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| Date: | 08 24 1888 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the George A. Whiting Paper Mill after a fire on August 24, 1888. Sixteen men were killed by the explosion of a bleacher; the ble... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | The Stout Manual Training School, later a part of Stout State College. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | View towards Lake Monona (David Atwood House in foreground, Monona Avenue and Doty Street). |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | View from Capital Park towards the United States Court House. There is a stone gateway with iron statues and an iron fence along the sidewalk. The elaborat... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Monroe (Munroe?) House, with three people posing on the front porch. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | The Carnation Company condensery. Sign along front of building reads: "Carnation Milk Products Co." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a pumping station with a tall smokestack. Caption reads: "Pumping Station, Racine, Wis." |
| Date: | 07 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Tornado damage in Truax Field area. The Anderson house chimney was damaged, and the trees surrounding it were uprooted. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Weathered building, possibly at Walnut Grove, the family farm of Cyrus McCormick. Walnut Grove was near Steele's Tavern, Virginia. |
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| Description: | Shops under construction for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha railroad lines. Men are working with a horse-drawn wagon in the right foreground... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Cabin built by Jacob Rieder, an early Swiss settler of New Glarus. |
| Date: | 09 1962 |
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| Description: | View across yard of a house beside the Portage Canal. It was unoccupied at the time of this photograph. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The Portage canal looking east from the Canal Bridge. Boats are lines up along the shoreline on the left near a long building. |
| Date: | 02 05 1928 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the Portage Canal, looking east from the canal bridge. A man is standing on a large platform on the left side of the canal near a... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | A straw lead furnace, an open hearth furnace where lead sulphite (Galena) was roasted. Located on the Rountree branch of the Little Platte River, Richard S... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Cottage built by Marie Gatter beginning in the 1920s along the shore road in the park. It was razed in the winter of 1960-61. The chimney was originally pa... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View from Oshkosh Avenue across icy river towards the Pluswood factory in the distance. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of an elevated view of the ruins after the fire of April 28, 1875. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Illustration of an elevated view over rooftops looking towards Oshkosh. There are chimneys along the horizon with smoke rising into the sky. A river is alo... |
| Date: | 10 08 1945 |
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| Description: | A large barn and outbuilding on the Quaker Oats farm, 4202 Monona Drive. |
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