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| Date: | 11 25 1871 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Norwegian Sunday School Picnic at Mendota steamboat landing. Small lake steamer "Mendota" could reach speeds of up to 18 mph. The barge "Uncle Sam" was 75f... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | This bird's-eye-view map shows roads, a river with boats, and homes. The bottom margin of the map includes an index. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Newspaper reproduction of an etching of the Milwaukee River. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of nine rafters wintering at Reed's Landing. At left is Hiram Price, with L.W. Crane beside her. Third is Annie Girdon w... |
| Date: | 02 21 1874 |
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| Description: | African American boatmen run a rapids in a small river boat. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Hudson, with insets of Court House and Public School. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of La Crosse from the Mississippi River. |
| Date: | 10 14 1871 |
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| Description: | Pilgrims kneeling and praying at the holy well near Galway, Ireland. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Chippewa Falls. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Janesville on the Rock River. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of the city of Manitowoc with a population of 5,168 inhabitants as it appears in 1870, the year the village was granted a city charter by t... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Birds-eye drawing of Oconomowoc depicts street names and street layouts, houses, trees, Oconomowoc River, Fowler Lake, and La Belle Lake. A reference key a... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Two Rivers. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Waukesha, looking southwest, with insets of State Industrial School, Court House, and Fountain Spring House. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Whitewater, with insets. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of people, elegantly dressed, posing on a pier, with a steamboat and rowboats docked on it on Devil's Lake. An American flag is on the steamb... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | View from above, of a pond and a farmstead. A man is in a boat on the water and another man is in a wagon on shore near a fence. In the background are so... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a very large number of judges standing crowded at the very small end of a pier in Devil's Lake. The occasion is the Grand Regatta held June ... |
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