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| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | This is said to be the family of Hans Holtan (a.k.a. Austinson) posed in the yard before a frame house that has carpenter's lace on porch, two separate doo... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Council House of the first Wisconsin Territorial Legislature when it met at Belmont in 1836. A young boy or man wearing a hat stands in front near a fence. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of South Pinckney Street from the Wisconsin State Capitol, with East Washington Avenue to the left and Lake Monona on the distant right. The ... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Group portrait in front of the Immanuel Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church parsonage, and part of a series taken during the meeting of the Eastern Distr... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | A very formal family is seated around a table ornamented with glassware. Men strike poses in the yard. Behind them is a large wood frame Victorian house wi... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Two women and a child pose on the porch of a Greek revival frame house. The porch appears to have been added later in a Victorian style, including elaborat... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Men stand in the yard, and a woman stands on the porch of a frame house with double brackets, double front doors with screen doors and a double walkway lea... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View from road down wooden sidewalk which runs adjacent to an elaborate fence along a yard, behind which women stand near the front porch of a frame house ... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A family stands on the porch of small frame house with wing additions. A well is on the far left, and farm buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Victorian mansion at 123 S. Madison Street, built in 1870 and owned in 1875 by Samuel Chamberlain. It's mansard roof and iron trim help make the house an ... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Halle Steensland and his wife Sophia pose with their five children (left to right: Morten, Henry, Edward, Halbert and Helen) in front of their home in Mapl... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | John Theodore Parman and his wife Louise stand second and third from the left behind their home's fence. Their daughters can be seen in the windows and the... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Family seated around table in yard with baby on grass and brick house with porch trim and shutters in background. This house is said to resemble the J. Hil... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | The Sjur Starkson Reque home. From left to right, seated, are Martha Reque, Mari Reque Lee, Brita Reque Quale, Nels Lee and Ole Quale. Standing are Anna Ma... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View of the third Wisconsin State Capitol from one of the entrance walks. A small group of men stand in the background. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | "View of the Capitol, with all the Flags" one of four "Different Views of Parades in the Streets" identified in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic View... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Ole Bull Residence at 130 East Gilman Street. Family on lawn playing croquet with house in background. Later, the house was known as the Thorp House. It be... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute), a large stone building five stories high with a porthole windo... |
| Date: | 06 1875 |
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| Description: | The University of Wisconsin Class of 1876 on the lawn in front of Main Hall (later Bascom Hall). Prominent members of the class included Richard B. Dudgeon... |
| Date: | 06 1875 |
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| Description: | The University of Wisconsin Class of 1876 photographed on the lawn in front of Main Hall (later Bascom Hall). Prominent members of the class included Richa... |
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