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| 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: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the exterior of the Second Ward School House, copied from the 1868 Madison City Directory. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Janesville from the High School building. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | A farm family posing in front of farm buildings and farmhouse. The young daughters are wearing matching dresses. Men in the background are standing with a ... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Woman sitting in a chair reading, with one child on a rocking horse and another child in a high chair. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Male and female students read and practice math at the State School for the Deaf as a teacher looks on from the head of the class. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Several people posed among farm implements in front of the machinery and insurance business of Gustav Reinhardt and Charles Pelunek (a.k.a. "Bohemian Charl... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Woman standing on second story porch and boy standing in vineyard behind small residence. A bluff is in the background. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Small town business district with a group of men and women posed on the board sidewalk on the right. Another group of men and boys are on and around a trac... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A pasture is in the foreground with a brick house, barn and connected outbuildings behind it. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Family and frame house of Lars David Reque. The family is posing in the yard which is surrounded by a picket fence, with a large frame house behind with ca... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A family poses in front of the picket fence before their frame house. Two little girls hold dolls in their laps. A dog sits on the grass nearby. Behind the... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Family posing in a wooded yard. One man holds a wooden flute. Behind them is a Greek Revival house with a Madison Mutual insurance sign over the door. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Fifteen adults are seated around table being served coffee in the yard. One woman sits at the spinning wheel and another at a sewing machine. The Greek Rev... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Women standing throughout the yard, with a man standing on the far left on the porch of the house holding a shovel. The frame house has a porch on two side... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Two women and three children standing in the yard of cube-shaped house with porch and hipped roof with strangely placed windows. The woman on the right en... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Woodpile in right foreground, with family near board fence. There is a man holding an accordion, and a frame house in background. Two children are standing... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Family in front of a wood fence with one man sitting on top of it. A woman holds a baby and child on small front porch of frame house behind. There is an a... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Seated family group with two children, in front of wing of frame house, with curtains in upstairs windows. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Family in front of picket fence, with L-shaped frame house with porch and high stone foundation. |
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