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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | College students at the University of Wisconsin having a fudge-making party around a small gas burner. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A group of men sharing a meal at a fishing camp near Thunder Lake. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Dining room decorated with streamers for a wedding reception. The table is set formally with candles and there is a wedding cake as a centerpiece. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Two men ride their bicycles past curious on-lookers. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Tableaux of "Martha Washington's Tea Party" enacted by Mrs. Gesell and friends. Left to right: Mrs. Schaettle, Mrs. Kempter, (the younger) Mrs. Fritz Laue,... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A group of three men and two women are standing on a pier inspecting a 15 pound muskellunge. Long Lake is in the background. There is a boathouse at the en... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted background of two young women dressed in long, striped tennis costumes and matching striped caps. They each hold a te... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View across water towards men and boys swimming and splashing in the Mississippi River. Alma is in the background on the far shoreline. |
| 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. |
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