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| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Norwegian Sunday School Picnic at Mendota steamboat landing. Small lake steamer "Mendota" could reach speeds of up to 18 mph. The barge "Uncle Sam" was 75f... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Old Mission Residence at La Pointe, Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 07 09 1870 |
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| Description: | Irish people on the way to mass, including children surrounding the priest. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Milwaukee with prominent streets and buildings identified. Taken from City Hall Tower. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Elevated wintertime view of the intersection of South Carroll and West Main Streets, showing the First Baptist Church constructed in 1854, the wooden fence... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | The wooden fence surrounding the Capitol Park. On the right is the railing at which horses were hitched, and some newly-planted trees. This view looks nor... |
| Date: | 10 07 1887 |
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| Description: | Military parade on Main Street honoring President Grover Cleveland's visit to Madison. Soldiers of the University Battalion are marching on West Main Stree... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Andrew Proudfit house at the corner of Fairchild Street and West Washington Avenue. The steeple and neighboring triangular window belong to the First Bapti... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of First Norwegian Lutheran Church, with Luther College in the distance. Part of a set of stereographs entitled "The Synod at Decorah, 1876" ... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | First Norwegian Lutheran Church with congregation posed outside the front entrance, part of a set of stereographs entitled "The Synod at Decorah, 1876" fro... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | In the foreground stands the Monona Academy and in the background the Norwegian Lutheran Seminary, housed in the octagonal former Soldiers' and Orphans' ho... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | The Grignon block house, "where the first Mass was said." |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Text reads: "Masonic Hall at the corner of College Avenue and Oneida Street; built in 1855 by Theodore Conkey, it burned in 1874. The Zuehlke Building was ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a Methodist Church with a lawn, trees and a fence. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View of Methodist Episcopal Church or Emma Suxton Memorial Church. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View of a Baptist church, two small trees, and a man standing in front of the church, wearing a top hat. Baptist Church, 4th Avenue and Niagara Street, bui... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Presbyterian Church, built in 1857, the first church building in Eau Claire. From a lithograph in the margin of an early map. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Front entry to the Wesleyan Seminary. It was built in the early 1860's on the site of the present High School building. |
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