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| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | View across water of a Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad locomotive (No #33) pulling a pay car across a trestle over the Fox River. Several large... |
| 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: | 1851 |
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| Description: | A rare photograph of U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Howard rowing a boat on the Fox River. Fort Howard, built in 1816, was the first in the chain of ... |
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| Description: | Schooners docked on river. The view is downriver from the Grand Avenue Bridge. |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from steep shoreline of a log jam of about 150 million feet of logs, stopped at the piers of Pound, Halbert, and Co., which stood in about 40... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Buildings and storefronts in town near bridge and river. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | The Yahara River from Williamson Street with Lake Monona in the background. House & Barn pictured is located at 601 Riverside Drive. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View down the canal, with buildings along the shoreline, and a boat coming down the canal. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Ruins of building showing smokestack still standing after the Peshtigo fire. A group of men are standing on the left. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Soldiers' Grove with a bridge in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A large building, possibly a mill, next to a river. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of City Stadium, former home of the Green Bay Packers from 1925 to 1956. Currently it is the home of the Green Bay East High School football te... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | A view of the Yahara River below Williamson Street. |
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| Description: | View down a metal bridge over the Kickapoo River showing a truck parked on the far side of the bridge. A man and a boy are standing at the rail of the brid... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Quarter plate daguerreotype of the Oshkosh harbor, showing the bridge over the Fox River and several moored sailing vessels. |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Half plate daguerreotype, with view across water of the Oshkosh, Wisconsin harbor showing the bridge over the Fox River. Moored on the opposite shore are t... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of wagons hauling coal from the Milwaukee Western Fuel Company holding up street car traffic on a busy Milwaukee street. |
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| Description: | Elevated view from south side of the Chippewa River, with a bridge crossing it and buildings on both sides of the river. A bluff rises on the far side of t... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Three barefoot boys stand on a pile of logs in the foreground looking across the river at a group of men working to free a log jam in the Big Eddy on the C... |
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