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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men, women, and children posing standing in front of a wooden building, probably a school house and possibly the South Alma School. Secon... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of two men and three women posing sitting, in front of three men and six women posing standing in front of a painted backdrop in a photogra... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View across road towards the exterior of a brick elementary school in northern Wisconsin. A large group of children and adults pose from within the schooly... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | View towards front entrance of the partially constructed Senior High School. A man is walking up a board into the open doorway of the school. A horse is st... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Professor Irving Roland. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Outdoor class group portrait of the 5th and 6th grades of Muscoda Public School. An "X" marks Emma Schmitt (the future Mrs. Sherwin Gillett). Boys kneel in... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | "Recitation Room" at Downer College. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Posed group portrait of men and women members of the “Class of '86” at Lawrence College. The 8 men have silk top hats and the 4 women have umbrellas, for a... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Caption from photograph: "Proposed site of library building. Wis[consin] Histor[ical] Soc[iety].--looking N.W. Building would occupy place now covered by t... |
| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of Azel Parkhurst Ladd (1811-1854). Ladd was the Wisconsin state superintendent of public instruction in 1852. Oval-framed quarte... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the front of a large brick school building. Identified as the high school built in 1897 in Black River Falls. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | View across lawn towards a large brick school building. Identified as the high school built in 1897 in Black River Falls. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two men and ten women. Identified as a class of 1897. Back row: Ella Steihl, Carl Ogden, Myrta Crosly, Nor... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Alma Seipp (1876-1966), middle row, second from right, holds a violin in a group portrait of a women's string ensemble, probably at Wellesley College. All ... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the front of the 2nd Ward School building, which was located at 720 E. Gorham Street. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Edgewood Villa, built in 1854, which was bought by Governor C.C. (Cadwallader) Washburn in 1873. Later, the grounds and building becam... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Group of people standing near two buildings which burned in 1893. In the center background is Edgewood Villa, a home purchased by Governor C.C. (Cadwallade... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | The Whitewater State College football team posing in a snap formation on a hill just outside the college. People are watching from a college building at th... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Sixth-plate ferrotype/tintype. Waist-up portrait of Theodore Bernhard, from Watertown, Wisconsin. Educator, member of the assembly in 1854. He is facing to... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over dwellings and yards towards Bascom Hall, with South and North Halls on the left and right of Bascom Hill, and Music Hall with its clock ... |
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