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Yerkes Observatory

Date: 1935
Description: Elevated exterior view of Yerkes Observatory. Geneva Lake is in the background, left. Roads and sidewalks cross the sweeping, well tended lawns. The desi...
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Bascom Hall Exterior

Date: 1935
Description: View looking up Bascom Hill to Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Flood on Bay City Creek

Date: 1920
Description: Aftermath of the Bay City Creek flood.
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Durkee House

Date: 1860
Description: Elevated view of the Durkee House built by Charles Durkee in 1843.
Photograph

Longwell House

Date: 1920
Description: The Longwell house, residence of Hugh Longwell. It was used for the first school in Somers Township.
Photograph

Eli G. Runal Home

Date: 1900
Description: The house of Eli G. Runal, now part of the Willowbrook Sanatarium.
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Kohler Company Plant

Date: 1948
Description: Aerial view of the Kohler Company plant.
Photograph

Waukesha Co. Newspaper's First Home

Date: 
Description: View of the Waukesha County newspaper's first home.
Photograph

High Street

Date: 1895
Description: View from sidewalk across unpaved High Street in Mineral Point. There is a large clock hanging above the sidewalk on the right.
Photograph

St. John's-in-the-Wilderness Episcopal Church

Date: 1900
Description: Interior view of St. John's-in-the-Wilderness Episcopal Church, looking towards the altar.
Drawing

Street View

Date: 
Description: View of street. People walking and riding on horse and buggies. One building reads "E. SMTH'S BLOCK".
Photograph

Statue of Leif Ericson

Date: 1915
Description: Located in Juneau Park, the statue is on the right, on the edge of a steep hill. The hillside is lined with paths, and ends next to several railroad track...
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Nurses' Dormitory

Date: 1940
Description: View across street of dormitory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Photograph

Important Interview

Date: 1947
Description: John J. McCoy, U.S. Commissioner in Germany being interviewed by Mutual news analyst Cecil Brown. Brown made his reputation during the post-World War II ye...
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Unidentified Civil War Group

Date: 
Description: Group portrait of unidentified Civil War veterans around a cannon. Probably a Grand Army of the Republic reunion.
Book or Pamphlet

Morrisdale Coal Company's Shaft

Date: 
Description: A view of the Morrisdale Coal Company's shaft showing surface buildings before the fire of December 15, 1899.
Photograph

Burned Cutover Land

Date: 
Description: Charred stumps and cut trunks of trees in the foreground with unburned forest in the distance.
Book or Pamphlet

N.C. Thompson Advertising Booklet

Date: 1880
Description: Front page of booklet with an engraving of a man with a team of two horses in a field with the "Celebrated Gorham Sulky Cultivator."

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