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| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | This hand-colored lithograph of the second Fort Howard, with Indians canoeing on the Fox River, shows the hospital built 1834-1835 outside the stockade on ... |
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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... |
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| Description: | View across water towards Laurie Peterson, son of the photographer, fishing from a rock on a misty morning near the family home. |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the photographer, Carl A. Peterson, taking a moment to light his pipe while fishing from a boat near the family home. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer in a field operating a hor... |
| Date: | 09 17 1930 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline towards a collapsed ice house. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Crescent Beach campsite with cabins and miniature golf course by Lake Michigan. |
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| Description: | View across field towards the railroad bridge, seen with the construction almost completed. A man is standing in the middle of the bridge, and two or three... |
| Date: | 1829 |
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| Description: | Drawing of Cassville depicting a horse cart on the river's edge, with men and boats. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Group of people sitting beside spring, perhaps at Winnequah or Picnic Point in Madison. All of them are either holding or are wearing hats. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill of the freight steamer "Cornucopia" loading hides at the Hammond Brothers warehouse, with Lawrence University buildings on the hill... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View from hill towards the river, paper mill, and houses on a hill in the distance. Caption reads: "View of Fox River from Riverview Golf Club, Appleton, W... |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Radisson cabin, the first house built by a white man in Wisconsin. It was built between 1650 and 1660 on Chequamegon Bay, in the vicinity... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of town. The Mississippi River and far shoreline is in the background. The Furnace Branch creek runs through the town in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view with buildings and a church in the foreground. Caption reads: "Looking East from Chetek, Wis., Southworth's and Flinn's Point in the Distance... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View from hill across Eagle Bay with buildings and trees in the foreground. Caption reads: "Across Eagle Bay, Ephraim, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View across field and fence downhill towards the town of Fish Creek and the bay. Caption reads: "Greetings from Fish Creek, Wis." |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the "Pottawatomie" lighthouse in snowy expanse of land, with the lake in the background. |
| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | View across the river towards several residences on the opposite shoreline. Caption reads: "Watertown in 1842." |
| Date: | 1841 |
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| Description: | View across the river towards several residences on the opposite shoreline. |
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