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| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A cyanotype view of the Horticulture Building at the World's Columbian Exposition with the dome of the Illinois Building in the background. There is a mot... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A cyanotype view of the central basin, Peristyle and Statue of the Republic. There are several boats on the basin. On the right is a large statue of a bu... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A cyanotype view across lagoon from shoreline of the U.S. Government Building (right), and the Fisheries building (left). There is a bridge over the lagoon... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A cyanotype view of the World's Columbian Exposition grounds from near the North Loop elevated railway station, showing the glass dome of the Horticulture ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A cyanotype view of Cairo Street on the midway of the World's Columbian Exposition. An Egyptian with a large drum rides a camel as men and boys watch. The ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Three men in Arab dress pose in front of the base of an obelisk on the Midway at the World's Columbian Exposition. A gentleman in western dress also poses ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A cyanotype photograph of a man in oriental dress on the Midway of the World's Columbian Exposition. He stands behind a gate; a sign warns, "No Admittance ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A cyanotype view of the Agriculture Building (right) and Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building (left) from the bank of the South Canal at the World's Colu... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Stereograph from Spaight Street neighborhood looking toward Capitol and Bascom Hall. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Letterhead for Moulton, Moran & Co. The logo shows North America and depicts Superior as the center of a hub with spokes going to Russia, to China and Japa... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View overlooking Pinckney Street on the Square with the American Hotel in the background. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of elevated view of the midway of the Chicago World's Fair from the Ferris wheel. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Stereograph through a Ferris wheel at the Chicago World's Fair. The sensation of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago was the Ferris wheel, the... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Stereograph over rooftops of the Ferris wheel at the Chicago World's Fair. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Soldiers from the second Wisconsin regiment line a city street upon returning from Puerto Rico. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Soldiers from the second Wisconsin regiment line a city street upon returning from Puerto Rico. There is a horse-drawn cart and an electric street car on t... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the top of the Pabst Building down East Wisconsin Avenue all the way to Milwaukee Bay and out to the horizon of Lake Michigan. One of th... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | A stereograph of exterior of General Lee's residence. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of exterior of a building used as the Confederate government's Executive Mansion. This was where Jefferson Davis and his family stayed during t... |
| Date: | 04 20 1861 |
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| Description: | Elevated stereograph view of the Great Union Meeting at the New York City Union Square. |
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