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| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | The Third Ward, East Side, or Barlett School, after additions had been put on in the rear. The Bartlett after whom the school building was named was Willia... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View of Eau Claire from eastside hill near Carter. A man and young child are standing in front of a fence in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Front entry way to the "Washington" school, on the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and Broadway. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View across unpaved Main Street, with storefronts on the right, including a restaurant and meat market. Caption reads: "Main Street". |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View down pier towards shoreline and building at Lake Geneva at Montague's and Porter's resort, later W.F. Furbecks, at the site of Fontana Park or Buena V... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View of buildings in an industrial area with a forest in the background. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Mississippi River stereograph, with a St. Jacob's Oil building in the distance. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of buildings in Glen Haven. Bluffs are in the background. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | "Lawton's Folly," the home of Joseph Lawton, built in 1851, between De Pere and Ft. Howard. Joseph Lawton came from Pennsylvannia. This building no longer ... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View of the Methodist Church and parsonage, with Reverend Elvardo Cyrus Potter standing outside with his daughter, Grace. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Group of barn raising participants posed in front of the structure in progress. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Seated group of women and children participating in a barn raising. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Burton House, (also referred to as the Ridge House by Edna Ferber in her novel, "Come and Get It") with horse-drawn carriages in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | A panoramic view of the east bank of the Wisconsin River from the Green Bay & Western Railway bridge to the wagon bridge. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two men in the DuCharme house, later known as the Grignon house. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Norwegian Octagon church, built in 1852 and torn down about 1891 or 1892. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | The Faville home, built about 1850 on 120 acres bought from the government in 1844. As late as 1922 the home was still in the Faville family. The additions... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | The Faville home, built about 1850 on 120 acres bought from the government in 1844. As late as 1922 the home was still in the Faville family. The additions... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "First Soldier's Monuments Erected in the US — Lancaster Wis". There is a cannon and cannon balls on the lawn to the left of the monuments. |
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