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| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Oval-framed tintype portrait of John Alcock, a professor of phonography/shorthand at Bayless' Business College of Dubuque. He moved to Platteville and foun... |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Pleasant Ridge Log Church. Pleasant Ridge farmers built a United Brethren Church in 1884. |
| Date: | 05 12 1889 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Nelson Dewey on a cabinet card. He is wearing a suit and has a long white beard. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Conrad Schmitt family of Muscoda. Emma Schmitt married Sherwin Gillett in 1906. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Outdoor class group portrait of the 5th and 6th grades of Muscoda Public School. An "X" marks Emma Schmitt (the future Mrs. Sherwin Gillett). Boys kneel in... |
| Date: | 1829 |
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| Description: | Wash drawing of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Hollman, who were early settlers in Platteville, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Pedestrian walking on the snowy street in front of Daniel Fitch Brown's house. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Several generations of a family posing on the porch of a house. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View over water of a three-decked sternwheeler loaded with passengers and flying two large flags. The one at the back is a United States flag. There is a s... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Potosi Brewery at about the time Adam Schumacher took over the operation. Children and adults can be seen near a fence and in horse-dr... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Galena (lead sulfide) was melted at this open hearth furnace owned by Richard Straw and Company on the Roundtree Branch of the Little Platte River. The men... |
| Date: | 11 01 1896 |
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| Description: | Canal Street less than a year before a fire swept through and destroyed many of these buildings on March 22, 1897, resulting in a loss of about $45,000. Pr... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | On the right a mailman is standing with his horse and cart. The cart is labeled "RFD Route No.1" and "U.S. Mail." Members of his family, one boy and one gi... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | The home of Governor Nelson Dewey, built in 1842 and later owned by Miss Abbey Phelps. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "First Soldier's Monuments Erected in the US — Lancaster Wis". There is a cannon and cannon balls on the lawn to the left of the monuments. |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Grant County Soldier's Monument. A group of people are standing around the monument. A large building is in the background. Caption at... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view across grounds towards the Trinity Episcopal Church, built in 1864. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | A straw lead furnace, an open hearth furnace where lead sulphite (Galena) was roasted. Located on the Rountree branch of the Little Platte River, Richard S... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Geiger house, residence of John Geiger. His son, Ferdinand A. Geiger, was a Federal District Judge in Milwaukee from 1912 through the 1930s. |
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