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| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Home of Governor Cadwallader C. Washburn on Monroe Street at the east end of what is now the Edgewood College campus. Washburn is probably the man at left. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | The facade of the McCormick family residence at 675 Rush Street, which takes up an entire block between Erie and Huron Streets. Cyrus Hall McCormick, Sr. h... |
| Date: | 01 1895 |
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| Description: | View from street of the residence at 424 North Pinckney Street. |
| 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: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Ingram residence in winter, home of the wealthy lumberman O.H. Ingram. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the Purdy house. Angled view from street towards the right side of the house, with a horse-drawn buggy. |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | The Philteus Sawyer residence located on the northwest corner of Algoma and West Algoma Streets. Sawyer was mayor of Oshkosh from 1863-1864, and became a U... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | This building, on an entire block of Spaight and Brearly Streets with Lake Monona, was originally the governor's mansion for Leonard J. Farwell. The Farwel... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of exterior of a building used as the Confederate government's Executive Mansion. This was where Jefferson Davis and his family stayed during t... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Babcock home, a Queen Ann style structure at 537 E. Wisconsin Avenue. People, presumably the Babcock family, are standing in front of ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Wheatland estate, the 22-acre residence of James Buchanan, was built in 1828 by William Jenkins. Caption reads: "'Wheatland' Home of President Buchanan." |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Ruins of the Pinckney Mansion with rubble in the street after General Sherman's men burned the town near the end of the Civil War. Plate 59 |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Veew toward the facade and right side of the Morris Pratt Institute on a street corner. The roof line has an ornate iron railing running around its perimet... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Lakeside entrance exterior stairway of an elaborate residence at Lake Geneva. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | View across lawn, covered partially with snow, towards the Grand Avenue (later Wisconsin Avenue) facade of the George Brumder home at the corner of 18th St... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | View across lawn, covered partially with snow, towards the 18th Street side of the George Brumder mansion on Grand (later Wisconsin) Avenue. The three-stor... |
| Date: | 07 25 1896 |
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| Description: | Minnie May Rumsey is smiling and holding her niece Jeannette Holt. The baby is looking at the camera. An architectural column and foliage are in the backgr... |
| Date: | 07 25 1896 |
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| Description: | Three of Lucy Rumsey Holt bridesmaids and her mother Mary Mathilda Axtell Rumsey are adoring baby Jeannette Holt. This picture was taken on Lucy and W.A. H... |
| Date: | 07 1899 |
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| Description: | Alfred Holt is leaning on a toy wagon with wooden wheels at grandmother Holt's home, which was known as "The Homestead." The address of the Devillo and Ell... |
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