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Mrs. Charles Van Schaick on Horseback

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Description: Mrs. Charles Van Schaick, posing on horseback, is riding past the livery stable. It was unusual for women at this time to ride horseback.
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Ho-Chunk Women and Children Outside Livery

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Description: Ho-Chunk women and children wrapped in shawls and sitting on the ground outside the livery.
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Exterior View of Unidentified Residence

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Description: Exterior view from street of a two-story wooden house with a surrounding picket fence. There are farm buildings in the background.
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Residence of William Peterson and Mose Pauquette

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Description: View from across street of two wooden houses. The house on the left is identified as the residence of Commodore Mason, William Peterson, and Mose Pauquette...
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Unidentified House and Stable

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Description: Exterior portrait of a two-story wooden house in the distance surrounded by a large yard encompassed by a wood and chicken wire fence. A stable on the righ...
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Building on the Corner of First and Fillmore

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Description: View across unpaved street towards a group of men and women, probably Native Americans, posing sitting and standing in front of Building #88 on the northea...
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Sawyer Livery

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Description: Outdoor view across road towards a man posing sitting in a wagon pulled by a pair of horses in front. In the background a woman is posing standing in the d...
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Barn for the Freeman Hotel

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Description: Elevated view of a two-story wooden barn, with trees and a school building in the background. The barn is identified as the barn for the Freeman Hotel, beh...
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Draft Horses at the Freeman Hotel Barn

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a two European American men, both displaying single draft horses, with the horse on the right hitched to a wagon. They are posing in fr...
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Street Scene

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Description: View across road towards a group of men standing on a sidewalk watching a man riding a horse in front of Building No. 88 on the northeast corner of South F...
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Group of People on a Stagecoach

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Description: View across unpaved street towards a group of people posing sitting on a stagecoach pulled by a team of four horses wearing flynets. The stagecoach is in f...
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Man Displaying Two Horses

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Description: View across yard towards a man posing standing in the center displaying two horses. On the right is a large horse hitched to a buggy, and on the left is a ...
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Horse at First and Main

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Description: Outdoor view of a team of two horses pulling a wagon on a town street. Location identified as the intersection of Main and First Street looking south.
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Residence of H.A. Bright; Formerly the United States Hotel

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Description: View along fence and driveway towards a large white two-story wooden building with a porch and balcony. Several individuals are standing at different point...
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View of Unidentified Residence and Unidentified People

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Description: View towards a two-story wooden house. Three women and a boy are standing at the fence in front. A wooden structure is on the left.
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Outdoor Group Portrait of People in front of Unidentified Residence and Stable

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Description: View across unpaved road and fence towards a group of people posing in front of a two-story wooden dwelling on the left, and a stable. on the right. A man ...
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Man Displaying a Horse

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Description: View towards a man displaying a horse wearing a harness and blinders in front of a wooden building with a large, closed barn door.
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Man Displaying Horse

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Description: Man in a fur coat displaying a horse on a road covered in snow. There is a barn on the far right, and a house in the background.
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Farm Scene

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Description: View of a farm, with a man posing with a horse on the left in front of a fence. A woman is sitting on the porch of the farmhouse. Two horses with a buggy a...
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Man Displaying a Horse

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Description: Outdoor view of a man displaying a horse in front of stable doors.

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