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| Date: | 08 1898 |
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| Description: | Summer kitchen at the Turville family farmhouse. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A family is gathered around table for coffee with a frame house behind that has a sewing machine on its porch, and a lightning rod on the roof. A framed pi... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Martin H. Meyer's birthplace. Reproduced from a lead pencil sketch made in 1870. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Alice and Eleanor Brown with their nurse in front of 121 East Gilman Street. The three houses in the photo are 125 East Gilman, 133 East Gilman and 139 Ea... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Houses by a stream in Zermatt, Switzerland. A woman is doing laundry (?) in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Elderly woman sitting in a rocking chair knitting in front of a window. |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Watercolor painting of farm and farmhouse, residence of Mr. Daniel Lewis. |
| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | Two-story home with sloping roof. One man is whipping a team of eight cattle while another man drives the plow behind them. To the left stands a man near a... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Henry Schildhauer home, located on West Washington Avenue. A table is set for a poultry dinner. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Interior view through tasseled doorway of a room in the James Nevin home. Nevin was the supervisor of the State Fish Hatchery. The room is decorated with m... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | An interior view of the Wisconsin State Treasurer, Sewell A. Peterson, home on South Fairchild Street. The photograph is taken looking through the parlor a... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Miss Graumann, far left, poses with four dressmakers in front of her shop. A sign on the right side of the door states "Dressmaking, Miss Annie Graumann".... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Political cartoon comparing the Democratic Platform with the Republican Platform. The cartoon (Democratic) on the left depicts a poor family wearing rags i... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Martin K. Dahl, far left, sits with three women around a table which has been set in front of an iron fence which encloses a manicured yard. Two of the wom... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Dousman family entertaining house guests on the lawn at Villa Louis. A table and chairs are set up on the grass and several of the group are holding baseba... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the store with a false front. A sign along the porch on the left reads: "Millinery" and a sign in the center reads: "Wm. Dittberner, Merch... |
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