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Gay and Jessie Atwood Spencer

Date: 1883
Description: Gay and Jessie Atwood Spencer.
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Opera House

Date: 1883
Description: The Oshkosh Grand Opera House. This is the interior elevated view showing the curtain painted by Louis Kindt of Kenosha, which depicts a scene from Goethe'...
Photograph

Opera House

Date: 1883
Description: View from intersection towards the Oshkosh Grand Opera House on a street corner. The building was started in 1882 and finished in the following year at a c...
Photograph

Telephone Building on Broadway Street

Date: 1883
Description: Horse pulling a wagon in front of the telephone building. There are many telephone poles and wires along the street.
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Governmental Buildings

Date: 1883
Description: Caption on reverse side of stereograph reads, "Governmental buildings, Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and Hospital over Lake Mendota-looking from Capitol ...
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Dr. Rood's Silver Wedding Presents

Date: 1883
Description: Stereograph of silver wedding anniversary gifts at the home of Dr. Galen Geer Rood (1830-1917) and his wife Nancy Jane (Sylvester) Rood (1834-1906). The Ro...
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Chicago Milwaukee and Saint Paul Locomotive No. 71

Date: 1883
Description: CM&StP Railway locomotive no. 71 and a coal car at a roundhouse.
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The Lloyd Jones Family

Date: 1883
Description: A group portrait of about 40 members of the Lloyd Jones family. The empty chair in the front row was placed in memory of the wife of Richard Lloyd Jones.
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Babcock House

Date: 1883
Description: Exterior view of the Babcock home, a Queen Ann style structure at 537 E. Wisconsin Avenue. People, presumably the Babcock family, are standing in front of ...
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Jefferson Davis on Porch of his Residence

Date: 1883
Description: Jefferson Davis sitting in a chair on the porch of his residence.
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Governmental Buildings - Anaglyph

Date: 1883
Description: Caption on reverse side of stereograph reads: "Governmental buildings, Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and Hospital over Lake Mendota-looking from Capitol ...
Photograph

John and Ethelinda Johnston

Date: 1883
Description: Cabinet card of John (1836-1904) and Ethelinda (1856-1947) Johnston sitting on a decorative wall in front of a painted backdrop of trees. John, a successf...
Photograph

John and Ethelinda Johnston

Date: 1883
Description: Cabinet card studio portrait of John (1836-1904) and Ethelinda (1856-1947) Johnston sitting on a decorative wall in front of a painted backdrop of trees. ...
Print

Buckeye Binder Advertising Card

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising card featuring a chromolithograph of men driving horses pulling Buckeye Binders in a race. The card reads at the top: "Buckeye leads the field....
Book or Pamphlet

Keller's Advertising Brochure

Date: 1883
Description: Two panels with color illustrations of men using grain binders in a field, each is pulled by a single horse.
Book or Pamphlet

Patterson & Brothers Twine Binder Inside Spread

Date: 1883
Description: Inside spread of advertising brochure for Patterson and Brothers, manufacturers of agricultural equipment, Patterson, Ontario, Canada. Features a chromolit...
Book or Pamphlet

Toledo Mower & Reaper Co. Brochure

Date: 1883
Description: Outside of 6-panel brochure featuring three color illustrations of men using the rear cut mower, light reaper and platform twine binder.
Book or Pamphlet

Champion Harvesting Machinery

Date: 1883
Description: Inside spread of 4-page brochure featuring illustrations accompanying blocks of text explaining the features of Champion machines. The top left shows a man...
Photograph

Victoria Claflin Woodhull

Date: 1883
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Victoria Woodhull. The drawing was done during her marriage to John Biddulph Martin.
Photograph

Clara Seipp

Date: 1883
Description: A standing, full-length studio portrait of Clara Seipp, a daughter of Chicago brewer Conrad Seipp. She is dressed in a dress and coat with hat, muff and gl...

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