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| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Chromolithograph card of an American woman, posing near a Singer sewing machine. Her daughter stands on a pillow, watching as her mother sews. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | View across Park Street of Science Hall building after the fire of December 1, 1884, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The building's exterior... |
| Date: | 06 25 1899 |
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| Description: | A group of children and adults excavating an oval mound in the Teller Group. |
| 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 15 1894 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a log house at the base of a cliff. A man and a boy pose in front of the house. |
| 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 03 1894 |
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| Description: | Ten-year-old Fredrik, Jessie's brother William Daniel Turvill,and Reuben Gold Thwaites, have a meal at a campsite at Crooked Creek. |
| 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: | 1850 |
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| Description: | An engraving depicting a formally dressed family gathered around a Christmas tree, which is lit with candles. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | An elderly man stands in a room holding a small girl. Caption on negative reads, "Mary C. and Grandpa." |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Caption reads, "Sam D. Conant at cottage." A woman sits on the boardwalk and looks at the child. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A group of farmers are using a McCormick wire grain binder, built in 1876. A horse-drawn carriage is in the background. The original caption reads: "The im... |
| 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: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Husband and wife with their six children and two dogs posed in front of their log cabin home. There is a framed addition on one side of the structure and a... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railroad locomotive no. 1, the Menomonee at a station with four people standing nearby. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Ada Bass with her daughter Everetta on a chair in front of a curtain. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Railroad advertising card showing a mail carrier on horseback on a plank road in 1776, and mail being delivered by train in 1876. A woman with two children... |
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