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| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commercially successful reaper, a hor... |
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| Description: | Hop harvesters, mostly female, stand with hops, probably on the farm of Knudt Heimdal. Many of the harvesters have hop wreaths on their heads. Two men with... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Norwegian Sunday School Picnic at Mendota steamboat landing. Small lake steamer "Mendota" could reach speeds of up to 18 mph. The barge "Uncle Sam" was 75f... |
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| Description: | This is said to be the family of Hans Holtan (a.k.a. Austinson) posed in the yard before a frame house that has carpenter's lace on porch, two separate doo... |
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| Description: | Three men taking a break during harvesting. Their horse-drawn reaper raked the grain into rows as it cut. In the background are various farmstead buildings... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Five men, facing away from the camera, are standing in a field. Some of them are holding a rakes and a scythe. A boy is in the foreground facing the camera... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Stereograph portrait of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., taken during his senior year at the University of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | The facade of the McCormick family residence at 675 Rush Street, which takes up an entire block between Erie and Huron Streets. Cyrus Hall McCormick, Sr. h... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Carl Schurz, seated, holding a hat and cane. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Formal full-length studio portrait of Elizabeth Therese Baird wearing a long, black dress. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Harold and Gunhild Mickelson with five of their daughters (Bertha Mickelson Bragger and her husband are standing on the right), in Section 23 of the Town o... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | A group of men posing in the yard of the Tonyawatha House, later the Tonyawatha Spring Hotel, with paddles and carpentry tools. The hotel is a frame bracke... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | A family is gathered around a table in the yard. Behind them is a fence and behind that a frame house is seen in a three-quarter view. It has arched second... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | A family is grouped around a table, including a man with a top hat, two dolls on the ground between two small girls and a woman holding a closed fan. Behin... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | An extended family of twenty-one people is gathered in the yard and on the porch of a large bracket style frame house that has carpenter's lace on its porc... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Family in yard around a table, with wood fence and frame house behind; one lady has a stereoscope in her lap. The house has an angular small addition with ... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Two men in hats, one with a walking cane, are standing in front of a frame house that has a small porch with latticework in front and a Hekla Fire Insuranc... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Large family group, and dog in right foreground, around table that has large books on it. A little girl sitting on the grass in front of the table has a do... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | View of the superintendent's residence at the Wisconsin State Fish Hatchery (aka Nevin Fish Hatchery, 3911 Fish Hatchery Rd.), a frame house on a stone fou... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | A family sits in a yard around a table. Behind them is a fence and a wood frame house with curved shutters, four chimneys and lightning rods. |
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