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| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | View of the Fox River between Green Bay and Fort Howard. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul passenger depot with several people standing in front of the building. This is the Franklin Street station on East Wilson Str... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Original Chicago & North Western Railroad passenger station, 219 South Blair Street at East Wilson Street, with a few men gathered out front. Torn down in... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | View across intersection towards the Sawyer County Bank, with a group of people posed near its corner doorway. The Sawyer County Bank was organized on Marc... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View of the Methodist Church and parsonage, with Reverend Elvardo Cyrus Potter standing outside with his daughter, Grace. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Group of barn raising participants posed in front of the structure in progress. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Seated group of women and children participating in a barn raising. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Hull mill (right), showing Merlin Hull's ancestral home at left. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a mill owned by George Mills Hull. Three men stand in the foreground, and three more stand near the entrance to the mill. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Picnic Point from University Drive. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | View over Mississippi River of town on shoreline with bluff in the background. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | A carte-de-visite of Josiah Monroe May in a wagon, at the age of about 60 years. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | View of the gate to the Wisconsin State Capitol grounds, looking out to the street. On the left on the opposite side of the street is a building with a sig... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Burton House, (also referred to as the Ridge House by Edna Ferber in her novel, "Come and Get It") with horse-drawn carriages in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Dane County Courthouse, begun in the fall of 1883 and finished in the spring of 1886. The cost, including equipment, was a little over $180,000. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | The Kimball and Lowell Hardware Store located on the corner of Franklin and Milwaukee Streets. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | A panoramic view of the east bank of the Wisconsin River from the Green Bay & Western Railway bridge to the wagon bridge. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of houses and buildings in Wonewoc. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the front of the Rock County Poor House. The three-story house is set on a hill. In the right foreground is a small building and ... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two men in the DuCharme house, later known as the Grignon house. |
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