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Filter: Year of 1800-1899
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Galena (lead sulfide) was melted at this open hearth furnace owned by Richard Straw and Company on the Roundtree Branch of the Little Platte River. The men... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | D.F. Brown house during the spring or summer, with two elm trees, three children and a woman. A picket fence runs along the sidewalk in the front of the ho... |
| Date: | 11 01 1896 |
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| Description: | Canal Street less than a year before a fire swept through and destroyed many of these buildings on March 22, 1897, resulting in a loss of about $45,000. Pr... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of street corner, with two buildings that have been destroyed by a fire, a brick fence, and some trees. There is a wooden cart in th... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View of Bloomington by the pioneer photographer of the village, Frank Witcomb, sometime after 1873. There are buildings identified in the foreground on bot... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | View of Bloomington, with a man in the foreground looking over the vista. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Oval-framed view of the village, founded by Delos W. Taft, had its name changed to Bloomington in 1867. It had been named Tafton. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Geiger house, residence of John Geiger. His son, Ferdinand A. Geiger, was a Federal District Judge in Milwaukee from 1912 through the 1930s. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Mississippi River stereograph, with a St. Jacob's Oil building in the distance. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of buildings in Glen Haven. Bluffs are in the background. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View of the Jenckes house, home of Dr. J.L. Jenckes, physician and surgeon. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | The home of Governor Nelson Dewey, built in 1842 and later owned by Miss Abbey Phelps. |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | The Grant County Soldier's Monument was erected in 1866 and dedicated in July of 1867. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "First Soldier's Monuments Erected in the US — Lancaster Wis". There is a cannon and cannon balls on the lawn to the left of the monuments. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Stereograph elevated view of a home in Lancaster. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Lancaster from behind a wooden fence. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view looking downhill towards the three-story Farwell Hotel in Lancaster. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view looking downhill towards Lancaster, with the Congregational Church to the right. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of an elevated view of Court House Square in Lancaster. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view across grounds towards the Trinity Episcopal Church, built in 1864. |
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