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Main Street

Date: 1873
Description: Main Street, with its dirt, ruts, cows (and presumably manure), but wide enough for easy hitching of wagons and teams.
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Middleton Railroad Crossing

Date: 1873
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...
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Men with Farm Tools

Date: 1879
Description: Five men, facing away from the camera, are standing in a field. Some of them are holding a rakes and a scythe. A boy is in the foreground facing the camera...
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View of Wisconsin State Capitol (Third)

Date: 1873
Description: View, ca. 1873-1879, of Madison looking down Wisconsin Avenue toward the third Wisconsin Capitol, a view that suggests something of the ongoing importance ...
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Quammen Family Farm

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Description: View of the Quammen family farm with a man in the foreground standing in a field. Behind him and across the field is an upright and wing frame house with w...
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Amund Rustebakke Farm

Date: 1873
Description: View across field towards the Amund Rustebakke farm. Twelve haystacks dominate the left and center of the image, and two people are standing on top of the ...
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Primrose Landscape

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Description: View over trees towards a farm and fields, possibly those of G. Tollefson.
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Farms of Burton, Fitlen, and Rustebakke

Date: 1873
Description: View of several farms, including Burton's, Fitlen's and Rustebakke's. Field arrangements and fencing patterns are evident. A man is walking along the bott...
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Blue Mounds Farm

Date: 1873
Description: View down a rocky rural lane near West Blue Mounds. Zigzag stake and rider split-rail fencing enclose a farmstead, which includes a barn, a frame house, ha...
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Tollef Gjermundsen Farmstead

Date: 1874
Description: View down hill towards two men in the foreground standing on top of a stone fence looking out onto fields where two or three men are working with two wagon...
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Onon Bjorn Dahle's House and Store

Date: 1873
Description: A man is standing in front of a fence along a road in the foreground. Two other men are in the road; one is standing and one is on horseback. Onon Bjorn Da...
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Andrew Thompson's House

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Description: View, looking south of a man wearing a hat in a horse-drawn buggy on a rural lane in Mount Horeb. On the right a man and three children are standing near t...
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Coolidge Family

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Description: View down a poplar-lined lane with fields and fences on the right. A man and child are sitting in the lane in a horse-drawn wagon with a team of two horses...
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Carriage and Buggy on Rural Road

Date: 1875
Description: Elevated view of a man driving a horse-drawn wagon along a rural lane with a man walking in front on the left. In the background is a field, fences, farmho...
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I.G. Brader's Farmstead

Date: 1876
Description: View of a farmstead with fences, haystacks and a wooden building. A man is in the background on top of McCord Rock, also called Devil's Chimney, Preacher'...
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McCord Rock, Devil's Rock, Donald's Rock, Preacher's Cap

Date: 1876
Description: View of a farmstead with fences, haystacks and a wooden outbuilding. Two men are posing on top of McCord Rock, one of them saluting with his hat. Another ...
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Tollef Gjermundsen Farm

Date: 1874
Description: View uphill towards cattle, horses and people in the barnyard of the Tollef Gjermundsen farm. Behind them is a barn with a stone foundation with an arched ...
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Men in Field Pointing at Livestock

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Description: Two men are in a field in the foreground, one sitting in a carriage, one standing next to it, and both men pointing to the background. There we see cows, h...
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Lars Davidson Reque's Farm with Men and Boys

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Description: In this tableau, men and boys stand at the edge of the field in elaborate and fanciful poses. The man on the left holds a hoe and cake while the one on the...
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Kingsley House

Date: 1872
Description: Exterior view of the Kingsley house with family in front. It has tall and narrow double-hung windows that are grouped in twos and etched. Carpenter's lace ...

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