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Train Crossing a Bridge

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Description: A freight train makes its way across a bridge over a dam on the Black River.
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White River Bridges

Date: 1910
Description: View from shoreline of a railroad train crossing a bridge over the famous White River near Ashland. In the foreground is an open automobile crossing the ri...
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Railroad Bridge at Wisconsin Dells

Date: 1877
Description: View of the lower level of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railroad bridge at the Wisconsin Dells that would have been used by pedestrians and horse-d...
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22nd Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers

Date: 09 22 1862
Description: The 22nd Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers under the command of Colonel William L. Utley, crossing the pontoon bridge at Cincinnati.
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Chippewa Falls Riverfront

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Description: Elevated view of the riverfront, railroad tracks, and river, "as viewed from Joseph McGuire's."
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Manitowoc Railroad Yard

Date: 05 15 1897
Description: Elevated view of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway yards looking northwest. The elevator of the Northern Grain Company is in the middle distance.
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Spillway at Mill Pond

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Description: Spillway at millpond between 1940 and 1946.
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McCord Rock, Devil's Rock, Donald's Rock, Preacher's Cap

Date: 1876
Description: View of a farmstead with fences, haystacks and a wooden outbuilding. Two men are posing on top of McCord Rock, one of them saluting with his hat. Another ...
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Distant View of Clinton across Koshonong Creek

Date: 1874
Description: Elevated view from hill of Clinton, now Rockdale. Three men are in the middle distance, looking east across Koshonong Creek towards a mill dam, bridge and ...
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Interior View of Suspension Bridge

Date: 1877
Description: View towards men and women sitting and standing, beneath the lower deck of a suspension bridge (train uses upper deck). There are two booths (for tolls or ...
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View of Argyle

Date: 1876
Description: Probably one of the "Three different views of the village of Argyle, Wis." mentioned in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views." A view of the town a...
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Niagara Falls from Canada Side

Date: 1877
Description: Stereograph of "Two different views of the Falls from Canada side," from the series "Niagara Falls and Suspension Bridge" as mentioned in Dahl's 1877 "Cata...
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Bridge, Dam and Mill in Moscow

Date: 1875
Description: View of a bridge, dam and mill. Moscow was platted in 1850 by an Englishman, Chauncy Smith, who dammed the Bluemound branch of the Pecatonica River to run ...
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Iron Bridge across Mississippi

Date: 1875
Description: "Iron Bridge across Mississippi" photographed during "The Norwegian Lutheran Synod held at Minneapolis, Minn., 1875," as described in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogu...
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Side View of the Suspension Bridge, Niagara Falls

Date: 1877
Description: An A.L. Dahl photograph, one of "Two different side views of the Suspension Bridge," from the series "Niagara Falls and Suspension Bridge" as mentioned in ...
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St. Anthony Falls

Date: 1875
Description: "St. Anthony Falls" photographed during the "Norwegian Lutheran Synod held at Minneapolis, Minn., 1875," as listed in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopi...
Photograph

Niagara Falls from Canada Side

Date: 1877
Description: An A.L. Dahl photograph, one of "Two different views of the Falls from Canada side," from the series "Niagara Falls and Suspension Bridge" as mentioned in ...
Painting

Schulz's Farm near Stevens Point in Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: Hölzlhuber located this farm at about three German miles from Stevens Point. The region's soil was quite fertile. A wooden dwelling house stood in the mids...
Painting

A Ride on a Hand-Car on the Great Western Railway, Canada

Date: 1858
Description: "One of the most interesting expeditions which I have ever made in my life was a trip on a hand-car," Hölzlhuber wrote. Julius Movius, the General Agent fo...
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Continental View of World's Columbian Exposition

Date: 1892
Description: Bird's-eye view of the Columbian Exposition pavilions from the vantage point of Lake Michigan. Included is an inset of the Union Passenger Station (now Uni...

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