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| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | College Avenue looking west from the corner of Morrison Street. The building on the left is the Adkins Building, at the right is the Johnston House. This w... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Two men ride their bicycles past curious on-lookers. |
| Date: | 03 1881 |
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| Description: | Winter scene looking north along First Street to its intersection with Main Street, Whitewater, Wisconsin. Shows aftermath of a big snowstorm which occurre... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | A watercolor view of Madison. Prominent on the left side of King Street is the Madison Hotel. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A winter scene showing the courthouse, schoolhouse, and Congregational Church, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of the Chicago fire of October 8, 1871. The hand-colored lithograph was published by Currier and Ives. |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the west side of East Water Street. |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking west from the Knight Block. The Chequamegon Hotel and harbor are in the background. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | First electric street railway service in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 03 1892 |
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| Description: | Detail map including West Washington Avenue, West Main Street, West Wilson Street, and North and South Bedford Streets. Includes the Chicago, Milwaukee & S... |
| 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: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of West Water Street from Grand Avenue of horse-drawn vehicles, pedestrians, buildings, storefronts and power lines. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View looking east on Liberty Street from Shore Drive. In the foregound is the F. Bohri & Son Clothing store, and behind it is a store selling "Drugs, Medic... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View of businesses located on the south end of Main Street including The Hotel Erving, a shoe store, Utter Drug Company, a dentist, Graham Awning Co., and ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Corner of Main and First Street. The first two buildings on the southwest corner are Abraham Meinhold's dry goods and LeClair's hardware store. Next is A.F... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Ellsworth Block on North Pinckney Street between East Washington and East Mifflin Streets as seen from the Capitol Park. Storefronts include the Dry Goods ... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | The Main Street Building, which contained John Dudley's Dry Goods Store, a bank, and a drugstore. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of downtown businesses, on the courthouse square. On the right corner is a drugstore and shoe store. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The third Wisconsin State Capitol as it appeared during the early 1870s. Close scrutiny of the entrance (whether it is the north or south entrance cannot b... |
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