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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking up the Wisconsin River, with Wausau in the background. There are railroad cars on a bridge on the right. |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | View of the first bridge to span the Wisconsin River, built by Schuyler Gates. It was washed away in 1866. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Wisconsin River shoreline, showing lumber rafts "tied up over Sunday." |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Elevated view. Caption on negative sleeve reads: "Black Hawk Battlefield. Wis. Heights. 'Looking it of west across river' [sic] c. 1896. Mrs. Charle... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View of the Sauk City bridge as seen from the Roxbury side. Two men are standing on the bridge on the far right, and buildings are behind the bridge on the... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Munger's Mill and dam, with men standing on and around the dam. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of five men standing on a log and a plank of wood while another man is chopping at the log with an axe. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a man on the end of the raft as he prepares to pass through the water's rough rapids. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a man as he rigs a rope around a log on a lumber raft. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | View from riverbank of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad locomotive no. 142 on the Kilbourn bridge. |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view from shoreline of the Wisconsin River in the Wisconsin Dells as seen from the "Old Dell House." A canoe is visible on the shore on the far r... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view from shoreline of the Wisconsin River in the Wisconsin Dells. A sandy beach area is on the right, and rock formations are on both sides of t... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Elevated panoramic view of a section of the Wisconsin Dells and the Wisconsin River visible from the "Sliding Rock." In the lower left hand corner the word... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men working on lumber rafts on the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Crew of river drivers moving logs off of rocks below a dam probably on the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Log driving crew maneuvering logs through rapids below a dam, probably on the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of several groups of men on rafts loaded with felled trees. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a man on a lumber raft steering the raft through the rapids in the Wisconsin Dells. |
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