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| Date: | 07 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Tornado damage in Truax Field area. The Anderson house chimney was damaged, and the trees surrounding it were uprooted. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View from across road of Baxter House, a two-story wooden structure. A man is sitting on the roof working on the chimney. A bell tower is seen behind the r... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Weathered building, possibly at Walnut Grove, the family farm of Cyrus McCormick. Walnut Grove was near Steele's Tavern, Virginia. |
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| Description: | Shops under construction for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha railroad lines. Men are working with a horse-drawn wagon in the right foreground... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Mississippi River from the Brisbois Mansion. Left to right: Dousman House Hotel, railroad station, electrical plant smokestack, Diamond Jo warehouse, and a... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Cabin built by Jacob Rieder, an early Swiss settler of New Glarus. |
| Date: | 09 1962 |
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| Description: | View across yard of a house beside the Portage Canal. It was unoccupied at the time of this photograph. |
| Date: | 02 05 1928 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the Portage Canal, looking east from the canal bridge. A man is standing on a large platform on the left side of the canal near a... |
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| Description: | Brick plant, possibly the one at Haley, six to seven miles up the river from Black River Falls. May also be a sawmill, as piles of lumber are in the foregr... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | A straw lead furnace, an open hearth furnace where lead sulphite (Galena) was roasted. Located on the Rountree branch of the Little Platte River, Richard S... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | The Empire zinc and lead mine. Very litle lead is now produced. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Cottage built by Marie Gatter beginning in the 1920s along the shore road in the park. It was razed in the winter of 1960-61. The chimney was originally pa... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View from Oshkosh Avenue across icy river towards the Pluswood factory in the distance. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of an elevated view of the ruins after the fire of April 28, 1875. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of Paine Lumber Company from across the Fox River. Pilings are in the foreground. Founded in 1853 by Edward L. Paine, located on the east bank of the ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Northern Wisconsin Hospital for the Insane. |
| Date: | 10 08 1945 |
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| Description: | A large barn and outbuilding on the Quaker Oats farm, 4202 Monona Drive. |
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| Description: | Children's carriages manufacturing plant. The factory was purchased about 1875 by A.D. Crocker and his brothers and converted to furniture manufacturing. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Chicago River near International Harvester's McCormick Works (factory). A sailboat, water tower, railroad cars and many industrial buildings line the shore... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of International Harvester's Osborne Works factory (later known as "Auburn Works") and the surrounding neighborhood. |
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