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| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Stereograph. This building, which was destroyed by fire in 1866, was located in the commercial district known as Market Square. The Square was actually a t... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | E.T. Mix designed the original building of the National Soldiers Home in 1867. At the time the structure was dedicated on 28 September 1867, the wings had ... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Emil Wallber house with four people standing near the entrance. Wallber was the mayor of Milwaukee from 1884-1888. The location of the... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway locomotive no. 40, called the L.B. Rock, at the Chestnut Street yards. The mast of a ship is visible in the background, and ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | The state seal of Wisconsin appears in the upper left corner. To the right reads: "Head Quarters 18th Reg. Wis. Vol, Camp Trowbridge, Milwaukee" On t... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of woman, man and child outdoors on a farm with snow on the ground. The woman is wearing bloomers and is holding a bucket in the process of doi... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Stereograph. This building, which was destroyed by fire in 1866, was located in the commercial district known as Market Square. The Square was actually a t... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Acrobatic Gymnastics Club of the Milwaukee Turners, posing in a studio wearing their gymnastic clothing. |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Increase Lapham examining a fragment of a meteorite. |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Indoor portrait of Jonathan E. Arnold, pioneer lawyer of Wisconsin. Born February 16, 1814. Settled in Milwaukee, 1836. Died there June 2, 1869. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite quarter-length vignetted portrait of Katherine Schloesser (later Estabrook), dated via caption to "about Civil War time." Schloesser was a ... |
| Date: | 07 18 1861 |
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| Description: | Letterhead with a rifle, sword, horn, and Revolutionary War-era hat surrounding a scroll reading: "1776." Text below the illustration reads: "The Old Conti... |
| Date: | 10 16 1865 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the members of Milwaukee Hook and Ladder Company No. 1. Two men are posing behind the group on a platform bearing several U.S. fl... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A seated, three-quarter ambrotype portrait of George Brumder (1839-1910) wearing a suit, vest and necktie. He has a beard but no mustache. His shirt studs... |
| Date: | 07 1864 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of George Brumder and his wife, Henriette Brandhorst Brumder, taken around the time of their wedding, July 16, 1864. She is wea... |
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