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National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers

Date: 1875
Description: Stereograph. Looking northwest. Designed by Edward Townsend Mix, the building is said to be Wisconsin's premier example of the Victorian Gothic style of ar...
Photograph

Robert Hall McCormick

Date: 1875
Description: Oval framed studio portrait of Robert Hall McCormick (1847-1917), son of Leander James McCormick (1819-1900). He is wearing a suit jacket and necktie.
Photograph

Cyrus McCormick, Jr.

Date: 1875
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr. (1859-1936) at about age sixteen, wearing a necktie and suit jacket.
Poster

The Flight of the Fast Mail Travel Poster

Date: 1875
Description: Colored print containing two images advertising the delivery of mail. The main image is of the large Michigan and Southern train labeled "The Fast Mail" de...
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James Sanford Home

Date: 1875
Description: Young man and two women in a horse-drawn wagon in front of the fenced yard of the James Sanford home. There is a small patch of snow on the ground in front...
Poster

Odd Fellows Poster

Date: 1875
Description: The International Order of the Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.) serve their fellow man by following the tenets of Friendship, Love, and Truth. A secret society for t...
Photograph

The Grand and Majestic Snowbanks on the Madison and Portage Railroad - Anaglyph

Date: 1875
Description: Winter scene with three men and a dog on railroad tracks, also a man in the far background. Two of the men are up on the snowbanks with shovels. "The Grand...
Print

May Christmas Be Merry

Date: 1875
Description: Round, die cut holiday card, with an ornate design on a metallic finish as the background. A rectangular framed image depicting a man walking with a staff ...
Photograph

Stephen Nicholas

Date: 1875
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Stephen Nicholas (1840-1901) of Chilton, Wisconsin. Stephen was a member of the Narragansett tribe. He served with Co. D, 1st ...
Poster

Poster for "The Shaughraun"

Date: 1875
Description: Color lithograph on paper. Title across top in caps. Below it a scene in a pub featuring three men, with the central figure propping a foot on a wooden buc...
Photograph

Group Portrait of Musical Trio

Date: 1875
Description: Ferrotype studio portrait of a musical trio in front of a painted backdrop. One man on the right sits holding a guitar, a man stands in the middle holding ...
Photograph

Chicago & Northwestern Railway Locomotive No. 390

Date: 1875
Description: View across railroad tracks towards a small group of men posing with Chicago & Northwestern Railway locomotive number 390 and a coal car. Dwellings and a c...
Photograph

Conrad Seipp

Date: 1875
Description: Oval-framed quarter-length portrait of Chicago brewer Conrad Seipp (1825-1890). He is wearing a suit and vest with bow tie. The collar of the suit coat ha...
Photograph

Oxmobile "Pioneer"

Date: 1875
Description: Team of oxen pulling a wagon in front of Schuette Brothers store grain warehouse on a muddy Jay Street. The man standing with the oxen is likely Fred Wilke...
Photograph

Schooner Hauling Lumber

Date: 1875
Description: Elevated view of a deck of a schooner hauling lumber. Several workmen are loading or unloading the lumber. Industrial buildings, some displaying signs, are...
Photograph

The Park Hotel

Date: 1875
Description: Stereograph of the 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 fr...
Photograph

Thure (Theodore) Kumlien

Date: 1875
Description: A portrait of Thure Kumlien which was taken at a photography studio in Stoughton.
Photograph

Halle Steensland and Family

Date: 1875
Description: Detail from original of part of the family and the house. Original caption reads: "Halle Steensland and his wife Sophia pose with their five children (left...
Photograph

Family at Board Fence

Date: 1875
Description: Detail from original of part of the family and the house. Original caption reads: "Family posed at board fence of brick house. Two woman, one holding a par...
Photograph

Village Across Pond

Date: 1875
Description: Detail of original. Original caption reads: "A view of the village from a nearby bluff across a pond. Men, women and children, standing spaced apart, are p...

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