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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Man and woman posing sitting, each holding a child in their lap, and a young man, girl, and a boy holding a toy horn, are posing standing. The group is pos... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View across water towards men and boys swimming and splashing in the Mississippi River. Alma is in the background on the far shoreline. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A man and three boys in swimming suits at the beach. Presumably, Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A family campsite with a woman and three boys standing next to a canvass wall tent. In front of the tent is a campfire with pots, and a log with a hatchet ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Two small girls dressed in ruffles and bows sit on a woven carpet outside in the sun. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of people, horses, and wagons gathered in the center of Fountain City to celebrate McCormick Day. Scherer's Hotel is at left. The event was o... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | The Taylor Orphan Asylum, view from the rear. Children are playing on the lawn in front. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Ada Bass sitting in a rocking chair reading, while her daughter Everetta is sweeping the front porch of the family home. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Everetta Bass, the photographer's daughter, standing nude next to rocking horse. She, along with the rocking horse and a baby carriage, are on an unidentif... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking west on W. National Avenue from about S. 6th Street, towards a parade marching down National Avenue with a crowd of people watching, ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Pavilion with posed group of picnickers on one of the Apostle Islands. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Cyanotype view of side of boathouse on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View in winter from Lake Mendota of skaters near shoreline of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Science Hall and the Chemical Laboratory building... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Oblique view from the Mississippi River. Two young women are in a rowboat near the shoreline, and two young men are fishing in the river. Alma at the foot ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View of Alma across river from sandbar. A rowboat is on the sandbar, and on the right a father and child are standing posed each with one foot on a log. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | On the right a mailman is standing with his horse and cart. The cart is labeled "RFD Route No.1" and "U.S. Mail." Members of his family, one boy and one gi... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Five teenagers ride "High Wheeler or Penny-Farthing" bicycles down the street. Grand Avenue Congregational Church is in the background. Mature trees are on... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view from footbridge with rustic railings of a small boy wearing a large hat standing at the end of the footbridge. A group of adults and anoth... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Edward M. Fuller family and guests during a pause at a 'frolic' at the residence located east of the Yahara River. Part of the group ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view across water towards the starting line of a two-oared scull race on Geneva Lake. At the front of the line a judge wearing a dark jac... |
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