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| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | The sidewheel packet, Red Wing, in the Mississippi River near Queen's Bluff below Trempealeau, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Large picnic group, mainly children, at lakeshore, possibly McBride's Point in Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | View of campers and tents at McBride's Point at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison. |
| Date: | 08 1852 |
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| Description: | Pencil drawing of Rattlesnake Bluff and the town of Arena from a distance across a plain. A row of buildings runs along the foot of the gently rolling hill... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | View of Black Hawk Bluff, site of the Battle of Wisconsin Heights in the Black Hawk War. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A Norwegian Sunday school picnic, perhaps held at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota. The original stereograph is in the collection of the Norwegian-American Hist... |
| Date: | 03 15 1896 |
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| Description: | Winter view down Capitol Avenue, possibly in Maple Bluff. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a large group of men, women and children, at a lake shore, possibly Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison. The Norwegian flag suggests... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A group of campers at McBride's Point at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota. They are equipped with German exercise equipment (exercise pins, "kegels"), a horn (l... |
| Date: | 07 23 1849 |
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| Description: | Bluff near Green River, where Wilkins' wagon train crossed by ferry; sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California on the Overland... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | F.M. Brown and Annie S. Brown's summer cottage in Maple Bluff. The address would now be 655 Farwell Street. Annie S. Brown is sitting on the porch. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | A group of campers at McBride's Point at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison, Wisconsin. They are equipped with German exercise equipment (exercise pi... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | View over Mississippi River of town on shoreline with bluff in the background. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | The Halle Steensland home, an impressive two-story brick house in Maple Bluff, with five family members posed along the front porches. It is possible this ... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | An ambrotype of Wonewoc, Wisconsin. Fences and buildings are in the foreground, with a tree-lined bluff behind. |
| Date: | 07 1875 |
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| Description: | Chicago Traveling Club encamped at McBride's Point at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison. An African American sits at the left foreground with pans ... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of clam camp with tents, clam shell debris, and wooden buildings. A bluff rises up behind the buildings. |
| Date: | 05 19 1895 |
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| Description: | A view from the bluff of group of men on the dredge bank of Buffalo Lake. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A group portrait of a well-dressed group of young men with hats and canes outdoors. They may be at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Detail from original of part of the family. Original caption reads: "Halle Steensland and his wife Sophia pose with their five children (left to right: Mor... |
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