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| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Large group of people posed in, on and around the frame of a barn at a barn raising. A smaller building is in the background on the left. Cultivated fields... |
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| Description: | Barn raising, showing the stone foundation and timbers stacked in a pile in the foreground. A smaller building is on the left behind the tower support for ... |
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| Description: | Group of men working on a barn raising, showing some of the workers up on the frame securing the timbers, and other workers carrying more timbers into posi... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of the Thompson Tent Show. Two tents, a tall wagon, an automobile and a truck are set up in a field or park with houses and trees in ... |
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| Description: | Group portrait of an elderly woman and three small children, including an infant. The woman is seated in a chair with the infant on her lap. A boy stands o... |
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| Description: | Portrait of an elderly woman. She is seated in a chair holding flowers on her lap. Caladium in pots are arranged on both sides. In the background are ferns... |
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| Description: | A man and woman pose in a two seated, horse-drawn buggy, pulled by one horse. Behind them are trees in an orchard. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of three women and a girl in front of a painted backdrop. Two of the older women are seated, and the girl, wearing a large hair bow, is sta... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A schoolteacher sits behind her desk, on a raised platform, in a classroom. On her desk is a clock, inkwell, several books, hand bell and a hinged box. In ... |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length studio portrait of a nun standing in front of a painted backdrop. She is resting one hand on a small pedestal table. She is wearing a ... |
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| Description: | Formal full-length portrait of two men dressed in suits and hats. One man, wearing a necktie, is seated in a chair, and the other man, wearing a bow tie, i... |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a nun seated in a chair and three girls posed behind her. The nun is wearing a habit, wimple ... |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of three young women posed in front of a painted backdrop. The middle woman is seated and the others stand on each side behind ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a nun, Josefine Zander. She is wearing a habit and veil with a crucifix around her neck. Her ... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | View from grassy hill of uptown Cross Plains. The Catholic Church (St. Francis Xavier) is on the right, and farmhouses and other buildings are among fields... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | View down valley towards the back of the Lutheran Church and cemetery. Houses and barns are in the valley below, and more hills are in the far background. ... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of the Cross Plains American Legion basketball team, coaches and assistants in front of a painted backdrop. The players wear uniforms, the ... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Interior elevated view of St. Francis Xavier Church looking towards the altar. Note the American and religious flags and bunting decorating the pillars and... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Large group of students and teachers posed on a slope in front of St. Francis Xavier Catholic School for a group portrait. Many of the children and adults ... |
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| Description: | Display of Congoleum rugs in a store window. The rugs cover the walls and are rolled up and stacked on the floor and the left side wall. Two bouquets of fl... |
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