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| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Color chromolithograph illustration advertising poster for the Marsh Harvester, produced by Gammon and Deering Company. Printed by Charles Shober & Co., Ch... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Waukesha with two women wearing dresses with a boy in long pants and tam o'shanter hat in foreground against a split-rail fence. Beyond th... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Janesville from the High School building. |
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| Description: | View across field towards the railroad bridge, seen with the construction almost completed. A man is standing in the middle of the bridge, and two or three... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Group of people sitting beside spring, perhaps at Winnequah or Picnic Point in Madison. All of them are either holding or are wearing hats. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the Randall Harrow, manufactured by the Warrior Mower Company. Features a color illustration of a farmer using the harrow in a field. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Logs floating down the river beneath the bridge on the Chippewa River. On the far shoreline are billboards. One advertises for "J.R. Sharp Hardware." Men a... |
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| Description: | Ice chunks floating on the water near houses. People are standing watching nearby. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Two women sitting on a bench in Riverside Park having a conversation. The picture is taken from behind with the shoreline far below the women in the backg... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | A fisherman baits his hook at a park bench missing its seat. A metal fence divides the paved shore from the west channel of the East River in the backgrou... |
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| Description: | View of Going-to-the-Sun Chalets at Glacier National Park. View features rustic chalets overlooking the river and hills. Several people stand by the river ... |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view of the Cow Bridge. A farm is on the shoreline on the right. A man is standing on the bridge. Text in the lower right corner reads: ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A bridge with both a wooden walkway for pedestrians and a dirt road for automobiles. Two men and a horse are standing on the other side of the bridge. |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of railroad bridge across a river. Two girls and a boy are standing on the opposite side of the river near the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | " . . . The first in their series was not an 'improvement' but a view of the Green Bay settlement, looking downstream. From a simulated rustic fence corner... |
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| Description: | Three men posed standing on the porch of a small brick building with a tall smokestack, probably the City Water Pumping Station at Town Creek, surrounded b... |
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| Description: | Three men posed standing against a fence holding pipes in a yard. In the background is a river clogged with floating logs floating. Several wooden building... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a log jam under a railroad bridge about half a mile from the Black River Falls Dam. On the opposite shoreline, men sit atop a fence.... |
| Date: | 05 1900 |
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| Description: | View of the Herman Backhaus farm buildings from across the Rock River. Four people are sitting in a rowboat. Other people are standing along the shoreline ... |
| Date: | 04 1900 |
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| Description: | Men standing on either side of the river, fishing near the rough and ready dam. In the background is the Octagon House, built in 1854. |
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