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| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man leading a circus elephant on Main Street. On the opposite side of the street is a crowd watching from behind the iron fence on the C... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Madison City Hall at the corner of Mifflin Street and Wisconsin Avenue, as viewed through the trees of the Capitol Park. The three-story tal... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of boarders, all railroad shop workers, sitting on the front porch at Mrs. Armour's boarding house. Left to right are: Bill Salsig, Roy Mart... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Group portrait in front of the Immanuel Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church parsonage, and part of a series taken during the meeting of the Eastern Distr... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the State Public School grounds, with numerous school buildings. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A family is posed in farmstead front yard playing croquet and looking at a farmer on a horse-drawn sulky cultivator in cornfield. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A family is gathered in a yard playing croquet. Nearby a child sits on a rocking horse and holds onto a small wagon. Behind that are some women and another... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | A very formal family is seated around a table ornamented with glassware. Men strike poses in the yard. Behind them is a large wood frame Victorian house wi... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | A man, two women, and a girl are posed in a yard by a table. The frame house behind them has cut work trim on its side and front porch and brackets on open... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Two women and a child pose on the porch of a Greek revival frame house. The porch appears to have been added later in a Victorian style, including elaborat... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A family is gathered around a table with dishes on top. To the right is a man sitting and holding a violin, and to his right a boy is holding a gun. The ho... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Men stand in the yard, and a woman stands on the porch of a frame house with double brackets, double front doors with screen doors and a double walkway lea... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View from road down wooden sidewalk which runs adjacent to an elaborate fence along a yard, behind which women stand near the front porch of a frame house ... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A family stands on the porch of small frame house with wing additions. A well is on the far left, and farm buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Family (three men, three women), in yard with frame house, that has a wood bench and hanging plants on porch. There are vines along sides of front door, an... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Seated are Mrs. Guri Gaarden Thompson (mother), one of the Thompson twins, John Thompson (rear), Thosten Thompson (son) and Mr. Thosten Thompson (father). ... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Victorian mansion at 123 S. Madison Street, built in 1870 and owned in 1875 by Samuel Chamberlain. It's mansard roof and iron trim help make the house an ... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Halle Steensland and his wife Sophia pose with their five children (left to right: Morten, Henry, Edward, Halbert and Helen) in front of their home in Mapl... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | John Theodore Parman and his wife Louise stand second and third from the left behind their home's fence. Their daughters can be seen in the windows and the... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Family seated around table in yard with baby on grass and brick house with porch trim and shutters in background. This house is said to resemble the J. Hil... |
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