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| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across Bascom Hill on the campus of the University of Wisconsin. Student cadets in training march past South Hall down Bascom Hill. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Small steam yacht decorated with pennants on Lake Geneva. A small group is at the front of the yacht. Shoreline with boathouses and dwellings can be seen i... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Scattered figures of a picnic party on a grassy slope. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Timber railroad trestle over a wooded valley, apparently at the final stage of construction. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Bridge carpenters and other workmen with a winch constructing a railroad trestle over a wooded valley. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View of Clermont Street with a young boy in the foreground, homes and trees in the background. Fences and sidewalks line both sides of the street. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View along Van Buren Street, looking north from Mason Street. Three children are sitting on the curb at the corner. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View towards a railroad bridge across a river. Identified as the railroad bridge across the Black River after 1885. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Six prominent German American brewers pose outdoors, seated around a table, for a portrait labeled "The Poterhouse [sic] Club." Well-dressed in suits and h... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the large hotel at Kayes Park on the south shore of Geneva Lake. There are two girls standing in the foreground, with well-dressed women in ... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View of the Wisconsin Hospital for the Insane and grounds. In 1935 it became the Mendota State Hospital. It was built in 1860 by architect Stephen Vaughn S... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Team of oxen in front of a sod shanty on the Dakota plains. Two men stand behind the team on the right. The animals are hitched to a plow. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline towards Tonyawatha House and several outbuildings on Lake Monona. There is a long dock extending into the lake from a boathouse on the... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the "Solid Comfort" on Lake Mendota. A man is standing on the cabin roof at the front; with a man and woman standing below him. O... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | The George A. Whiting Paper Mill, with men posing on switching engines of the three railroads then operating in the city in the foreground. Left to right: ... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Six deer hunters are posing with their rifles, dogs, and nine killed deer hanging from a buck pole supported by log structures on the left and right. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | A cyanotype portrait of Mary Crane, a Ho-Chunk Indian woman. She has a blanket around her shoulders and is wearing a headband. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over trees towards the Mississippi River. 1885-90. Across the field in the foreground are people with an American flag standing along the sho... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd of people standing near an artesian well. Men wearing long coats and hats to protect them from the water are standing on and unde... |
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