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Newhall House

Date: 1880
Description: Stereograph of elevated view of Newhall House which was destroyed by fire in 1883.
Drawing

Mills in Appleton, Wisconsin-15,000 Lbs. Daily

Date: 1870
Description: Sketch of the Fox River, a train, the mill, a warehouse, and a steamboat.
Photograph

Grist Mill

Date: 1872
Description: Wind powered stone grist mill. Two men stand on a wood balcony near the open doorway of the windmill.
Photograph

Methodist Episcopal Church

Date: 1895
Description: Front entrance to the Methodist Episcopal Church, the first parsonage built at Fayette.
Photograph

Village of Glidden

Date: 1885
Description: View of buildings in an industrial area with a forest in the background.
Drawing

DuCharme House

Date: 1885
Description: The home and fur-trading post of Col. Dominique DuCharme. The portion of the structure on the left was built by DuCharme in 1791. The right portion was add...
Photograph

Octagon House

Date: 1870
Description: Exterior view of the Richards' Octagon House, with a horse and carriage and various people posed in front of it. Caption reads: "Octagon House Watertown Wi...
Photograph

Octagon House

Date: 1870
Description: Exterior view of the Octagon House with a horse and carriage posed in the foreground and several people around it and on its porches. Caption reads: "Octag...
Photograph

627 North Lake Street

Date: 1895
Description: 627 North Lake Street. A cyanotype view looking northeast at the intersection of Lake Street and Mendota Court. This house was built in 1892 for the Chi ...
Photograph

Ripon College West

Date: 1874
Description: Ripon College, West College. A group of people are standing at the entrance.
Photograph

Ripon East

Date: 1874
Description: Handwritten caption reads: "East College of Ripon College, built in 1851."
Photograph

First National Bank of Monroe

Date: 1872
Description: This photograph was made soon after the building was completed. It shows a five-leveled structure which was cut down to two and one-half levels in 1921. At...
Photograph

East Park Fountain

Date: 1895
Description: East Park Fountain.
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Commissary Warehouse at Fort Winnebago

Date: 1898
Description: Ruins of the commissary warehouse at Fort Winnebago, about 1898. Fort Winnebago was closed in 1845 and the land and buildings sold. Today, only the Surgeon...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin-Madison Boathouse

Date: 1890
Description: Cyanotype view of side of boathouse on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Photograph

Conrad F. Kreuz and Curtis Shoes

Date: 1888
Description: View of three men standing together on the board sidewalk outside Kreuz and Curtis Shoes, 21 S. Pinckney Street. The men are wearing suits, ties and hats, ...
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Empire Brewery

Date: 1883
Description: View across State Street towards two buildings, with, on the left, the Hess & Schmitz Livery Boarding and Sale Stable, and on the right the Empire Brewery....
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Yahara River Mill

Date: 1850
Description: A grist mill on the Yahara River at the outlet of Lake Mendota. The mill, called Farwell's Madison Mills was built in 1850 by Governor Farwell. The origina...
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Ina Judge Hanks in her Wedding Dress

Date: 1897
Description: Full-length portrait of Ina Judge wearing her wedding dress while standing in front of a painted backdrop or in a church. Ina Judge married Stanley Hanks o...
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"Pine Barren" — Front View

Date: 1895
Description: Front view of the two-story Queen Anne style home where Lucy and W.A. Holt lived together starting in 1895. The address is 523 Main Street. "A front ver...

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