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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: | 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: | 1876 |
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| 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'... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a Native American man and woman, both Ute Indians, on horseback. |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 1864 |
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| Description: | View across the Tennessee River toward the city and Cameron Hill, showing the military bridge and some Union Army installations put up following the occupa... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from bluffs, looking north-east toward Lake City, Minnesota and Lake Pepin of the Mississippi River. |
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