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| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Street scene showing destruction after Peshtigo fire. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Fire destruction near railroad tracks after Peshtigo fire. There are wheel carriages from destroyed boxcars on and near the tracks. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | View of bluffs and buildings on the shore of Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | McCormick Self-Rake reaper in front of a fence or wall in a factory(?) yard. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | View of Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute). |
| 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: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Quite possibly this is the "View of the Dining Tent" listed in the "Centennial Views of the City of Madison, July 4th, 1876. Views of Chicago Light Guard" ... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Andrew Dahl's wagon is on the side of a two-story log house in Blue Mounds. On one side of the wagon cover is "A.L. Dahl Landscape Photographer." On the ba... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View, through a cornfield, of people, a store, a sawmill and wagons. Moscow was platted in 1850 by an Englishman, Chauncy Smith, who dammed the Bluemound ... |
| Date: | 09 10 1879 |
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| Description: | Crowd at the Camp Randall fairgrounds watching a horse race, part of that year's Wisconsin State Fair. Carriages and people are near buildings on the left,... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | An artist's depiction of an elevated view of the first State Fish Hatchery (aka Nevin Fish Hatchery, 3911 Fish Hatchery Road). |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | An advertisement featuring Wauwatosa, showing the First Baptist Church, on the left, built in 1854 and the First Congregational Church, on the right built ... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of Glenn's mineral spring with a group of people gathered around it. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Habheger's Bowling Park at the North Fourth Street bridge. A group of people are standing on the bridge. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view across what may be the Fox River, or a field with snow on the ground. There are large buildings behind a fence in the background. Caption ... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Fort Crawford ruins. This image may be even earlier than 1875; by the 1880's almost nothing was left of the actual fort compound buildings. Men are sitting... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Dousman Warehouse, East Water Street. Originally located on the wharf parallel with the river. Built and used by George and Talbot, brothers of Hercules Do... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of artesian well, apparently not the same one that was located near the intersection of Wisconsin Street and South Minnesota Street (since rena... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | A view of the office of the Wisconsin State Resister. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View of the gate and gatehouse at Hillside cemetery. Caption reads: "Hillside Cemetery, Whitewater, Wis." |
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