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| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Chilton with insets of points of interest, including P.H. Becker's Brewery, Chilton House, and Gutheil's Block. |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Kewaskum. Includes a list of hotels, churches, post office, railroad depot, etc. |
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| Description: | The dome of the third Wisconsin State Capitol, which was constructed entirely of iron and glass, as it appeared in 1878. The dome was painted white which s... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Painters working on the cornice of one of the four octagonal towers of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Also visible is the Italianate ornamentation of the iro... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin State Capitol as it appeared after the completion of the dome in 1869. At that time only the dome and the upper stories can be seen above the... |
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| Description: | Family in farmyard with farm implements, including a grain seeder and a threshing machine. Men are standing on top of hay in a wagon. Farm buildings and a ... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | People are sitting in a horse-drawn wagon and standing next to farm machinery, including a dump rake and a hay mower. A barn is behind them. |
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| Description: | Barnyard, with what appears to be a pigyard littered with corncobs. It is enclosed with a solid board fence and has slop troughs made from hollowed logs. A... |
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| Description: | View across a field towards barns and a house surrounded by fences. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Family standing and on horseback in field with farmstead in background. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A family is seated around a table in their yard, with two of the women dressed in white. Behind them is a substantial two-story bracket style frame house w... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A family is posed in a yard around a table, with a boy holding his hat. Behind them is a substantial two-story bracket style frame house with a widow's wal... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Two women and a man posed in the garden path of an L-shaped Greek Revival frame house. The front and back doors are open, revealing a breezeway straight th... |
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| Description: | Men stand in the yard, and a woman stands on the porch of a frame house with double brackets, double front doors with screen doors and a double walkway lea... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Four women are posing in a yard among trees, and one woman is sitting on the porch of the house. A dog is sitting in a chair in the yard near one of the wo... |
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| Description: | A family is in the yard around a table. A baby sits in a high chair and a man and woman are seated on a loveseat. Behind them is a frame house with an orga... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A family of nine, and a dog, are posing standing in the yard of an upright and wing house with a porch nearly completely walled-in by latticework. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Couple on front porch, man in hat, woman in bonnet, with chair on porch and grain of door noticeable; box underneath porch; brick foundation behind porch s... |
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| Description: | A family sits in the yard of a large brick house that has round-top windows with two small windows on the third floor. The porch has a latticework skirting... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Family in yard with carriage with large stone house behind that has shutters closed. The house was built in 1845. Harmon J. Hill was the first supervisor o... |
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