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| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | West Koshkonong Lutheran Church and cemetery. Octagonal stone church built in 1852, rebuilt in 1893, seating 800 people. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Balsam Lake Hotel. A person is standing just outside of the hotel. A fence and tree are on the right. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards the Illinois Central railway station. A horse-drawn vehicle is on the left, and people are along the platform. Caption ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Elliott home, residence of Hames T. Elliot, at 7th Avenue. People are posing at the fence, and near the entrance. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across street towards the Case Residence. People are in a horse-drawn carriage in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the Columbia County Jail. People are on the sidewalk near the entrance. |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | Home of William Augustus Prentiss, built in 1836 and burned in 1845. Small two-story house. Four people are standing around the house. |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | People strolling on the midway and stopping to observe the booths and displays. In the background is a large building with flags. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | People standing in front of a house with a false storefront. A man is standing on the porch by a hand-pump. There is a woodpile in the yard behind a woman ... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | People seated in a small steamboat tied at a pier on a lake. A flag flies from the bow and there is a two-story frame house on the shore. This photograph m... |
| Date: | 07 20 1886 |
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| Description: | Group of people posing in the rail yard of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, & Omaha Railway. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | The Fairchild and Northwestern locomotive the "Gracie May," named for Gracie May Foster. Several people pose near the locomotive, including Robert Holmes a... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Tobacco field in foreground, with haystacks, barn with cupola, nad house with people standing in front of it. Other small wood farm buildings are in the ba... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Twenty-nine people (teacher with children) near board fence in front of a one room schoolhouse with outhouse. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Six people playing croquet in front of picket fence; frame house with shutters and latticework on porch in background. |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | View across unpaved road towards Randall Wilcox's home, with a fence along the sidewalk. A group of people are standing on the front porch. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the home of Samuel Rundell, with a large group of people assembled on the lawn in front of the house. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Habheger's Bowling Park at the North Fourth Street bridge. A group of people are standing on the bridge. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of several establishments along Main Street with people standing along the walkway in front of them. The signs on the buildings read: "R.L... |
| Date: | 03 15 1866 |
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| Description: | People gather the morning after a fire that destroyed Dixon's store as well as $100,000 worth of goods and eleven other places of business. The flames were... |
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