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| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | This house, built on a hill close to the Milwaukee River, was the only one in the city as late as 1840. The owner of the house, Martin [Matthias] Stein, a ... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Ranzer's prosperous farm was hewn out of the forest rather than the prairie. This was "of course more difficult" and needed hired help to fell and burn the... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | The fertillity of the soil in America and Canada, especially in Wisconsin, was the attraction for most European immigrants. The vast amount of land and the... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View of buildings in an industrial area with a forest in the background. |
| Date: | 03 15 1896 |
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| Description: | Winter view down Capitol Avenue, possibly in Maple Bluff. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of houses and buildings in Wonewoc. |
| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | Rural landscape with farm buildings seen from across a field and framed by trees. |
| Date: | 08 02 1895 |
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| Description: | Two men stand waist-high in the cabbage, pea, and oat fields of the C.C. Washburn homestead, twelve miles southwest of Florence. Wooden houses or outbuildi... |
| Date: | 07 30 1895 |
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| Description: | Two men stand in the five-foot tall pea field of Joseph Seipold three miles northeast of Antigo. Another man stands atop a horse-drawn wagon loaded with ha... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Two women, a man and a child posing on a road adjoining their homestead, with stumpland and a forest behind them. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of loggers with their tools near their lodge. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Elevated group portrait of loggers at a logging camp posing in the snow. Some of the men are posing on the roof of the log building in the center. Men are ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A group of men sharing a meal at a fishing camp near Thunder Lake. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View down platform of Lakewood train station, with two men standing near a doorway on the left near two sacks. Another man is further down the platform ben... |
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