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| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Two women and three men are posing in a yard. One man is holding a shotgun, another a carpenter's saw. The frame house behind them has a small front porch ... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Four men in front of tent in the woods. There is a man with a hatchet next to a clothesline between two trees. This is a Centennial encampment on the shore... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Quite possibly this is the "View of Capt. L.M. Lange's Company" listed in the "Centennial Views of the City of Madison, July 4th, 1876. Views of Chicago Li... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Members of the Chicago Traveling Club are encamped on the shores of Lake Mendota and are posed with their tents, guns, cooking equipment, boat, paddles, sh... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Quite possibly this is the "View of Guard Tent and Guard" listed in the "Centennial Views of the City of Madison, July 4th, 1876. Views of Chicago Light Gu... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | A group of campers at McBride's Point at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison, Wisconsin. They are equipped with German exercise equipment (exercise pi... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Men in wagons posed in front of a rural post office. They brandish guns, whiskey bottles and possibly a harmonica with humorous intent. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Men with guns and dogs and wagons in front of a rural post office. Some men have assumed exaggerated poses, probably for humorous effect. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A family is seated on the wrap-around porch, with two men posed holding shotguns standing below them at foundation level. There are two windows in the ston... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A family of sixteen in yard around table set for coffee. Three men are in the background, one holding a shotgun. There is a frame house with shutters and s... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of family in yard. Two women are posing on horses, one man has a rifle, and another man has a hoe. A woman is sitting in front of the porch ... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | A group of soldiers stand at attention in formation as a part of the 1876 Centennial Celebrations. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Stereograph. Looking northwest. Designed by Edward Townsend Mix, the building is said to be Wisconsin's premier example of the Victorian Gothic style of ar... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Magazine illustration of the home, titled: "Soldiers' National Asylum at Milwaukee, Wisconsin". The building is in the background, and in the foreground ar... |
| Date: | 02 08 1879 |
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| Description: | A cartoon entitled: "The Latest Illustration of Our Humane Indian Policy" depicting an imprisoned, injured Native American man who has been served "boiled ... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card with a woman sitting in a meadow reading a book. She is wearing a yellow dress and a red hat with a feather. To the right in the backg... |
| Date: | 06 1879 |
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| Description: | Tracing of a petroglyph depicting an animal figure pursued by a human figure with a bow and arrow followed by a child. |
| Date: | 06 1879 |
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| Description: | Tracing of a petroglyph depicting an animal that has been shot with an arrow. |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Alice Tobey, in costume as Joan of Arc from Friedrich Schiller's The Maid of Orleans (Die Jungfrau von Orleans). |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Jim [James] Whaling, in costume as Mephistopheles from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play Faust. |
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