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| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Eau Claire. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Cover of a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company fair circular (catalog). The cover is illustrated with a lake and mountain scene and includes the text "Man... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | The schooner "S.M. Stephenson" was built in Manitowoc in 1880, weighing 511 gross tons. Its owner was A. Bigelow. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a sawmill area and Lake Winnebago in the foreground. The square building with the "cupola" was the Revere House. A manuscript notation, very... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of an elevated view of the lumbering industry on the Fox River. Lake Winnebago is in the background. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee works. Long steel mill located on the bank of either a lake or a river. Multitudes of smokestacks, tracks, and small buildings. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Fishermen fishing off of a long pier. Industrial buildings are across the water in the background. |
| Date: | 07 07 1898 |
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| Description: | View across water of Sturgeon Bay. In the far distance are lighthouses, buildings, and barges along the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Rice Lake Lumber Company Mill, taken from a high vantage point. A formation of logs is in the river, and piles of finished boards are ... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Montello, county seat of Marquette County. The granite quarry, woolen mill, and planing mill are clearly identified. A steamboat on Buf... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | A detail of a Sanborn map showing the lake Mendota shore area, including Madison Manufacturing Company. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Front and back cover of catalog for harvesting machines. Front contains illustration of a torn hole with the eye of a buck looking through the hole. Superi... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | A view of Madison from a lake shoreline. Unknown location. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | This map shows lot and block numbers and dimensions, landownership, city wards, buildings, streets, railroads, parks, cemeteries, churches, schools, and in... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View across water towards where brothers John and August Lindstrom had a pop factory at 409 N. Blair Street during the 1870s and 1880s. They lived above th... |
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