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| Date: | 09 04 1895 |
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| Description: | Julius Koehler family in their garden in front of their newly built frame home. The original Koehler farm was destroyed by forest fire in July of 1894, evi... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Main Street, with its dirt, ruts, cows (and presumably manure), but wide enough for easy hitching of wagons and teams. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Several houses at the intersection of Wilson Street and Monona Avenue with the home of Simeon Mills, one of Madison's most prominent citizens, on the corne... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Amund Rustebakke, standing in doorway, and Siri Rustebakke, center, sitting, in front of a house with her daughters and daughter-in-law and four spinning w... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | The Madison water tower and farmers' market as seen through the stone gateway at the East Washington Avenue entrance to the Capitol Park. The building on t... |
| Date: | 04 24 1899 |
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| Description: | Partial view of a boathouse at the foot of North Carroll Street, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built for the city of Madison. The University of Wiscon... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Three men posing with a McCormick mower and binder in front of M. Sheehan's McCormick Harvesting Machine Company dealership. A note on the back of the prin... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | View of home atop of Observatory Hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 09 1895 |
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| Description: | A lone man poses with haystacks in northern Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 09 09 1895 |
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| Description: | Two men with scythes stand in front of a sorghum patch planted on May 20th, 1895. The view was taken near Osceola. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Officers of Company I, 7th Wisconsin Infantry: (left to right) Lt. Joseph N.P. Bird, Captain George H. Walther, and Lt. Christopher Lefler. Their Black ser... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | The Fairchild and Northwestern locomotive the "Gracie May," named for Gracie May Foster. Several people pose near the locomotive, including Robert Holmes a... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Lake shore with men and railroad tracks on Devil's Lake. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Post office with man and dog. This was the Louisville Post Office, west of Downsville in the town of Dunn. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | D.F. Brown house during the spring or summer, with two elm trees, three children and a woman. A picket fence runs along the sidewalk in the front of the ho... |
| 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: | School children pose for a group portrait in front of a school. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A large family group and workers pose in field in front of farming machinery and haystacks. |
| Date: | 06 1862 |
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| Description: | The 7th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment camp outside of Fredericksburg on the east side of the Rappahannock. Fredericksburg and a pontoon bridge lea... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Large group of Union soldiers, possibly including Lieutenant D.G. Hudson, at Camp Douglas in Chicago, Illinois. |
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