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| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | View of the Chequamegon Hotel, built by the Wisconsin Central railroad interests and opened in 1877. It faced the bay and had a long series of steps leadin... |
| Date: | 07 21 1884 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway employees taken outside the railroad's Milwaukee shop. Most of the men appear to be blue collar wor... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | The William McFarland family is gathered around a table covered with books, pine cones, glassware and flowers in front of their Exchange Street house in Mc... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | A family seated around a table that has a fringed cloth. The children sit in small chairs and a woman holds a baby. The frame house behind a picket fence h... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the river and town. Probably prior to 1885 because the Van Schaick building/photograph gallery is not constructed on Second Street. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking west from the Jackson County Courthouse. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View looking up river towards the Kinnickinnic Falls. A bridge is above the falls. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | View across unpaved road towards construction workers at the site of the new city hall. William Waters, architect. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | View from street towards the school building. There is a small group of children sitting on the front steps. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Second Ward School. Newly planted trees with wood supports are in the yard surrounding the school. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the Townsend House, a resort hotel. In the foreground there are three people in a rowboat, rowing under a bridge where four other people are... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Augustus Saint-Gaudens' monument to Abraham Lincoln, installed 1887. Image shows the bronze sculpture from its foot framed by young foliage in the backgro... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a statue honoring Colonel Pierre Menard who also served as the Lieutenant Governor of Illinois and fur traded with Native Americans. Dedicated ... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View of Clermont Street with a young boy in the foreground, homes and trees in the background. Fences and sidewalks line both sides of the street. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | View of flood damage, showing wrecked buildings along the Wisconsin River waterfront. |
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