in Winneconne towards the bridge from the east side of town. Storefronts on the left have signs for "Stoves & Tinware" and "Harnes...
Painting

State Fish Hatchery

Date: 1875
Description: An artist's depiction of an elevated view of the first State Fish Hatchery (aka Nevin Fish Hatchery, 3911 Fish Hatchery Road).

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