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Filter: Year of 1800-1899
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | View of a two-story brick house set close to the street, possibly located in Decorah, Iowa. People stand in front of the house and behind a picket fence. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Family in front of large brick rural house that has shutters, elongated basement windows and large bay window. A man sits with a hand scythe at the right. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Family in front of large brick rural house that has shutters, elongated basement windows and large bay window. A man sits with a hand scythe at the right. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Family in yard with carriage with large stone house behind that has shutters closed. The house was built in 1845. Harmon J. Hill was the first supervisor o... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | The William Bullock family is posed before a stone upright and wing house with carpenter's lace brackets and trim on its porch. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | One of the eight female figures purchased from the Chicago firm Gould Brothers and Dribblee to be used on the gate posts of the Wisconsin State Capitol fen... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Ole Bull Residence, 130 East Gilman Street. The family is playing croquet on the lawn. Later, the house was known as the Thorp House. It became the state's... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Partial view of billiard hall and Lake Mendota from the Ole Bull Residence, 130 East Gilman Street. Two people on shore are pointing to a sailboat. Later, ... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Ole Bull Residence Billiard Hall behind his house, 130 E. Gilman Street. Frame building with railing on side and latticework on bottom, with shutters and c... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View, through a cornfield, of people, a store, a sawmill and wagons. Moscow was platted in 1850 by an Englishman, Chauncy Smith, who dammed the Bluemound ... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View, from a distance, of Middleton. The view includes A.L. Dahl's horse-drawn wagon. |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | View of the McFarland Lutheran church and cemetery. The church was started in 1869 and in use in 1873. It was dedicated on January 23, 1876. The church w... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | View, from a distance, of New Glarus. A hill, trees and fences are in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | A Catholic seminary since 1854, the Salesianum was built by Dr. Salzmann, a Catholic missionary from Munzbach in upper Austria. A two-hour walk from the ci... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a Native American man and woman, both Ute Indians, on horseback. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Alma along Mississippi River, with bluffs along the horizon. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Lithograph of a map drawn to indicate a mine on land owned by Mineral Point Mining Co. in the lead region of southwestern Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | At the Aztalan Indian Mounds a group of people are standing on a hillside in the background. In the foreground are corn shocks. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A man and two women standing on a stile of broad wood in the middle of a field. The man standing on the second step, wearing a coat, bow tie, and fedora. T... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of multiple buildings in Cross Plains from Lutheran Church Hill. Many roads and fences cross the fields. Wooded hills are in the background. ... |
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