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| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Back cover illustration of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows children and adults, some of them circus performers, inside a large tent... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A family campsite with a woman and three boys standing next to a canvass wall tent. In front of the tent is a campfire with pots, and a log with a hatchet ... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | A large group of circus performers and personnel, including a clown and band members, pose in front of a tent. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of the Merrimac and Monitor Naval Battle cyclorama, painted by Théophile Poilpot. Men are standing on a riverbank in the foreground, and a... |
| Date: | 05 06 1894 |
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| Description: | Setting up camp on a bank of the Youghiogheny River. William Turville holds a canvas bag of bedding, while Jessie hands her son Fredrik a satchel from the ... |
| Date: | 05 13 1894 |
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| Description: | Jessie Thwaites seated outdoors near a tent wiping dishes. |
| Date: | 06 03 1894 |
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| Description: | Ten-year-old Fredrik, Jessie's brother William Daniel Turvill,and Reuben Gold Thwaites, have a meal at a campsite at Crooked Creek. |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a town with a railroad bridge crossing over a river. Several individuals are visible crossing the bridge. Sign near bridge says: "Willow R... |
| 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: | 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: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A depiction of Jerusalem on the day of Jesus' crucifixion. A busy landscape of people, animals, and shelters. Mount Scopus is in the distance. Text at righ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A depiction of Jerusalem on the day of Jesus' crucifixion. In the foreground is a crowd of people, animals, and tents. There is also a group of solders wi... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A depiction of the Tower of Phasealis on the day of Jesus' crucifixion. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A depiction of Jerusalem on the day of Jesus' crucifixion. This is the road to Joppa and a camp of Bedouin Arabs. Text at right: "Wanderings Among the Wond... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Colored postcard view of "Buffalo Bill" Cody center right in white coat and hat surrounded by Native Americans in traditional garb, military personnel and ... |
| Date: | 08 06 1893 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of Company M, 3rd Wisconsin National Guard posed in front of tents at Camp Douglas. |
| Date: | 05 28 1898 |
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| Description: | Seated, posed group portrait at the annual meeting, outdoors at the semi-centennial celebration in Sherman's Grove. Identified from left: John Eckles, Ed.... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view from footbridge with rustic railings of a small boy wearing a large hat standing at the end of the footbridge. A group of adults and anoth... |
| Date: | 07 08 1896 |
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| Description: | An informal group is seated under an awning in the garden of the Fairchild house at 302 Monona Avenue (later renamed Martin Luther King Boulevard). Picture... |
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