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| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Tree-lined State Street from Bascom Hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Traffic on State Street includes two well-dressed gentlemen on hors... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Loggers posing on narrow-gauge railroad tracks with a railroad velocipede and cant hook near Saddle Mound, a large hill that dominates the local area in Ja... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | A boy and a man are holding up small white pine trees, while workers are planting them at Alexander Lake's nursery. In the background are horses and wagons... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Back cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of young boys racing hom... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Darlington. Area bordered by Washington and North Streets, upper left hand corner, the fairgrounds, upper right corner, River Street, bot... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Fond du Lac, looking north west, with two insets of the P.H. Stamm residence, and the Proposed Lakeside Park. thirty-five locations ident... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Washburn, with twenty vignettes around side, water in foreground with docks and lumber corral. Thirty-three locations identified in key ... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | A portion of John B. Heim's map of the Water Works System of Madison showing the size of the third Wisconsin Capitol (228' x 226') in comparison with the C... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Central Railway's locomotive # 96 at the Waukesha depot. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Locomotive #280 at the Madison roundhouse. Identified railroad employees posed outdoors with the locomotive include: fireman ... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertising catalog for Aultman, Miller and Company, manufacturers of agricultural equipment. Features a chromolithograph of a woman sit... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Young man posing on train tracks in front of two passenger cars decorated with banners for the University of Wisconsin Glee, Banjo, and Mandolin Club. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Members of the University of Wisconsin Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Club posing at the rear of a train during the Spring Tour of 1896. Railroad employees and o... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Corner view from intersection towards the Ingram block, which contained the public library. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Jefferson Street south from Doty Street with trees lining the street. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | View of the Cereal Mills Company building, with men and a horse-drawn buggy outside on of the buildings on the right. Another man is standing on the far le... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | "Gee Whizz! Clear the track. McCormick trains are everywhere." Advertising poster describing the worldwide success of McCormick harvesting machines. Featu... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Map showing the Wisconsin Central Railroad and its land grant, with the railroad and the land grant in color (red). |
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