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| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Main Street, with its dirt, ruts, cows (and presumably manure), but wide enough for easy hitching of wagons and teams. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Camp Randall looking southwest. In April 1861, Governor Alexander Randall asked that the State Agricultural Society fairgrounds be converted into a militar... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Three men taking a break during harvesting. Their horse-drawn reaper raked the grain into rows as it cut. In the background are various farmstead buildings... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Five men, facing away from the camera, are standing in a field. Some of them are holding a rakes and a scythe. A boy is in the foreground facing the camera... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View across field towards the Amund Rustebakke farm. Twelve haystacks dominate the left and center of the image, and two people are standing on top of the ... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View of several farms, including Burton's, Fitlen's and Rustebakke's. Field arrangements and fencing patterns are evident. A man is walking along the bott... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View down a rocky rural lane near West Blue Mounds. Zigzag stake and rider split-rail fencing enclose a farmstead, which includes a barn, a frame house, ha... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | View down hill towards two men in the foreground standing on top of a stone fence looking out onto fields where two or three men are working with two wagon... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man driving a horse-drawn wagon along a rural lane with a man walking in front on the left. In the background is a field, fences, farmho... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | View of a farmstead with fences, haystacks and a wooden building. A man is in the background on top of McCord Rock, also called Devil's Chimney, Preacher'... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | People in a field standing around a mower, with a farmstead and windmill in background, looking west. Halvor Nerison Hauge (1830-1906) purchased the farm i... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Tollef Gjermundsen farm. Men on horseback stand in a row in the foreground, and a stone house, windmill and barn are in the background. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A pasture is in the foreground with a brick house, barn and connected outbuildings behind it. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Kingsley house with family in front. It has tall and narrow double-hung windows that are grouped in twos and etched. Carpenter's lace ... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Allen E. Adsit is standing on a grassy hillside in the foreground. In the distance is the Allen E. Adsit farm, which includes a three-story frame house wi... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Washburn Observatory. Hill, trees and fields are in the background. A man is standing near a small obs... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | View of the superintendent's residence at the Wisconsin State Fish Hatchery (aka Nevin Fish Hatchery, 3911 Fish Hatchery Rd.), a frame house on a stone fou... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a family standing near a small and neat rural frame house. The women are wearing hats. One man is leaning against the house with ... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The Michael Johnson Engesether family is seen from across a field standing at the side of a stone house with a frame addition. The house has a small front ... |
| Date: | 09 10 1875 |
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| Description: | View looking west across the area once occupied by Camp Randall during the Civil War and towards the Breese Stevens farm property. The Madison Centennial ... |
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