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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Man driving a horse-drawn trolley of the Milwaukee City Railroad Company on the Greenfield Avenue & Third Street line. The corner of a building advertising... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Man and woman posing sitting, each holding a child in their lap, and a young man, girl, and a boy holding a toy horn, are posing standing. The group is pos... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a barn raising on the farm of Alva Paddock in the township of Salem on Geneva Road, Highway 50. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | George "Uncle Riley" Thompson and his wife and children posing on their farm. The family are, from left to right: Bessie, mother Julia holding Rosie, Mamie... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of an interior group portrait of eight people sitting around a dining table. Identified as the B.G. Stieg family, the W. Dittberner family, Ann... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio photograph of Louis Brosemer wearing a suit and hat. He is standing before a United States flag holding an oversized pen as though it wa... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Ada Bass seated while holding son Cary, with daughter Everetta standing next to her. Another woman, possibly Ada's mother, Arlina Burlingame, i... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Sarah Fairchild Dean Conover, sister of Civil War hero and governor Lucius Fairchild, reclines on a sofa in her home at 424 North Pinckney Street. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Brass band musicians in uniform pose with their instruments. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Logs move down the river, swirling with cross currents, resulting in a huge log jam. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Will Viel chooses a cigar in Margraff & Freiburger's Dry Goods Store. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A man sits on a stool and milks a cow outdoors near a fence. Another cow investigates the camera lens in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | An interior view of the Ada Meinhardt residence. There is an elaborate stairway with several musical instruments displayed below. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Two hunters check their shotguns while their hunting dogs wait in the field. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A man stands in the open doorway of a Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, & Omaha railway boxcar. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A large group of men pose on the wooden framework of a barn that they are building. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Cat, kittens, and dogs sitting on a platform near a board sidewalk. Farm buildings and several woodpiles are visible in the background. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View across water towards a house on the banks of the Mississippi River at the base of rocky bluffs. Probably located between Alma and Nelson, along Beef S... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Children posing on a board sidewalk in front of a schoolhouse in New London. The boys are wearing short pants, leggings, and caps, and the girls are wearin... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | The Whitewater State College football team posing in a snap formation on a hill just outside the college. People are watching from a college building at th... |
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