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| Date: | 07 01 1836 |
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| Description: | Original plat map of the town of Madison on the four lakes. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the top of a building of Milwaukee City Hall under construction. |
| Date: | 07 03 1886 |
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| Description: | The east side of the Schlitz Palm Garden at N. 3rd Street, south of W. Wisconsin Avenue. The Schlitz Palm Garden opened on July 3, 1886 and was one of the ... |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye illustration of Milwaukee. |
| 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: | 08 26 1885 |
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| Description: | Pencil on paper; view from Bascom Hill, with buildings, churches, on the right side of street, Wisconsin State Capitol in background, with trees surroundin... |
| Date: | 09 01 1885 |
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| Description: | Pencil on paper; Elevated view of building on street corner with horse-drawn delivery wagon in front. Tall trees line the two streets. Building is two st... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Stereograph; corner of Broad and Wisconsin Avenues. Built in 1870. E.T. Mix, architect. Victorian details decorate the six story building. A small pile of... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Subheading states the center building to be the oldest house in Milwaukee, and built by Matthias Stein in January 1838. The home is only two stories tall,... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Grand Avenue at 4th Street looking east. An electric sign for the Alhambra Theatre is in the center. Pedestrians are crossing the road and are on the sidew... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a view over rooftops of a neighborhood near Lake Michigan. Shoreline can be seen in the background. |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over rooftops looking towards Lake Michigan shoreline. Seaman's Furniture and Rooms building is surrounded by other commercial buildings. The... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of elevated view looking northwest from Exposition Building. There is a church on a street corner on the left, and the Best Brewing Company in ... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Boats used for fighting fires are docked near a walkway. On the left the walkway is full of men, some gathered near the boats and a fire hose stretched out... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a man on Main Street, created by Van Schaick or his colleague, Thomas T. McAdam. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | East Wisconsin Avenue showing men and women on the sidewalks and the Hotel Pfister in the background. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View from Library Mall across Langdon Street of Armory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Also known as the Red Gym or Old Red. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of one of the first Pawling & Harnischfeger machine shops. The building was built in 1886 on the corner of South First Street and East Oregon... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Cyanotype scenic view of the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition grounds showing the U.S. Government Building and a bridge over the lagoon. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Cyanotype view of the Illinois Building at Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition showing a gondola and motor launch on the lagoon near a bridge. A wing of... |
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