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| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Stereograph. Elevated view of rooftops on the west side, with St. Mary's Convent in the background. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the home in which Robert M. La Follette, Josephine La Follette, and their mother lived when they first came to Madison. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, which is located on a hill near Lake Mendota. A winding drive leads up to the hous... |
| Date: | 05 08 1894 |
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| Description: | House in West Virginia on the edge of a steep hill with a Pennsylvania/West Virginia boundary line running through the garden on the left side of the house... |
| Date: | 05 12 1894 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a rundown oil worker's shanty, with a chair near the doorway. |
| Date: | 05 15 1894 |
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| Description: | Three little girls pose in front of a house built next to a cliff. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Mosher family standing in front of the J.F. Mosher residence. From the left are J.F. Mosher, daughters Celia Belle, Rhoda Adelaide, and Bertha May, son Her... |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of rescuers and onlookers standing among the wreckage in the wake of a cyclone. Bare trees, horses, houses, and a church steeple are in the bac... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A Ho-Chunk couple and their dog outside of their winter home (ciiporoke). A Hudson Bay blanket is hanging over the door opening. The long tree branches lea... |
| Date: | 08 28 1898 |
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| Description: | Exterior shot of Dankoler's house near Humbolt Park. A house and a barn-like structure are in the background. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View from water of boats docked near houses on Jones Island. To the right two flags are strung up flagpoles near a building with a covered porch, perhaps a... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a statue of Captain Myles Standish, a military leader of the Plymouth Colony. Begun in 1892, the statue depicts Standish grasping his sword in... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View of a statue and fountain in a grassy park depicting a boy selling a newspaper. Installed in 1895 and funded by Colonel William L. Brown, the statue c... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Marshall House, in which Col. E.E. Ellsworth was shot on May 24, 1861. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Main Street and shops. Business signs read: "D.C. Hay & Co.," "M. Tiffany," "Boot & Shoe Shop," "Bakery" and "West & Son." A residential a... |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | View over water, perhaps Hatfield Lake, of houses damaged and demolished in a tornado. Floating at the edge of the lake near an eroded bank are numerous pi... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | View of heavily damaged house and felled trees after General Sherman's army passed through. Plate 38 |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Photographic reproduction of a lithograph showing carpenters erecting houses. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of men unloading lumber off a raft. A man at the left loads lumber onto a horse-drawn wagon while a man in an apron holds the horses. There is ... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a view over rooftops of a neighborhood near Lake Michigan. Shoreline can be seen in the background. |
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