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| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | View looking west from Lake Michigan with several steam ships and sailing vessels in harbor. There is a lighthouse to left of center, along shoreline. |
| Date: | 08 1894 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of two people standing on Schuetzan Park pier. A sailboat is docked at the end of the pier and there is a steamboat on the water. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Sheboygan, with inset of J.J. Volrath Manufacturing Company. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Lake Geneva with the Lake Geneva steamboat. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a large crowd on a pier waiting for a crowded steam excursion boat. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | View west from the Cliff House at Devil's Lake. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a lake scene in Madison, probably looking south on Lake Monona at a boat race in progress. From the series "The Beauties of the City of Madi... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | In April of 1860 Hölzlhuber took the railway from Milwaukee to Lake Horicon to visit the small town that was developing on its shore. Since the settlers we... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | The rear view of the Ceylon Building, which was from the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The building was later purchased by J.J. Mitchell, moved ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | The Ceylon Building and its pier as seen from Lake Geneva. Originally built for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the building was later purchas... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph elevated view of a steamboat landing in front of the Whiting House. Groups of people are standing on the pier, and more are on the steamboat. S... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of the Whiting House with its large harbor and boats. Whiting House is a four-story wood frame Second Empire style hotel standing on the l... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the Townsend House boathouse across a lake. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Townsend House. Image includes people sitting on porch, grounds, boat dock. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | view from the hotel of the expansive grounds of the Tonyawatha Spring Hotel on Lake Monona. Located in Blooming Grove Township, the hotel was opened in 187... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | From a map published by Angell and Hastreither, the drawing depicts the Tonyawatha Spring Hotel grounds on Lake Monona. The hotel, located in Blooming Grov... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | View over water of Science Hall and the Chemical Laboratory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, as seen from a boat in Lake Mendota. Part of a b... |
| 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 1899 |
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| Description: | Syl with two women and a man, all wearing hats, fishing off of a dock in Sturgeon Bay. Behind them is a small wooden structure. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View of two lakeside cottage, which have docks and porches that overlook the lake. Caption reads: "Birch Walk, Kelly Lake, Wis." |
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