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| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Dirt trail passing log shack that was probably the home of Michael and Madeline Cadotte. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | A view from the capitol looking west up State Street toward the University of Wisconsin-Madison with the Holy Redeemer Church, Holy Redeemer School, Red Gy... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | De Pere lock on the Fox River with a construction crew at work. This is the only wooden lock on the Fox River. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Locks near De Pere, the only wooden pier on the Fox River. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | View down dirt road, with a few homes on each side of the lane. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | A dirt street in the business district of Wheeler. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Road lined with fences leading into town. Several houses are visible in the distance. A railroad track and electric or telegraph line runs along the left s... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Thomas B. Jeffery, founder of the Thomas B. Jeffery Company of Kenosha in 1902. Before that Jeffery produced several experimental automobiles, including th... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Lumbertown Street (Now Highway 47). There are horse-drawn carts and a car. Sailors burned down Lumbertown in 1897. It was later built up as a resort town.... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | View through trees and lawn towards the northwest across Park Street of Science Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | This 1897 map of Sawyer County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range system, sections, roads, farm houses, camps, school houses, dams, bridges, Indian r... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Aerial view drawing of a velodrome with racers on the oval track and stands full of spectators. Signage on the outer wall indicates that it is the Racine A... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of excursion boat docked in a wooded area. From left to right: Mary ??, Elizabeth Layton, Grace Hayman, Henry Wallis (owner of the Fren... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Engineer Daniel Sage and fireman Omro B. Mills standing next to Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Engine No. 511. The locomotive was formerly No. 62... |
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