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| Description: | Rocks placed to control the flow of Dale Creek. A house is visible in the background. This picture was likely taken as a study of the water drainage in ear... |
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| Description: | A man stands on rocks that will dam Dale Creek. This picture was likely taken for a study of the water drainage system in early Greendale. |
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| Description: | Small wooden building with water wheel, presumably a mill. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | An original colored lithograph advertising the Chemins de fer électriques de la Gruyèr railway in Switzerland. The poster features the artist Anton Reckzi... |
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| Description: | View looking north from a covered bridge, including a rocky stream-bed and a tree-lined dirt road with houses and other wooden buildings. Caption reads, "V... |
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| Description: | Exterior photograph of the first water works in America, consisting of a stone cottage next to a stream. |
| Date: | 10 1884 |
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| Description: | Sanborn insurance map of Black River Falls covering the area bordered by the Black River on the East, 3rd Street on the West, Johnson Street on the North, ... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of two men standing on a newly constructed railroad bridge over a stream. |
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| Description: | The Richardson Farm stands at the far edge of a farm field with a creek running through it and animals grazing. The farmhouse is white and surrounded by tr... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The mill race as it flows from Lake Mendota into Tenney Park. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Map of Wisconsin along with the western portion of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, showing county lines, cities and villages, lakes, streams, and railroads. Po... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Madison Mobile Homes, with a three-quarter view of a mobile home parked in a clearing near a wooded area on a shoreline, with the slogan "Liv... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A geological survey map of southeastern Wisconsin that shows the configuration of the bedrock beneath the glacial drift and other deposits in southeastern ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A geological survey map that map of southeastern Wisconsin shows the surface deposits east of the Wisconsin River, from the Illinois state line north to Ne... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | This map shows the area around Fort McCoy, labeled "U.S. Military Reservation," and Camp Douglas in the Sparta-Tomah region. Road, railroads, towns, cities... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View from low hill of a stream flowing through fields. There are cows in the pasture on the right. In the distance is a bridge, road, and buildings. |
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| Description: | A map of Grant County, Wisconsin that shows the townships, cities, villages, rivers and streams, roads and railroads, landownership, post offices. The map... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A topographic map of Green County, showing by contours and spot heights the topographic and natural features of the county. The contour intervals are 20 fe... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | A map of Green Lake County, Wisconsin, shows township divisions, villages and post offices, railroads, roads, lakes and streams, schools, and churches. |
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