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| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A general view of the Lane residence, which is the birthplace of Carrie Lane, later Carrie Chapman Catt, noted woman suffrage leader. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View from a distance of a farm in a valley owned by Alex(ander?) Smith. There is a wooden fence in the foreground surrounding the farm. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Galena (lead sulfide) was melted at this open hearth furnace owned by Richard Straw and Company on the Roundtree Branch of the Little Platte River. The men... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks of two men posing near the right side of locomotive no. 539 on another set of railroad tracks. The locomotive was built by the ... |
| 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: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of multiple buildings in Cross Plains from Lutheran Church Hill. Many roads and fences cross the fields. Wooded hills are in the background. ... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | View of buildings in Delafield, with two men and a dog standing near a fence in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Sweep horsepower threshing. Men and products lined up near the machinery with a large haystack on the left. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | The home and fur-trading post of Col. Dominique DuCharme. The portion of the structure on the left was built by DuCharme in 1791. The right portion was add... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | The site of the encounter between Black Hawk and his followers and General Henry. |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a barn raising on the farm of Alva Paddock in the township of Salem on Geneva Road, Highway 50. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View from water tower, showing the grove where Black Hawk's pursuers were supposed to have camped in 1832. The group of men in the foreground are digging f... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | A view of the Milton College campus, showing three main buildings. Caption reads: "Milton College". |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of multiple structures on the R. Moseley Walker homestead. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | E.S. Minorhouse on the right, Weston-Babcock house on the left. A person is standing on the sidewalk on the left in front of the Weston-Babcock House. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Page showing the month of April from the Hillside Home School calendar. Included are two small cyanotype photographs, one of a house and the other of a fie... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Ruins of the commissary warehouse at Fort Winnebago, about 1898. Fort Winnebago was closed in 1845 and the land and buildings sold. Today, only the Surgeon... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill towards farm fields and houses. Tree-covered hills are in the distance. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of female students working in the fields with hoes. Behind them are college buildings. |
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