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Governor Washburn's House

Date: 1876
Description: Home of Governor Cadwallader C. Washburn on Monroe Street at the east end of what is now the Edgewood College campus. Washburn is probably the man at left.
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Wisconsin State Capitol (Third) Maintenance

Date: 1878
Description: Painters working on the cornice of one of the four octagonal towers of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Also visible is the Italianate ornamentation of the iro...
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Wisconsin Farm

Date: 1873
Description: Three people are posing in the foreground, with a man with a long beard standing in front of two women sitting in a horse-drawn carriage. There is a barn a...
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Farm and Rolling Hills

Date: 1873
Description: View of a prosperous farmstead from a neighboring hill. A man is standing near a woman in a horse-drawn vehicle in front of a board fence in the foreground...
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Family outside for Coffee

Date: 1876
Description: A family is grouped around a table set for coffee in a yard and on the porch of a house in a grove. House has "rounded rock" foundation and brackets.
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Niagara Falls from Canada Side

Date: 1877
Description: An A.L. Dahl photograph, one of "Two different views of the Falls from Canada side," from the series "Niagara Falls and Suspension Bridge" as mentioned in ...
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John Joseph Olver (Oliver) Family

Date: 1898
Description: Group portrait of the Olver (Oliver) family. In chairs: Alice Melissa and John Joseph; sons, from left to right standing: Louis Franklin (Frank), Willard S...
Drawing

Milwaukee Harbor

Date: 08 1852
Description: Pencil drawing of Milwaukee Harbor with large sailboats on the water. In the minimalist depiction the sandy shoreline with short plant growth sweeps aroun...
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The Robert Bashford House

Date: 1870
Description: Elevated view of the Robert M. Bashford house on Pinckney and Gilman Streets. A man wearing a hat stands in the landscaped yard near a small child wearing ...
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Long Tail Point Lighthouse

Date: 1890
Description: Second Long Tail Point lighthouse, built in 1859.
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Fairchild at Gettysburg Monument

Date: 1869
Description: Governor Lucius Fairchild of Wisconsin and an unidentified group visiting the still uncompleted national monument at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 1869. Fair...
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Norwegian Octagon Church

Date: 1885
Description: Norwegian Octagon church, built in 1852 and torn down about 1891 or 1892.
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Waumandee Mill

Date: 1895
Description: View of a mill, sluice and dam on Waumandee Creek. The mill was built by John Oschner in 1863. Two products produced by the mill were White Rose Flour and ...
Print

Walworth County Courthouse

Date: 1873
Description: Slightly elevated engraved view of the Walworth County Courthouse. In the foreground a man is riding a horse along the street. Pedestrians are on the groun...
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Stout Manual Training School

Date: 1890
Description: The Stout Manual Training School, later a part of Stout State College.
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Polk County Press Office

Date: 1890
Description: Exterior stereograph of the Polk County Press Office, with three men standing near the entrance, and three children sitting on the left on the board sidewa...
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Everetta Bass and Llora

Date: 1895
Description: Everetta Bass standing next to a woman identified as Llora. They are standing in front of a house at 131 East Montello Street, with the Methodist Church, l...
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A Young Girl Playing Outside

Date: 1898
Description: A young girl, Helen Phillips, stands in a yard near a fence behind a wooden chair. She reaches though the decorative panels on the back of the chair and gr...
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The Eyerley Family

Date: 1897
Description: F.D. Eyerley sits with his wife and his daughter on the front stoop of their home on West Johnson Street. They are reading from a book. A small, wicker roc...
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Grandall's House

Date: 1899
Description: A path made of wooden planks leads through a tangle of shrubs and other small plants leading to Grandall's house, a two-story brick structure. A man stands...

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