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| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin State Capitol as it appeared after the completion of the dome in 1869. At that time only the dome and the upper stories can be seen above the... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph. Located on Oneida Street, the opera house is three stories tall, and located across the street from a pharmacy (the Rx sign is hanging above t... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute), a large stone building five stories high with a porthole windo... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Built in 1840 by Lemuel Hull. William Singer was the mason. The basement was made by lowering the hill. There were originally only two stories. First ... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph. Located on Oneida Street, the opera house is three stories tall, and located across the street from a pharmacy (the Rx sign is hanging above t... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View of the Reeve residence on the corner of Lawrence and Onieda Streets. |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Quarter plate ambrotype of a brick structure, possibly in Green Bay, Wisconsin, housing the office of J.S. Baker, Land Agent. The building is three stories... |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
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| Reference Number: | 79251 |
| Date: | 06 30 1899 |
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| Description: | View of the horse barn. A man is driving a horse and buggy at the College of Agriculture on the University of Wisconsin campus. Two horses on standing on t... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | The Vilas Hotel located at the corner of Monona Avenue at the west end of the first block of East Main Street. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Engraving of the five-story tall mill erected at the outlet of the Yahara Creek by Leonard J. Farwell. This engraving appears in Statistics of Dane County,... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Zeeland Mills, built in 1862 by John Verstegen. The flour mill was 36' x 50', four stories and had "two runs of stone." It was still operating in 1911. |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of an elevated view of the Vilas House hotel, East Main Street at Monona Avenue. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | View across river of the Model Roller Mills, with the date 1884, with a railroad trestle is on the left. The mill wheel is turning. |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Madison looking southeast across Lake Monona from the Capitol featuring the Vilas House hotel. |
| Community: | Sturgeon Bay |
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| County: | Door |
| Historic Name: | Music Store |
| Reference Number: | 50191 |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | It was in this shop that Christopher Sholes, inventor of the typewriter, did much of his work on various inventions. This photograph may be as early as th... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Stereograph through a Ferris wheel at the Chicago World's Fair. The sensation of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago was the Ferris wheel, the... |
| A Wisconsin Civil War Story |
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| On the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, the 2nd Wisconsin Infantry struggles to escape from encroaching Confederates |
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