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| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view toward the horizon over a bridge on a river of the widespread destruction left in the wake of a tornado. Destroyed houses litter the scene an... |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over water, perhaps Hatfield Lake, of damage to houses and property caused by a tornado. Groups of people are scattered throughout the town. |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | View over water, perhaps Hatfield Lake, of houses damaged and demolished in a tornado. Floating at the edge of the lake near an eroded bank are numerous pi... |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over water of the damage created by a tornado. A river, with debris visibly floating in it, runs through the town. Groups of people are walki... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Oblique view from the Mississippi River. Two young women are in a rowboat near the shoreline, and two young men are fishing in the river. Alma at the foot ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View of Alma across river from sandbar. A rowboat is on the sandbar, and on the right a father and child are standing posed each with one foot on a log. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Christmas postcard of four men and one woman in a rowboat on the Mississippi River. In the background is the town of Alma at the foot of bluffs. The woman ... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | View of Alma from the Mississippi River, with wing dam on right. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A railroad section crew poses with a handcar on the trestle spanning the Buffalo River, north of Alma, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | A woman in a bathing suit stands on the beach and holds what appears to be a seashell. The ocean is in the background. This woman is contained within a she... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View from bridge towards a tall smokestack standing on the left side of the Yahara River where it is flowing out of Lake Mendota. Remnants of the foundatio... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Color illustration of the grounds and buildings of the 1893 World's Fair or Columbian Exposition. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View of the Sugar River below a dam. A man stands in the water fishing. Two others stand on the bank at left and one is seated on the dam. Three sticks are... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View down road lined with trees in Egypt. A group of Egyptians are standing and sitting between the trees and the river, and travelers on the road are walk... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of replicas of Columbus' ships the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria sailing into dock at Chicago's Jackson Park. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A promotional card displaying a populated village street near a lake in Northern Wisconsin. The caption bellow the photography reads: "RIB LAKE, TAYLOR C... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View over water of a three-decked sternwheeler loaded with passengers and flying two large flags. The one at the back is a United States flag. There is a s... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A map showing the shoreline of a portion of El Montecito, Santa Barbara County, California. The map shows properties along the Pacific Ocean, and may have ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View from the shore of Kenosha's North Pier and lighthouse. Waves are breaking on the shore of Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Young woman on a driftwood stump, standing at the shoreline with what is probably Lake Michigan behind her. She is wearing a long skirt and a blouse, with ... |
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