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| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Monona Lake Assembly, The Casino. This structure, including the ice house and provision space, designed by Conover and Porter and built for $1700.00 in Jun... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | View of the Mississippi River from Alma. Caption reads: "Mississippi River. Ice Palace and Cyclone Views." |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Illustrated view of Superior, as well as Omaha, Kansas City, St. Paul, and Winnipeg. Caption reads: "Superior - The Last Possible Great Marine City in the ... |
| Date: | 07 03 1886 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored postcard of the interior of the Schlitz Palm Garden. Located on N. 3rd Street, south of W. Wisconsin Avenue, the Schlitz Palm Garden opened on... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Park Hotel, with city traffic in the streets in the foreground. "'Park Hotel' South Corner Capitol Park." The reverse side gives a des... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View towards Lake Monona, with the Dane County Courthouse on the right. Text at bottom reads: "Curtiss Madison Wis." |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Print advertising the Milwaukee Industrial Exposition. View of building with flags flying from almost every peak on the the roof. Pedestrians and horse-dra... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | View across river toward the malt house. In the background is the south side brewery of the same company. There are two steamboats, one large, one small. ... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of five Hayward Indian School students, possibly a basketball team, from L to R: John C... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view from shoreline of the rock formation in the Dells of the Wisconsin River. A man is paddling a canoe in the foreground. Printed o... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Black and white illustration of the Proud Mary Hotel (now the Whistling Swan). |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Perry Lutheran Evangelical Church, which is misspelled in the caption as "Parry Norw. Luth. Church." The photograph was taken some time between... |
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