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Village Across Pond

Date: 1875
Description: A view of the village from a nearby bluff across a pond. Men, women and children, standing spaced apart, are posing in the field near the pond.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of the City of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

Date: 1874
Description: Bird's-eye map of Chippewa Falls.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Viroqua

Date: 1879
Description: Bird's-eye view of Viroqua, county seat of Vernon County.
Photograph

Snow-Covered Skating Pond

Date: 1895
Description: Winter scene of the skating pond at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Photograph

Pond at Wisconsin State Fish Hatchery

Date: 1879
Description: A pond at the Wisconsin State Fish Hatchery (aka Nevin Fish Hatchery, 3911 Fish Hatchery Road) with a sign reading "Brook Trout 3 and 4 years old." Funds f...
Painting

State Fish Hatchery

Date: 1875
Description: An artist's depiction of an elevated view of the first State Fish Hatchery (aka Nevin Fish Hatchery, 3911 Fish Hatchery Road).
Photograph

Mill Pond, Shullsburg, Wisconsin

Date: 1898
Description: Elevated view of a mill pond, with a group of three women and a man standing near the shoreline on the right.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Mower on Park or Estate Grounds

Date: 1899
Description: A male grounds keeper is driving a horse-drawn mower down a path on a park or estate grounds. Another man is leaning against a slender tree. Both men are w...
Photograph

Syl at Soldiers' Home

Date: 07 23 1898
Description: Syl stands in front of a pavilion with a well or water pump in a park. A group of adults dressed fashionably stand in the pavilion while drinking water fro...
Photograph

Syl at Reservoir Park

Date: 08 28 1898
Description: Syl playing with toy boats at a small pond at Reservoir Park. Other children and adults are around the pond which is on a hill. In the background below the...
Photograph

Syl at Reservoir Park near Small Waterfall

Date: 08 28 1898
Description: Syl playing with other children at reservoir park near a small waterfall. Toy boats are in the pond.
Photograph

Syl Standing by Pond

Date: 05 28 1899
Description: Syl standing in front of a small pond in Reservoir Park. A large group of people is gathered in the background around a tree.
Photograph

Syl at Soldier's Home with Aunt Helen

Date: 07 30 1899
Description: View across pond of Syl at Soldiers Home with aunt Helen standing on a landing near a boat and a flagpole. There is a large group of people gathered around...
Photograph

Lily Pond at Humboldt Park

Date: 08 28 1898
Description: A large lily pond at Humboldt Park. Children are playing in the background and the roof of a building is in the distance.
Photograph

Battle Ground of Resacca, GA No. 4

Date: 1866
Description: View of earthworks at the battlefield at Resacca. Dirt roads cross the field in the distance, leading to a farm and what appears to be a river.
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Photograph

Hillside Cemetery and Park

Date: 1870
Description: View toward the tombstones and a building at Hillside Cemetery and Park. In the foreground is a pond surrounded by vegetation.
Photograph

Clarendon Pond and Village

Date: 1899
Description: A man steers a horse and carriage down a winding country road near Clarendon Pond. Village dwellings are visible across the pond.
Postcard

Weeds Mill

Date: 1885
Description: Photographic postcard view of Weeds Mill. The mill has smokestacks and logs piled on the pond shoreline waiting for processing. A steam locomotive is on th...
Photograph

Pond at Bracken Brae, Country Home of John Johnston

Date: 1888
Description: Several adults, two children and a dog enjoying a pond at Bracken Brae, the country home of John Johnston (1836-1904), a successful Milwaukee banker. Hilda...
Photograph

Where General Reynolds Was Killed

Date: 07 1863
Description: Stereograph of McPherson's Woods, where General John Reynolds, commanding the First Corps of which Wisconsin's 2nd, 6th, and 7th regiments were a part, was...

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