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Camp Randall Field

Date: 1906
Description: Elevated view of Camp Randall Field from the top of Bascom Hall, with University Heights in the background. A crowd is in the stands at the stadium, and a ...
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Cross Plains from Lutheran Church Hill

Date: 1860
Description: Elevated view of multiple buildings in Cross Plains from Lutheran Church Hill. Many roads and fences cross the fields. Wooded hills are in the background. ...
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Fox River

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph view across what may be the Fox River, or a field with snow on the ground. There are large buildings behind a fence in the background. Caption ...
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St. Peter's Church Steeple

Date: 05 1984
Description: "Workers do steeple repair on St. Peter's Church."
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Train and Depot

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Description: View along railroad tracks towards a group of men and boys standing on a platform in front of the Preston Depot while a locomotive arrives. In the backgrou...
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Sextonville Alert Hall

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Description: Exterior of Alert Hall. Near the roof line is a sign with the date "1905". Posters are in the windows and a broadside is posted outside underneath a window...
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Scenic View

Date: 1924
Description: A road intersection in a rural area. A tree and a shed on the left. A general store in the back. A house, a shed and a cornfield on the right.
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Street Scene

Date: 1916
Description: View down middle of unpaved street towards six children standing in the middle. There is a storefront on the right, with an automobile and a horse and bugg...
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Birds Eye View

Date: 1921
Description: Elevated view of Woodstock, with dwellings, farm buildings and a church. Pastures and fields surround the town.
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General View

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Description: Elevated view of the railroad yards. There are numerous sheds and buildings, and piles of fuelwood and lumber. Freight cars are lined up on the tracks in f...
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Real Estate Office

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Description: A small real estate office in a rural setting advertising "Summer Homes for Sale on Red Cedar Lake." There is a house in the background on a low hill in th...
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Scenic View on Lower Dam

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Description: Elevated view from hill looking down at a river and reservoir. A railroad train is moving along railroad tracks on the opposite side of the river. Houses a...
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View of the City of Archangel

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of Archangel [Archangelsk], Russia. There are pedestrians on the snowy street below. Buildings and dwellings line the streets. In the backgro...
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View of the City of Archangel

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of Archangel [Archangelsk], Russia, with buildings, dwellings and yards. Pedestrians are walking on the street below. In the distance are fie...
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West Suburban Transpartation Co. IH Bus

Date: 10 19 1922
Description: Right side view of a circa 1922 International Harvester bus. The side of the bus reads: "West Suburban Transportation Co. Cicero, Berwyn, Riverside, Lyons,...
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Woman on a Horse

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Description: Exterior portrait of a woman posing sitting side-saddle on a horse in a field. There are roads in the background, and a building in the distance on the rig...
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Picking Strawberries

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Description: Elevated view across field towards people picking strawberries in a field on the edge of town.
Postcard

Railroad Crossing

Date: 1908
Description: View across the railroad crossing at Hales Corners. Wagons are parked along the side of the road in the background. Two men are standing on the corner near...
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Train Entering Railroad Yard

Date: 09 04 1925
Description: Elevated view across dirt road towards a train entering a railroad yard.
Postcard

Bird's-Eye View of Johnson Kreek

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Description: Photographic postcard view of the rooftops of Johnson Creek and surrounding landscape. Caption reads: "Bird's-Eye View of Johnson Kreek[sic] Wis."

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