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Field with Wagon Tracks and Fence

Date: 09 10 1961
Description: Several fields containing wagon tracks along the side of a fence, in the vicinity of Highway P.
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Stock Day at Blue River

Date: 12 06 1910
Description: Elevated view of stock day at the railroad yards, showing pens of sheep and other livestock ready for loading into railroad cars. All of the cars are deco...
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D.F. Brown House in Bloomington

Date: 1890
Description: D.F. Brown house during the spring or summer, with two elm trees, three children and a woman. A picket fence runs along the sidewalk in the front of the ho...
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Cornish Miner's Homes in British Hollow

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Description: Cornish miner's homes on a hill, with surrounding landscape.
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Ivey and Webb General Store in British Hollow

Date: 1930
Description: Ivey and Webb general store, with trees and a hill behind, and in front a man standing under the store's awning.
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John Geiger House

Date: 1895
Description: Geiger house, residence of John Geiger. His son, Ferdinand A. Geiger, was a Federal District Judge in Milwaukee from 1912 through the 1930s.
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Habermann Hotel and Buffet

Date: 1900
Description: View across dirt road of two businesses. On the left is a two-story brick building with large windows which are painted with signs that say: "Habermann Buf...
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Aerial View of Town and Mississippi River

Date: 1900
Description: Aerial view of town. The Mississippi River and far shoreline is in the background. The Furnace Branch creek runs through the town in the foreground.
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Empire House Hotel

Date: 08 1925
Description: A view of the front of the Empire House Hotel, showing the porch and balcony. There are many wicker chairs on the porch, and there is an automobile parked ...
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Jenckes House

Date: 1890
Description: View of the Jenckes house, home of Dr. J.L. Jenckes, physician and surgeon.
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A Lancaster Home

Date: 1865
Description: Stereograph elevated view of a home in Lancaster.
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Lancaster behind Fencing

Date: 1865
Description: Stereograph of Lancaster from behind a wooden fence.
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Farwell Hotel

Date: 1865
Description: Stereograph view looking downhill towards the three-story Farwell Hotel in Lancaster.
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McNamee House

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Description: McNamee house on Irish Ridge, an Irish settlement near the St. Lawrence O'Toole Catholic Church. The house was built around 1860 and was owned by Michael M...
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Trinity Episcopal Church

Date: 1864
Description: Slightly elevated view across grounds towards the Trinity Episcopal Church, built in 1864.
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Nelson Dewey Farm

Date: 1900
Description: Nelson Dewey farm, showing the house built on the site after Dewey's death. The original house built by Dewey burned in 1873.
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Gray's Mill School, Disrtict 17

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Description: Small white clapboard schoolhouse in South Lancaster Township, with class standing outside in front. There is a barn on a hill in the background.
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Platteville School District #10 Rural School

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Description: Small rural clapboard schoolhouse with class posing at entrance. There is a dog sitting on the right side of the building, and cows are in a field in the b...
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Beetown School District #6

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Description: View from road of Budworth one-room white clapboard schoolhouse, built in 1888. The building sits between a wood shed and an outhouse, with open fields bey...
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Beetown School District #7

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Description: A man stands behind a fence and in front of a clapboard schoolhouse and outhouse on a hill. There is a bell tower on the school building.

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