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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Man driving a horse-drawn trolley of the Milwaukee City Railroad Company on the Greenfield Avenue & Third Street line. The corner of a building advertising... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Elevated wintertime view of the intersection of South Carroll and West Main Streets, showing the First Baptist Church constructed in 1854, the wooden fence... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View of the Park House Hotel (called the Commercial House before 1888), which burned down in 1892. Two people are sitting in a horse-drawn vehicle on the l... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View down road with the Bay State House on the left. Three houses and a barbershop also line the street. A lamppost is in the left foreground. The Mississ... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | The Eau Claire Lumber Company, later the Cutter shoe factory. It was still standing in 1931. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | The home of I.G. Merrill, located on the corner of Ann Street (now called Sheridan Road) and Prairie Avenue, in the winter. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the Lindon House. Two women are standing on the second floor front balcony. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | A view looking southeast of the Newell H. and Helen Dodge residence at 1121 West Johnson Street, on the corner of North Charter Street. The house may have ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | View across intersection towards the Alba House, with individuals standing outside its entrance and on the balcony. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | View from intersection towards the Oshkosh Grand Opera House on a street corner. The building was started in 1882 and finished in the following year at a c... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Northwest corner of Grand Avenue and 4th Street. Built in 1854 at a cost of $18,000. The storefronts were added in 1868; the building razed in 1886. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | View of the gymnasium at Northwestern College. A staircase leads up the terraced hill to the brick building. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A man steers a horse and carriage down a winding country road near Clarendon Pond. Village dwellings are visible across the pond. |
| Date: | 09 21 1886 |
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| Description: | Twenty-seven young men and George Brosius posing outdoors with sporting equipment. The young men are dressed in short sleeved shirts and pants (possibly an... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | An exterior view of the Park Hotel, at the corner of Main and Carroll Streets. Children and adults are standing on the street corner on the left. A large g... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | View across lawn of the residence of Lucius Fairchild, in Madison. A woman is standing outdoors near the entrance. A fence surrounds the yard of the house,... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Five teenagers ride "High Wheeler or Penny-Farthing" bicycles down the street. Grand Avenue Congregational Church is in the background. Mature trees are on... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | View from the street of a man holding the reins for a team of two horses and sitting in the driver's seat of the Omnibus Line in front of the Park Hotel on... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of several buildings, with bridge and railroad tracks, and the Fox River. In the foreground on the right is the Commercial House, with three ... |
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