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Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Locomotive

Date: 1875
Description: Locomotive No. 75. Class H. Built 1850 by Schnectady Locomotive Works. Men are posed on and around the locomotive.
Photograph

Turner House

Date: 1875
Description: Slightly elevated group portrait of men and women gathered around the Turner House, which was erected by John Turner to house railroad men and construction...
Photograph

Kilbourn City Railroad Depot

Date: 1875
Description: View towards a train at the Kilbourn City (now known as Wisconsin Dells) railroad depot, with a crowd of people on the platform.
Book or Pamphlet

Eagle Mowing and Reaping Machine Co. Catalog

Date: 1875
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Eagle Mowing and Reaping Machine Company featuring an engraved illustration of a farmer riding a horse-drawn mower...
Book or Pamphlet

Eagle Mowing and Reaping Machine Co. Catalog

Date: 1875
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Eagle Mowing and Reaping Machine Company featuring an engraved illustration of a farmer riding a horse-drawn mower...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Black River Falls, Jackson County

Date: 1875
Description: Bird's-eye map of Black River Falls, looking southwest.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Dodgeville

Date: 1875
Description: Bird's-eye map of Dodgeville, looking east, with insets of the high school and county courthouse.
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 of Platteville, Grant County, Wis. Looking North East

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

Bird's-Eye View of Oshkosh

Date: 1875
Description: Bird's-eye map after a fire destroyed a large area of the town. In memory of the Great Conflagration on April 28th, 1875. Taken from the North-Side.
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 Sun Prairie

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

Bird's-Eye View of Waterloo

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

C.H. & L.J. McCormick's Reaper Manufactory

Date: 1875
Description: Drawing of the C.H. & L.J. McCormick Reaper Manufactory (McCormick Reaper Works). The factory was built after the Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed the origin...
Photograph

Steamboat on Devil's Lake

Date: 1875
Description: Elevated view of people, elegantly dressed, posing on a pier, with a steamboat and rowboats docked on it on Devil's Lake. An American flag is on the steamb...
Photograph

Carriage and Buggy on Rural Road

Date: 1875
Description: Elevated view of a man driving a horse-drawn wagon along a rural lane with a man walking in front on the left. In the background is a field, fences, farmho...
Photograph

Family posed in front of Frame House

Date: 1875
Description: A husband and wife are posed with three sons, an infant in a baby carriage, and a Dalmatian dog, in front of a frame house with a stone foundation, shutter...
Photograph

Couple Sits in Carriage by Farm

Date: 1875
Description: A couple sits in a carriage on a road adjacent to fenced-in farm buildings and an upright and wing frame house.
Photograph

Reverend Erik Jensen and Wife with Children

Date: 1875
Description: Twenty-one children are seated on wooden benches and the ground in front of a square frame house with a hip roof and cupola. The Reverend Erik Jensen (1841...
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 ...

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