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| 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: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View from a distance of a farm in a valley owned by Alex(ander?) Smith. There is a wooden fence in the foreground surrounding the farm. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | People attending a wedding reception, posing outdoors. They are standing in front of a modern house that has a log cabin attached to the back. In the backg... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Four unidentified individuals on Stand Rock. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Observatory Hill, Observatory Hall, the Agriculture Campus and Lake Mendota on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | View of home atop of Observatory Hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 05 05 1897 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Wisconsin Central freight cars in a rural storage yard near Manitowoc. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Buildings and grounds of the Leinenkugel Brewery. There are beer wagons in the yard, chickens along a wooden walkway, and men on a horse-drawn wagon near a... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Two men on a rock formation in the Baraboo Bluffs. One man is holding out a hat. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the river and town. Probably prior to 1885 because the Van Schaick building/photograph gallery is not constructed on Second Street. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View of a mill, sluice and dam on Waumandee Creek. The mill was built by John Oschner in 1863. Two products produced by the mill were White Rose Flour and ... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of Menomonie. A group of people are sitting on a hill in the foreground overlooking the town. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Fort Crawford was decommissioned in 1856, having outlived its usefulness as a frontier post. During the Civil War, however, it functioned as a military ho... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Elevated view up Wisconsin Avenue showing City Hall on the corner at Mifflin Street on the left, with the Post Office to the right. Further down is the Pre... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Munger's Mill and dam, with men standing on and around the dam. |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Increase A. Lapham in the foreground of a rock formation in Taylor's Glen, with A. Holly sitting on a rock in the background. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Three men and a dog are standing on thick chunks of ice looking over logs on an icy river. |
| Date: | 05 19 1895 |
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| Description: | A view from the bluff of group of men on the dredge bank of Buffalo Lake. |
| Date: | 05 19 1895 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the dam on the Fox River at Buffalo Lake. Houses and other buildings are visible in the background. |
| Date: | 07 1876 |
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| Description: | A camping party rests at the top of a bluff at Devil's Lake State Park. |
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