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| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | The Opera House at the corner of Washington (now Main) and North Mill Streets. A sign at the back of the building reads: "Printing." A barber pole is in fr... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | A man posing in the open doorway of Julius Schadauer's tobacco shop at 101 State Street. The sign above the doorway reads: "Schadauer of Cigars Fact. No 62... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Schlitz Brewing Company with two men and a boy in suits and hats in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Front view of C.F. Rau's furniture store, with the owners and employees sitting in front of the store. Apparently, the store also performs undertaking. The... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the exterior of the Park Hotel at Carroll and Main Streets. There is a church building in the background on the left. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of downtown businesses, on the courthouse square. On the right corner is a drugstore and shoe store. |
| Date: | 08 02 1889 |
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| Description: | View looking east down 100 block of East Gilman Street, from the intersection of East Gilman and North Pinckney Streets. The Mears House, 116 East Gilman, ... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the exterior of the Fuller Opera House, which is a detail from a bird's-eye view map of Madison. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | View from the Wisconsin Avenue entrance of the Capitol Park to Madison City Hall. The City Hall building has a clock tower on the roof. The stone gateways ... |
| Date: | 10 07 1887 |
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| Description: | Military parade on Main Street honoring President Grover Cleveland's visit to Madison. Soldiers of the University Battalion are marching on West Main Stree... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | This is the H.W. Tenney house built by Charles Patten in the late 1870's, bought by Mr. Tenney in the spring of 1881. The people are, (left to right): Eva ... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View of the original Hotel Chequamegon, built by the Wisconsin Central Railroad interests and opened in 1877. It was built of wood with a wrap around porch... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking west from the Jackson County Courthouse. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of street corner, with two buildings that have been destroyed by a fire, a brick fence, and some trees. There is a wooden cart in th... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | The Eau Claire Lumber Company, later the Cutter shoe factory. It was still standing in 1931. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | View of Tenement Block and Megget Home (built before 1870), River Street. The buildings where the A&P Market stands. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View across unpaved Main Street, with storefronts on the right, including a restaurant and meat market. Caption reads: "Main Street". |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of South Jefferson and Doty Streets, showing the Albert Weiss and Platt Greene residences and the present location of the Columbus Club, Kell... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | View of Green Bay from the top of St. Willibrord's Church. A river can be seen in the background. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | View across intersection towards the Sawyer County Bank, with a group of people posed near its corner doorway. The Sawyer County Bank was organized on Marc... |
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