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Military Band at Lookout Mountain

Date: 1864
Description: Albumen stereograph of the Union Army brass band posed and playing atop Lookout Point. The Tennessee River is in the background.
Map or Atlas

Appleton Outagamie County, Wisconsin

Date: 1867
Description: Birds-eye drawing of Appleton, Outagamie Co., depicting street names and street layout, houses, the Fox River, the court house, jail, school houses, Lawren...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of the City of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

Date: 1874
Description: Bird's-eye map of Chippewa Falls.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of the Village of Kaukauna, Wisconsin

Date: 12 21 1882
Description: Bird's-eye map of Kaukauna, from the Appleton Post Annual Review.
Print

Buffalo Hunt, On Snow Shoes

Date: 1844
Description: Indians on snowshoes hunting buffaloes immobilized by snow (Plate 15).

"In this plate is illustrated the mode alluded to in the preceding page, of the In...

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Observatory Hill

Date: 1898
Description: Elevated view of Observatory Hill, Observatory Hall, the Agriculture Campus and Lake Mendota on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus.
Photograph

Home on Observatory Hill

Date: 1899
Description: View of home atop of Observatory Hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Photograph

Wisconsin Central Freight Cars

Date: 05 05 1897
Description: Elevated view of Wisconsin Central freight cars in a rural storage yard near Manitowoc.
Photograph

View of Menomonie

Date: 1885
Description: Stereograph view of Menomonie. A group of people are sitting on a hill in the foreground overlooking the town.
Photograph

Elevated View of Wisconsin Avenue

Date: 1868
Description: Elevated view up Wisconsin Avenue showing City Hall on the corner at Mifflin Street on the left, with the Post Office to the right. Further down is the Pre...
Photograph

Increase Lapham at Wisconsin Dells

Date: 1869
Description: Increase A. Lapham in the foreground of a rock formation in Taylor's Glen, with A. Holly sitting on a rock in the background.
Photograph

Men with Dog on Ice Jam

Date: 1876
Description: Three men and a dog are standing on thick chunks of ice looking over logs on an icy river.
Photograph

Camping Party at Devil's Lake

Date: 07 1876
Description: A camping party rests at the top of a bluff at Devil's Lake State Park.
Photograph

Man on Horse-Drawn Mower in Hilly Field

Date: 1899
Description: A man sporting a beard and wide-brimmed straw (?) hat is operating a mower pulled by two horses in a field. The field is on hilly terrain. A dirt road and ...
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Indiana Hill

Date: 06 06 1894
Description: A large hill on the Indiana shore, with ripples from a boat visible in the foreground.
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A Lone Tree

Date: 06 06 1894
Description: A view at the mouth of the Wabash River of a lone tree on what appears to be a peninsula.
Photograph

View Across the Tennessee River

Date: 1864
Description: View across the Tennessee River toward the city and Cameron Hill, showing the military bridge and some Union Army installations put up following the occupa...
Photograph

Site of Perrot's Wintering Post

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view over trees towards the Mississippi River. 1885-90. Across the field in the foreground are people with an American flag standing along the sho...

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