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| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Peter Selb, Ben Dietrich, J.A. Lockwood, Matt Dietrich, and John Downing pose around the hand engine of the volunteer fire department. All but Selb were ch... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Formal portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Frances Folsom Cleveland, wife of President Grover Cleveland, during his first term. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of the Wisconsin Fish Hatchery at Fitchburg. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Tonyawatha Spring Hotel on Lake Monona. The hotel, on the east shore of the lake, is located in Blooming Grove Township, just... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | A studio group portrait of the Oshkosh baseball team, "The Famous Team of 1887". All the players are wearing formal suits rather than baseball uniforms. In... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of a woman in Ho-Chunk regalia wrapped in a blanket, with a child on her back. The child is wearing a fur hat, and they are ... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Full-length cabinet card of two young children in front of a painted backdrop of the ocean. They are attired in coats, dresses and hats, and are holding ha... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Lillie Langtry is in character as the adventuress Lena Despard from the play "As in a Looking-Glass." In this full-length portrait, she is seated, facing ... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | City water works system map. Pencil annotation on the top right reads: "Period represented is after 1887 and before Aug. 1891". The middle of the map has a... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Shows pipes of various sizes, hydrants with hydrant pressure, valves, wells, and projected lines. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | This map shows sewers, manholes, streets, canals, rivers, and Lake Michigan. An explanation of sewer types is included. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Group studio portrait in front of a painted background. Catherine Orb Seipp, seated at left, poses with her children. From left: Conrad, Clara, Emma (stand... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Black and white illustration of the Proud Mary Hotel (now the Whistling Swan). |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Formal portrait of Bernhard Stieg, a pharmacist, & Mary (Dittbermer) Stieg, a milliner, in their wedding clothes. Bernhard is seated and wearing a dark sui... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Waist-up carte-de-visite portrait of Richard Adams, a member of the 16th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Company "F." |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of a woman identified as "Mrs. Adams." |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | A view of the businesses present on Silver Street, Hurley's main street, less than three years after the city's settlement. City residents and a horse-dra... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Vignetted head and shoulders carte-de-visite portrait of Katharine Allen, daughter of historian and UW-Madison classics professor William Francis Allen. Ca... |
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