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| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Main Street, with its dirt, ruts, cows (and presumably manure), but wide enough for easy hitching of wagons and teams. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | View across water of a Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad locomotive (No #33) pulling a pay car across a trestle over the Fox River. Several large... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Aftermath of Peshtigo fire on October 8, 1871. Devastated landscape with deer carcass in foreground. The Peshtigo fire razed the small town of approximatel... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison campus showing the first three buildings on campus, South Hall (left), University Hall [Bascom Hall] (center), and North Ha... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of lumber raft and workers on the Chippewa River. In the background on the right are dwellings. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Albumen stereograph of the Union Army brass band posed and playing atop Lookout Point. The Tennessee River is in the background. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Bucolic scene in Wisconsin illustrates agricultural prosperity after the depression. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Ashley Bennett, son of photographer H.H. Bennett, is captured in mid-air as he jumps to Stand Rock. |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from steep shoreline of a log jam of about 150 million feet of logs, stopped at the piers of Pound, Halbert, and Co., which stood in about 40... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | University Heights from the Chemistry Building on University Avenue. View includes the University of Wisconsin-Madison football field, on the former site o... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | A fleet of rafts on the Wisconsin River below the Kilbourn dam. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Gettysburg battlefield showing trees and a stump. Handwritten on reverse, "On the right of our line." This is probably a reference to the te... |
| Date: | 09 26 1895 |
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| Description: | View of the A.G. Beebe farm in Bruce, Wis. with stump land in the foreground. In the background is Mr. Beebe's barn and house. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Three men sitting in front of log building at Big Bay Beach on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Dirt trail passing log shack that was probably the home of Michael and Madeline Cadotte. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | A view of Lone Rock from below, with a canoe on the left-hand side. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the "Dell Queen" entering the Narrows via Devil's Elbow as Hattie and Nellie Bennett look on from an overlook on the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| 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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