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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Exterior of ice cream parlor with a horse-drawn wagon parked on the right with sheds behind. Barrels are stacked on the porch. Signs above the porch read: ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View towards railroad station with a few passengers on the platform awaiting the arrival of the train. The locomotive is billowing smoke. Two horses stand ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Woman holding flowers posing on the back of an Avery gasoline tractor. |
| Date: | 05 10 1928 |
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| Description: | The Lutheran Church and buildings, seen from Lutheran Church Hill. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of multiple buildings in Cross Plains from Lutheran Church Hill. Many roads and fences cross the fields. Wooded hills are in the background. ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Main Street view in the winter with snow on the ground. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | View from hill of uptown Cross Plains with the Catholic Church (St. Francis Xavier) and farmhouses. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Roller Mill with a covered loading dock. A sign on the end of the building at the roof line reads: "Roller Mill." Trees and power pole... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Millpond with several buildings and horses in the middle ground, and more buildings in the background. Trees are visible throughout. Text at lower left rea... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the exterior of a Roman Catholic school built of stone with many windows. Sidewalks run along two sides. Trees can be seen behind and on the right.... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of several Cross Plains buildings across a millpond. There is a bell mounted on a metal tower near the shoreline. Caption reads: "Looking North From M... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of a young dark-haired women standing in a field of flowers before a sign attached to a telephone pole. The sign reads: "Choice Honey For ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of three girls dressed as Red Cross nurses and a boy with a bandage on his head. One girl holds a U.S. flag. |
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| Description: | A large hog in a farmyard being admired by five men standing behind him. |
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| Description: | A man poses on a bluff overlooking a farm in the valley below. |
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| Description: | Francis Rodenschmidt Doyle and an unidentified woman pose together surrounded by sumac foliage. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A civics class and teacher are displaying a portrait of President Woodrow Wilson. They are possibly gathered in the schoolyard. |
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| Description: | A farmer in overalls and hat stands in a pasture next to a Holstein cow. He holds a bucket and is gripping one of the cow's horns. More cows are grouped in... |
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| Description: | Five children pose in a row according to height in front of a porch. Their names are Theo Saeman Cavanaugh, Laura Saeman Gronenthal, Louis C. Saeman, Greg ... |
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