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Men with Plow

Date: 1873
Description: Group portrait of men gathered in a farmyard, posed behind two plows. The plow in front has Argyle, Wisc. from Michalson Implement Company inscribed on the...
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Diagram of McCormick's Reaper

Date: 1867
Description: A diagram of McCormick's cultivator-reaper, which was patented in 1845. The illustration, titled "The Cultivator" depicts a man using a rake to remove the ...
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Alexander Lake's Nursery

Date: 1896
Description: A boy and a man are holding up small white pine trees, while workers are planting them at Alexander Lake's nursery. In the background are horses and wagons...
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Raftsman's Series No. 1406 : Trip Finished. Pulling Out The Lumber

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of men unloading lumber off a raft. A man at the left is loading lumber onto a horse-drawn wagon, while a man in an apron is holding the horses...
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The "Gracie May" Locomotive

Date: 1884
Description: The Fairchild and Northwestern locomotive the "Gracie May," named for Gracie May Foster. Several people pose near the locomotive, including Robert Holmes a...
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Family Posed in Street near House

Date: 1872
Description: A family is seated in chairs in the middle of a street in front of a frame house with shuttered windows. Adjoining this house is what may be a commercial s...
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Boys Doing Gymnastics in Field

Date: 1874
Description: Three young men doing gymnastics in a field near a cow, with other people standing and posing behind them. Two people are in a wagon. In the background are...
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H.W. Tenney House

Date: 1885
Description: This is the H.W. Tenney house built by Charles Patten in the late 1870's, bought by Mr. Tenney in the spring of 1881. The people are, (left to right): Eva ...
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Men Using Tractor and Threshing Machine

Date: 1897
Description: Large group portrait of men and young boys operating a steam tractor that is being used for belt-driven threshing machinery in a field. In the foreground a...
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Third Street

Date: 1864
Description: View looking north up Third Street near Market Square. There are five boys and a horse in the middle of the road.
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Whiting House

Date: 1880
Description: Stereograph view of the Whiting House with its large harbor and boats. Whiting House is a four-story wood frame Second Empire style hotel standing on the l...
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Industry

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph view of the flour mill district. The Cedar Street Bridge is in the background, and the mills are, right to left going back, the Winnebago Flour...
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Women and Young Girl Leaning on Fence

Date: 1897
Description: Ada Bass, the photographer's wife, leaning against a fence, next to daughter Everetta Bass as a young girl, along a dirt road. The photographer's sister, R...
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Everetta Bass in Buggy

Date: 1895
Description: Everetta Bass sitting in horse-drawn buggy holding a doll. A girl identified as Loura is standing beside the buggy.
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Waterfront on the Grounds of Benjamin Walker Castle

Date: 1863
Description: View of the shoreline on the Walker Castle grounds. Two men are boating while a young boy fishes from the shore.
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Three Boys in a Boat

Date: 05 06 1894
Description: Three boys in a crude boat on the Monongahela River.
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Mary C. and Grandpa

Date: 1898
Description: An elderly man stands in a room holding a small girl. Caption on negative reads, "Mary C. and Grandpa."
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Two Children Playing Outside

Date: 1896
Description: Two boys, Verne and Fay Canon, pose outdoors. Verne sits in a small tree and rests his feet on the front tire of a bicycle, while Fay stands and rests his ...
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Young Girl on Wooden Bridge

Date: 1894
Description: A young girl poses on a rustic wooden bridge in the woods.
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F.D. Eyerley and Daughter

Date: 1897
Description: F.D. Eyerley crouches down to give his daughter a kiss. A bicycle is propped against a wooden fence which runs the perimeter of the front yard of the West ...

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