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Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company

Date: 1896
Description: A view of Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company mills. Established about 1896 by John Edwards.
Photograph

Children of Cyrus McCormick, Jr.

Date: 1896
Description: Portrait of young Gordon, Cyrus III, and Elizabeth, the children of Cyrus McCormick Jr. Cyrus III is wearing a sailor suit, while Elizabeth and Gordon wea...
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Men on Scaffolding at Montello School House

Date: 1896
Description: Group of men posing in front of and on the scaffolding surrounding the Montello School House. The building was completed in 1896.
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Bass Family Home on Clay Street

Date: 1896
Description: Children on the back porch of the Bass family home, 207 Clay Street.
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Silver Spring

Date: 1896
Description: View of Silver Spring and the surrounding countryside. In the background, there is a man on a bicycle, two individuals in a horse-drawn vehicle and a small...
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Looking West from the Wisconsin State Capitol Dome

Date: 1896
Description: View from the Wisconsin State Capitol dome looking west towards Bascom Hill. Mifflin street with City Hall and the Fuller Opera House are in the foreground...
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Old Water Works

Date: 1896
Description: View of the Old Water Works on East Washington Avenue, as seen from the Capitol Square.
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Woman with Bicycle

Date: 1896
Description: Woman sitting on a bicycle in front of a stoop with metalwork railing. Another bicycle sits on the porch behind her. She is wearing a hat, and a long skirt...
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Passsenger Pigeon: Rear View with Head in Profile

Date: 1896
Description: Rear view of a passenger pigeon with its head in profile. This species of pigeon is now extinct. The pigeon lived in captivity under the direction of Profe...
Print

Republican Party Protecting the Working Man

Date: 1896
Description: A political cartoon satirizing the Republican Party as a bloated man squashing the Labor Party, which is depicted as a working man.
Poster

"The Real Issue" Poster

Date: 1896
Description: A poster from the McKinley-Hobart campaign with the message "The Real Issue," showing William J. Bryant opening the U.S. Mint to the silver of the world, w...
Photograph

Lenore Harrison Cawker with Bird

Date: 1896
Description: Studio portrait of Lenore Harrison Cawker holding a parrot on her hand.
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Cary Bass

Date: 1896
Description: A cabinet card studio portrait of Edward Cary Bass, son of Dr. Edward A. Bass.
Photograph

Law Building

Date: 1896
Description: Two young children are standing on a snow-covered Bascom Hill, with the Law Building in the background on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Photograph

Experimental Tractor

Date: 1896
Description: 40 H.P. experimental tractor. Original caption reads: "40 H.P., Built in 1896."
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Leroy Burlingame, Children and Cuff

Date: 1896
Description: The photographer's father-in-law, Leroy J. Burlingame, with Everetta and Cary Bass and the dog, Cuff in the yard of a house. An unidentified woman stands ...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Two Ho-Chunk Women

Date: 1896
Description: Studio full-length portrait of two unidentified Ho-Chunk women posing in front of a painted backdrop. The woman standing on the left is wearing several nec...
Photograph

Leroy J. Burlingame

Date: 1896
Description: Leroy J. Burlingame, sitting in a chair in the Montello home of his son-in-law and daughter, Dr. and Mrs. Edward A. Bass. Another person, obscured, is stan...
Photograph

Wisconsin Dells from Sliding Rock

Date: 1896
Description: Elevated panoramic view of a section of the Wisconsin Dells and the Wisconsin River visible from the "Sliding Rock." In the lower left hand corner the word...
Book or Pamphlet

Woman's Path From Servitutde to Freedom

Date: 1896
Description: Illustration from the Freethinkers Pictorial Text Book of a woman climbing a steep, rocky slope to a sign that reads "Come Up Higher / The Free Thou...

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