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| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Rev. A. Jacobson, family and visitors, Perry, Wis." from Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views." Jacobson (1836-1910) immigrated to t... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | James Peterson, son of the photographer, playing the harmonica. He is sitting against a stump, with trees in the distance. |
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| Description: | Laurie Peterson, son of the photographer, plays in boat. The photograph was originally titled "The Lone Boatsman". |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Laurie, Muriel, and James Peterson, children of the photographer, sledding near the family home. Handwritten on reverse, "Laurie, Muriel, James Peterson, c... |
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| Description: | View across water towards Laurie Peterson, son of the photographer, fishing from a rock on a misty morning near the family home. |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the photographer, Carl A. Peterson, taking a moment to light his pipe while fishing from a boat near the family home. |
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| Description: | Children riding the carousel (merry-go-round) at Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo), donated by the citizens of the Madison area. A stone bridge is in the ba... |
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| Description: | View from a stone bridge towards Vilas Park, with children riding the carousel (merry-go-round) and a kiddie train adjacent to the lagoon. |
| Date: | 12 09 1933 |
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| Description: | View of the Central High School entrance arch at 214 Wisconsin Avenue. Ivy is growing around the entrance, and is obscuring the carved letters of "High Sch... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of a man drinking from a glass of wine in a vineyard in France. In the background a vineyard worker is cultivating the field with an Inter... |
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| Description: | Tents, people in costume, and food tables at a carnival on the grounds of Taliesin. Taliesin was the Wisconsin residence of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Tali... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Man delivering beverages to the Silver Swan Inn with an International K-5 truck. The truck was equipped with a 161 x 76 bottle body. Photograph was taken f... |
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| Description: | Children, men with hats, and women with parasols, are watching men work in a field with a horse-drawn plow and other agricultural equipment. A house is in... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a family standing near a small and neat rural frame house. The women are wearing hats. One man is leaning against the house with ... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | A family of twelve is grouped outdoors around a table. Behind them is a picket fence and a frame house, with latticework and carpenter's lace decorating it... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | "Professor R.B. Anderson, his Family & Visitors." Seated outdoors left to right around a table are: Mrs. R.B. Anderson, H. Herlofson, Professor Rasmus B. A... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | "Iron Bridge across Mississippi" photographed during "The Norwegian Lutheran Synod held at Minneapolis, Minn., 1875," as described in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogu... |
| Date: | 05 17 1870 |
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| Description: | A large group, mainly men, are gathered behind the "Lake City Cornet Band" who are in uniform near a lake shore, possibly Lake Monona. The card was marked ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Droster's Grocery store and filling station. The business was located on the corner of 1438 North Sherman Avenue and Logan Street and was ... |
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