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| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | Watercolor of the Reid House, residence of William Reid at the head of Big Foot Lake (Lake Geneva). Two children and a woman are in the foreground. |
| Date: | 03 09 1878 |
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| Description: | Illustration by N.A. Greenback of ice-skaters and iceboats featuring the new Poughkeepsie design of pivoting runners. A key at the bottom of the image iden... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Janesville from the High School building. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | "Mineral spring pavilion with visitors taking the waters." Seven adults, including a man in a top hat, five children and a woman are posing in a gazebo bui... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | "Mineral spring pavilion with visitors taking the waters." Well-dressed men, women and children are posed in a gazebo built over the Iodo-Magnesian Springs... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Identified as " Lover's Retreat, Spring View." Group in field with stream on a picnic. Children are stepping on stones in foreground with U.S. flag, people... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | A large well-dressed group of men and women, with a scattering of children, posed outdoors near a lake. This group portrait may be at Maple Bluff on Lake M... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a large group of men, women and children, at a lake shore, possibly Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison. The Norwegian flag suggests... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Looking down street toward Lake Michigan, which is visible at the end of the road. The dirt street is lined with trees and houses. On the right stands a... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | A summer resort, situated on the banks of Fowler and La Belle Lakes, in the village of Oconomowoc, thirty miles from Milwaukee on the St. Paul R.R. Men sta... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Two men are in the foreground on a shoreline, one standing in a boat. In the background on the other shoreline are adults and children sitting in the gras... |
| Date: | 05 06 1894 |
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| Description: | View on the Monongahela River of a ferry with passengers and horse-drawn carriages. There is a bridge in the background. |
| Date: | 05 26 1894 |
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| Description: | William and Fred pose at the edge of a pond or creek. |
| Date: | 05 27 1894 |
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| Description: | A small crowd of men and boys in hats on the shoreline seeing the Thwaites family off at the Indian Kentucky River. |
| Date: | 05 29 1894 |
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| Description: | A crowd of people gathered on a wharf with boats in the foreground. |
| Date: | 06 07 1894 |
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| Description: | A man poses with his four children, who are lined up next to him from the tallest to the smallest, in front of a log shanty. The building is near the mouth... |
| Date: | 06 07 1894 |
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| Description: | Jessie Thwaites poses next to two huge logs, upon which Fredrik stands. Behind them is the Saline River. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a winter scene with a large group of people skating on the frozen Manitowoc River between the 8th and 10th Street bridges. A dog trots acr... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Everetta Bass, holding a basket of flowers, and her mother Ada on a hill by the mill pond (Montello Lake). The far shoreline of the lake can be seen in the... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Prairie du Chien (vicinity) about 1895-1900. Shell buyers with their launches and barges docked at shoreline. Freshwater clam shells were used in the pearl... |
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