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Andreas Dahl and the Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 1876
Description: Stereograph. This view from East Washington Avenue shows photographer Andrew Dahl on his horse "Curnel" in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Dahl had j...
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La Crosse Bird's-Eye Map

Date: 1876
Description: Bird's-eye view of La Crosse.
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Norwegian-style Barn with Cupola

Date: 1876
Description: Distant view from hill of a barnyard with people, split-rail fencing, cattle, a Norwegian-style barn with cupola and rooster weather vane and an animal bui...
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Family outside for Coffee

Date: 1876
Description: A family is grouped around a table set for coffee in a yard and on the porch of a house in a grove. House has "rounded rock" foundation and brackets.
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Family in front of Norwegian Style House

Date: 1876
Description: A family of six are posing in front of a fancy picket fence with an ornate Norwegian folk-style gate. The two-story frame house has a front porch decorated...
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Four Children and a Couple

Date: 1876
Description: Four children and a couple stand in a yard behind a picket fence and before a Greek Revival frame house with shutters.
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M.K. Dahl House

Date: 1876
Description: Group of people in front of iron fence with wagon and carriage; large brick mansardic house in background has large bay window on upper and lower stories, ...
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Woman Knitting with Family

Date: 1876
Description: Family around table in yard. Four women, three men, and four children. The woman at far left is knitting, and on the far right is a dog. In the background ...
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L.E. Johnson and B.F. Halin

Date: 1876
Description: Family, including a woman, young man and man sitting around table in a yard, with a two-story stone house with a porch on at least two sides. A young girl ...
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Mapleside Home

Date: 1876
Description: Mapleside, the home built by Able Dunning in 1853 on what is now University Avenue. It was razed in 1970 to make way for a Burger King restaurant.
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Family of Eight

Date: 1876
Description: Family of eight seated in a semi-circle in yard with a stucco upright and wing house in the background.
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View of Wisconsin State Capitol with Flags

Date: 1876
Description: "View of the Capitol, with all the Flags" one of four "Different Views of Parades in the Streets" identified in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic View...
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First Norwegian Lutheran Church and Luther College

Date: 1876
Description: Elevated view of First Norwegian Lutheran Church, with Luther College in the distance. Part of a set of stereographs entitled "The Synod at Decorah, 1876" ...
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Congregation of First Norwegian Lutheran Church

Date: 1876
Description: First Norwegian Lutheran Church with congregation posed outside the front entrance, part of a set of stereographs entitled "The Synod at Decorah, 1876" fro...
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Side View of First Norwegian Lutheran Church

Date: 1876
Description: View of the front and side of the First Norwegian Lutheran Church. Trees along the sidewalk have protective wooden trellises. This view is part of a set o...
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Small School with Children

Date: 1876
Description: Group portrait of children and teaches posing in front of a small frame school building.
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Lodi From Cemetery Hill

Date: 1876
Description: A view of the town of Lodi as viewed from the hill north of the cemetery.
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View up Wisconsin Avenue toward Lake Mendota

Date: 1876
Description: Elevated view from the Wisconsin State Capitol looking north to Lake Mendota along Wisconsin Avenue. City Hall is on the left, built in 1858, and the Feder...
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Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 1876
Description: Exterior view of the Wisconsin State Capitol, mostly obscured by trees.
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East Blue Mounds Lutheran Church

Date: 1876
Description: East Blue Mounds Lutheran Church, formerly Norsk Evangelisk Kirke, built in 1868. The graves of Andreas L. Dahl's mother, Berthe Nelsdatter (Lund) Dahlen, ...

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