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| 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: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Six men of the fishing colony on the shorelines of the Mississippi River. Numerous boats, logs, and fishing nets are scattered across the beach. Caption on... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | A color-coded map of the Lake Superior region, including portions of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan. |
| Date: | 08 07 1885 |
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| Description: | House on rock outcropping. The house has two chimneys and is two stories high with porch at left, three windows on first story, one visible on second story... |
| Date: | 07 1876 |
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| Description: | A camping party rests at the top of a bluff at Devil's Lake State Park. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A man sporting a beard and wide-brimmed straw (?) hat is operating a mower pulled by two horses in a field. The field is on hilly terrain. A dirt road and ... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, which is located on a hill near Lake Mendota. A winding drive leads up to the hous... |
| Date: | 05 06 1894 |
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| Description: | Monongahela River view of a dam at Lock #2. |
| Date: | 05 08 1894 |
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| Description: | A deserted cabin at the mouth of a rocky ravine. |
| Date: | 05 08 1894 |
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| Description: | View from the Ohio River of cultivated hillsides and houses near the shoreline. |
| Date: | 05 08 1894 |
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| Description: | House in West Virginia on the edge of a steep hill with a Pennsylvania/West Virginia boundary line running through the garden on the left side of the house... |
| Date: | 05 10 1894 |
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| Description: | Two fishermen in a boat on the Ohio River. |
| Date: | 05 12 1894 |
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| Description: | Four boys stand on the shoreline of the Ohio River, seeing Reuben and Jessie Thwaites off. Buildings and a church steeple can be seen in the background. |
| Date: | 05 12 1894 |
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| Description: | A woman rowing in a boat on the Ohio River. There is another boat on the shoreline behind her. |
| Date: | 05 15 1894 |
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| Description: | Three little girls pose in front of a house built next to a cliff. |
| Date: | 06 06 1894 |
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| Description: | A large hill on the Indiana shore, with ripples from a boat visible in the foreground. |
| Date: | 06 06 1894 |
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| Description: | A view at the mouth of the Wabash River of a lone tree on what appears to be a peninsula. |
| Date: | 06 10 1894 |
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| Description: | View from the river out to the clay bank. There is an oar visible in the foreground. There is a building above the bank in the background. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A view from a hill overlooking the town of Alma, on the banks of the Mississippi River, which is frozen. Several churches and residential houses are visibl... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over trees towards the west of Upper Campus at the University of Wisconsin. Washburn Observatory, with windmills behind it, is on the right n... |
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