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Middleton Railroad Crossing

Date: 1873
Description: Elevated view of several men, some of whom may be railroad workers, posing in front of a Minnesota and St. Paul wood-burning engine at a train crossing. Th...
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Men with Farm Tools

Date: 1879
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...
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Village Across Pond

Date: 1875
Description: A view of the village from a nearby bluff across a pond. Men, women and children, standing spaced apart, are posing in the field near the pond.
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View of Wisconsin State Capitol (Third)

Date: 1873
Description: View, ca. 1873-1879, of Madison looking down Wisconsin Avenue toward the third Wisconsin Capitol, a view that suggests something of the ongoing importance ...
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Moscow Library Association

Date: 1875
Description: Group portrait of the Moscow Laseselskab (the Moscow Library Association). Rasmus B. Anderson is probably in the group.
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Steamboat on Devil's Lake

Date: 1875
Description: Elevated view of people, elegantly dressed, posing on a pier, with a steamboat and rowboats docked on it on Devil's Lake. An American flag is on the steamb...
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Amund Rustebakke Farm

Date: 1873
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 ...
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Landscape View and Farm

Date: 1873
Description: View down a rocky hill towards a split-rail fence bordering a prosperous farm. The low building in the center is the kind of cattle shed settlers built as ...
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Man in front of Fence

Date: 1873
Description: A bearded man is standing in the foreground in front of a fence, and a person is sitting on the fence on the right. Two people are standing on the hill beh...
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Split-Rail Fences

Date: 1874
Description: View across field towards farm buildings, with split-rail and other types of fencing surrounding a farmhouse, a barn, a log structure and haystacks. A grou...
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Farms of Burton, Fitlen, and Rustebakke

Date: 1873
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...
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Blue Mounds Farm

Date: 1873
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...
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Tollef Gjermundsen Farmstead

Date: 1874
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...
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Onon Bjorn Dahle's House and Store

Date: 1873
Description: A man is standing in front of a fence along a road in the foreground. Two other men are in the road; one is standing and one is on horseback. Onon Bjorn Da...
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Farm and Rolling Hills

Date: 1873
Description: View of a prosperous farmstead from a neighboring hill. A man is standing near a woman in a horse-drawn vehicle in front of a board fence in the foreground...
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McCord Rock, Devil's Rock, Donald's Rock, Preacher's Cap

Date: 1876
Description: View of a farmstead with fences, haystacks and a wooden outbuilding. Two men are posing on top of McCord Rock, one of them saluting with his hat. Another ...
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Tollef Gjermundsen Farm

Date: 1874
Description: View uphill towards cattle, horses and people in the barnyard of the Tollef Gjermundsen farm. Behind them is a barn with a stone foundation with an arched ...
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Cattle, Haystacks, and a Mill

Date: 1876
Description: Sheep and cattle are within a split-rail fence. Two men are behind the fence standing on the roof of a shade shelter for the cattle. Haystacks and a windmi...
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Norwegian-style Barn with Cupola

Date: 1876
Description: Distant view from hill of a barnyard with people, split-rail fencing, cattle, a Norwegian-style barn with cupola and rooster weather vane and an animal bui...
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Men with Horses and Wagons near Barn

Date: 1870
Description: Men, horses and wagons on a hillside. A barn and another building are in the background.

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