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| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Family in front of picket fence and wood walkway, which encloses an upright and wing frame house with elaborate carpenter's lace and latticework on the por... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Man lying on the grass along a tree-lined drive that leads to a frame house in background. Rural house, country estate. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Issued as a stereograph on green mount entitled "The Artist." Two men stand by a wagon on which is written "A.L. Dahl Landscape Photographer." The flag on... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Men in wagons posed in front of a rural post office. They brandish guns, whiskey bottles and possibly a harmonica with humorous intent. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View, from a distance, of Middleton. The view includes A.L. Dahl's horse-drawn wagon. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | A view from the roof across an unpaved road towards a building across the street from A.L. Dahl's photography studio. The two-story storefront is a general... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Men with guns and dogs and wagons in front of a rural post office. Some men have assumed exaggerated poses, probably for humorous effect. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View across wooden platform of a brick high school on a hill surrounded by a fence. The school has a mansard roof and what appears to be a bell tower above... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Well-dressed young couples sit in the foreground. In the background is a picket fence running along a busy road with horse and buggy traffic. Further on is... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | View across road of the Eastern District Norwegian Synod, May 31-June 6, 1877, at the Immanuel Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church (2 1/2 miles west of L... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | View down road towards the exterior of a large brick church with a stone foundation, belfry and steeple. A group of people stand in front of the white boar... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | View from cornfield towards the Orfordville Lutheran Church, built in 1871-1872, surrounded by a white picket fence. The pastor at the time of the photogra... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | "One view of the village of Mount Vernon, Wis." a stereograph listed in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views." |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | On June 20, 1856 Hölzlhuber took a two-wheeled horse cart from the Lake Shore Railroad depot in Milwaukee to East Water Street and the home of his hosts, t... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | View from the second story of the Salesianum, the residence of Dr. Salzmann. The view includes Lake Michigan, the Milwaukee shoreline, and some of the nume... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Hölzlhuber received a request from the German theater director Henry Börnstein in St. Louis, Missouri, to purchase his theater sets and music. Accordingly,... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "5th Ave Antigo Wis Looking West Photo taken in 1882". View down road with felled trees lining both sides. Two men are posing further down t... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | The first electric street railway in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Elevated illustration of the Lawrence College Campus with snow on the ground. |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Woman in a tilted hat posing in the foreground. Across the street are stores: J.J. McGillivray Sash and Door Company and Squire's Oyster House. Probably on... |
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