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| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Main Street, with its dirt, ruts, cows (and presumably manure), but wide enough for easy hitching of wagons and teams. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Aftermath of Peshtigo fire on October 8, 1871. Devastated landscape with deer carcass in foreground. The Peshtigo fire razed the small town of approximatel... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of lumber raft and workers on the Chippewa River. In the background on the right are dwellings. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Fire destruction near railroad tracks after Peshtigo fire. There are wheel carriages from destroyed boxcars on and near the tracks. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | A view of the village from a nearby bluff across a pond. Men, women and children, standing spaced apart, are posing in the field near the pond. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Battery C, 1st Regiment, Wisconsin Heavy Artillery at Fort Sherman, shown here after the battles of Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain.... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | People in a cemetery. Includes a view of the Scofield family monument. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of the city of Manitowoc with a population of 5,168 inhabitants as it appears in 1870, the year the village was granted a city charter by t... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Wiscsonsin Central's bridge over the White River, about six miles south of Ashland. The bridge was 1600 ft. long and 110 ft. above the... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View across field towards the Amund Rustebakke farm. Twelve haystacks dominate the left and center of the image, and two people are standing on top of the ... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View down a rocky hill towards a split-rail fence bordering a prosperous farm. The low building in the center is the kind of cattle shed settlers built as ... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Three people are posing in the foreground, with a man with a long beard standing in front of two women sitting in a horse-drawn carriage. There is a barn a... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A bearded man is standing in the foreground in front of a fence, and a person is sitting on the fence on the right. Two people are standing on the hill beh... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | View across field towards farm buildings, with split-rail and other types of fencing surrounding a farmhouse, a barn, a log structure and haystacks. A grou... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View of several farms, including Burton's, Fitlen's and Rustebakke's. Field arrangements and fencing patterns are evident. A man is walking along the bott... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View down a rocky rural lane near West Blue Mounds. Zigzag stake and rider split-rail fencing enclose a farmstead, which includes a barn, a frame house, ha... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | View down hill towards two men in the foreground standing on top of a stone fence looking out onto fields where two or three men are working with two wagon... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Clover fields on a slope in the foreground, with a frame house and barn below. In the far distance is a field with harvested hay stacks, and two other farm... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Two men wearing hats are standing in tall grass in the foreground. One man has his arm raised while pointing across a harvested field to a farmstead among ... |
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