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| Date: | 11 25 1871 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders oval framed portrait of John Muir (1838-1914). |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Stereograph. This view from East Washington Avenue shows photographer Andrew Dahl on his horse "Curnel" in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Dahl had j... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a large logging crew posing outdoors in the snow at their camp in front of a log building. One of the men is playing a fiddle or a violin... |
| 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: | 07 09 1870 |
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| Description: | Irish people on the way to mass, including children surrounding the priest. |
| Date: | 03 1876 |
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| Description: | The first locomotive for the Pine River & Stevens Point ralroad, which was purchased in 1875, being hauled overland from Lone Rock to Richland Center while... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Two men in hats, one with a walking cane, are standing in front of a frame house that has a small porch with latticework in front and a Hekla Fire Insuranc... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental health Institute) is seen in the distance in this long view from across cornfields. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with men along railroad tracks in snow and a train engine behind the men. "The Grand and Majestic Snowbanks on the Madison and Portage Railroa... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with train crew shoveling snow off tracks of Madison-Portage Railroad. Stereo. "The Grand and Majestic Snowbanks on the Madison and Portage R... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with men standing on snow banks near a Madison-Portage Railroad locomotive. "The Grand and Majestic Snowbanks on the Madison and Portage Railr... |
| 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: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Three young men doing gymnastics in a field near a cow, with other people standing and posing behind them. Two people are in a wagon. In the background are... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | The first school house in DeForest is a frame, one-story building with shutters. The group posed in front consists of the woman teacher and her students. B... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Wind powered stone grist mill. Two men stand on a wood balcony near the open doorway of the windmill. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Robert M. Bashford house on Pinckney and Gilman Streets. A man wearing a hat stands in the landscaped yard near a small child wearing ... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Jefferson School, built on the site of the first cemetery in Janesville. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Advertising card produced by Warder, Mitchell and Company, manufacturers of the Champion line of agricultural machinery. Features a color illustration of a... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Young man and two women in a horse-drawn wagon in front of the fenced yard of the James Sanford home. There is a small patch of snow on the ground in front... |
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