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| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men operating a hay press powered by an International Harvester stationary engine as a woman is looking on. They are working near a barn which has chink-lo... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Group of people posing outside of Soldiers' Orphans Home, located on Spaight Street between Paterson and Brearly Streets. The building was originally const... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | This building, on an entire block of Spaight and Brearly Streets with Lake Monona, was originally the governor's mansion for Leonard J. Farwell. The Farwel... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Madison's old Central Fire Station (1881-1904), 10 South Webster Street, with two ladder wagons pictured in front of the station. The wagon on the left is ... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A Menominee child, probably photographed on the reservation near Keshena and Neopit, Wisconsin. He is standing outside in front of a log cabin, and an axe ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Institutional fire fighting department at the Northern Hospital for the Insane, executing drills on the exterior of the building. Fire fighting equipment i... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | View framed by trees of a barnyard at the N. Lunde farm. Cattle and three men are standing in an enclosed yard in front of a barn with a cupola. One of the... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Four women are posing in a yard among trees, and one woman is sitting on the porch of the house. A dog is sitting in a chair in the yard near one of the wo... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A couple with three children posing in a yard. The woman has a sewing machine, the man has a table saw and lathe. The two-story frame house has a glass pan... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Family in front of large brick rural house that has shutters, elongated basement windows and large bay window. A man sits with a hand scythe at the right. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Some men are in a yard sitting and standing with scythe, rake and pitch fork. A woman sits on the front porch of a frame house with shutters, one closed on... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Family by wood fence with one child sitting on top of gate; wood house with upper window shutter closed and shutter trim around doorway; trellis by porch. ... |
| Date: | 08 29 1876 |
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| Description: | The extended family of Aslak Olsen Lie posing before the home he built in 1849 with his brother Ole after immigrating in 1848. The house is a combination o... |
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| Description: | View of the exterior of the carriage house in the spring or summer, with miscellaneous tools and other items littered throughout the yard. A wooden stairwa... |
| Date: | 07 20 1926 |
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| Description: | Two men are using a fire hose to spray the corner of a brick building with a bell tower. Another man is sitting in an International Model S truck operated ... |
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| Description: | A large Victorian-style house gutted by a fire. Ladders are leaning up on the sides, reaching up many different levels. Two people are on the roof spraying... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Several men, some in Native American dress, stand on the roof of Parson's Indian Trading Post. The building is designed to look like a pueblo. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn fire wagon in front of several brick buildings, including the Capitol Publishing building, near the water tower. The man driving the wagon may... |
| Date: | 06 15 1949 |
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| Description: | The Shell filling station, 341 State Street as workers are starting to tear it down. The station, built in 1924 and at one time adjudged the second most be... |
| Date: | 06 15 1948 |
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| Description: | The Shell filling station, 341 State Street, as workers are starting to tear it down. The station, built in 1924 and at one time judged the second most bea... |
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