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| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Here Dahl used "The Old Oaken Bucket" motif — a man drinking water from a pail at a well in foreground with family sitting and standing at a table with cof... |
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| Description: | Harmon J. Hill and family, all dressed formally, posing in front of their home. This sandstone house was built in 1857 and later became part of the Univers... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | View of main street in Lake Mills. On the left of the image are the Fargo and Ostrander store, Farmer's Cash Store and Drugs, and A.J. Foster Harness Shop.... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Talus Slope at Devil's Lake. Rocky shoreline with slope, pine trees, rock pile and formation. |
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| Description: | The interior of the Ole Bull Residence at 130 East Gilman Street, featuring good views of Victorian furniture, carpeting, lamps (including a crystal chande... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Wedding at the Norway Grove Lutheran Church. |
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| Description: | A group of men pose in the yard of the Tonyawatha House, later the Tonyawatha Spring Hotel with paddles and carpentry tools. The hotel is a frame bracket s... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | The Reliance Flooring Mill. Men are posing in front, and another man is on a horse-drawn vehicle near the loading dock. The mill building was physically mo... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | The home of I.G. Merrill, located on the corner of Ann Street (now called Sheridan Road) and Prairie Avenue, in the winter. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | The S.S. Kresge Company building at 25-27 East Main Street. Several businesses, including Rowley & Co., a general store, and S. Klauber dry goods, are in t... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of photographer Gerhard Gesell, Sr. and his wife Christine Giesen Gesell taken shortly after their marriage in 1879. She is sitting in a ch... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Old Abe, the Wisconsin War eagle, is perched outdoors with his wings stretched a little, on a stars and stripes shield near a cannon with a flag in the bac... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Cabinet card photograph by Scholl of Philadelphia of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgie Drew who married in December 1879. Successful actors, their c... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Composite photograph of the Wisconsin Senate of 1879. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Stereograph portrait of Old Abe, the mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Civil War Volunteer Infantry at the capital building. Rear view of Old Abe perched on a sh... |
| 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: | Stereograph of "Old Abe," eagle mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Regiment. Rear view of Old Abe perched on a cannon, with his head turned to the right. Included... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Professor Irving Roland. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Sixth-plate ferrotype/tintype. Waist-up portrait of Theodore Bernhard, from Watertown, Wisconsin. Educator, member of the assembly in 1854. He is facing to... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Superintendent's residence at State Fish Hatchery. |
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