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| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | First electric street railway service in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view down East Water Street from Wisconsin Avenue, with buildings, people, and street traffic including horse-drawn vehicles and a horse-drawn str... |
| Date: | 10 07 1887 |
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| Description: | Military parade on Main Street honoring President Grover Cleveland's visit to Madison. Soldiers of the University Battalion are marching on West Main Stree... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking west from the Jackson County Courthouse. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of three-story brick building on a dirt road. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view with the Meggett building on the right hand side, and another building along the left hand side. A church's steeple is visible behind the ... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Three or four-story brick building, with a "Drug Book Store" sign at the front, and a stair wrapping around the side of the building up to a balcony. A man... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View across unpaved Main Street, with storefronts on the right, including a restaurant and meat market. Caption reads: "Main Street". |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Madison City Hall, 2 West Mifflin Street built in 1857. |
| Date: | 10 08 1887 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of parade celebrating President Grover Cleveland's visit, coming up King Street to the Wisconsin State Capitol from the East Madison Depot. T... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street. On the left a man is driving a wagon with a team of two horses, and on the right a man stands on a wagon pulled by one horse. Houses... |
| Date: | 03 04 1881 |
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| Description: | Several people are standing on a large snow bank on 8th Street, looking north after the big snowstorm of 1881. Signs hanging over the sidewalk attached to ... |
| Date: | 03 04 1881 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of a commercial street after the "big snow" of 1881, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of Sheboygan after a heavy snowfall. Mr. Henry C. Mueller can be seen on the top of the three-story building which he built in 1871. Many peop... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | View of unpaved Water Street, featuring a group of patrons standing in the entrance of A. Becker's Saloon. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Looking north on Main Street, from the Square, Manufacturer's National Bank at 440 Main Street. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of the Westside Courthouse Square in Monroe. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from city hall of commercial street in downtown area. Caption reads: "Bird's-eye form City Hall, Southwest". |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | A distant view of St. Mary's Church. Looking north from the corner of Main and Franklin Streets. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Caption on reverse side of stereograph reads, "Governmental buildings, Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and Hospital over Lake Mendota-looking from Capitol ... |
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