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| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | View across the Tennessee River toward the city and Cameron Hill, showing the military bridge and some Union Army installations put up following the occupa... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Aerial view, probably from a lithograph, of the prison for Confederate soldiers at Rock Island. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Lithograph illustration of downtown Chicago near the Rush Street bridge (a "swing bridge"). The McCormick Reaper Works and other factory buildings are on t... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A view of the World's Columbian Exposition mounted on a cardboard album page, looking east from the Transportation Building. On the right are the Mines Bui... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of downtown Chicago before the fire of 1871. The photograph was taken from the South side of the Chicago River, looking Northeast. The Rush ... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A large group of men are snagging sturgeon from a bridge over the Wolf River. A sturgeon is hanging from a line. More men are sitting on a bridge support, ... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | The south bank of the Chattahoochie River with a bridge spanning it. In the foreground are some battlements. Plate 33 |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Two log buildings are in the foreground. A bridge spans a river in the middle distance, and the city of Chattanooga is on the far side at the base of a mou... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | View down to valley of Union soldiers posing on the roof of a log building. A log bridge crosses a stream, and many trees are on the hillsides. Plate 05... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of "Two different views of the Falls from Canada side," from the series "Niagara Falls and Suspension Bridge" as mentioned in Dahl's 1877 "Cata... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | "Iron Bridge across Mississippi" photographed during "The Norwegian Lutheran Synod held at Minneapolis, Minn., 1875," as described in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogu... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | An A.L. Dahl photograph, one of "Two different side views of the Suspension Bridge," from the series "Niagara Falls and Suspension Bridge" as mentioned in ... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | "St. Anthony Falls" photographed during the "Norwegian Lutheran Synod held at Minneapolis, Minn., 1875," as listed in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopi... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | An A.L. Dahl photograph, one of "Two different views of the Falls from Canada side," from the series "Niagara Falls and Suspension Bridge" as mentioned in ... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | "Top view of Suspension Bridge," from the series "Niagara Falls and Suspension Bridge" as noted in his 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views." |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph. Part of a bridge is visible in the lower left corner. Under the bridge is a floating pier with advertisements painted on its sides. Another br... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Wisconsin Street seen from Spring Street. The building on the left nearest the bridge was the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway's downto... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the Axtell House building, with a storefront next to it advertising "Clothing Hats Caps Sailors Outfits". A bridge is on the left and a man... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Main Street bridge, looking toward a section of the city known locally as Brooklyn. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Illinois Central World's Fair Transportation Center at Van Buren Street. Several pedestrians cross a bridge leading to trains and lake... |
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