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Filter: COLLECTION_NAME of Sherwin H. Gillett papers and photographs, 1880s-1964 (bulk 1910-1961)
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| Date: | 10 24 1930 |
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| Description: | Celebrating the first "Cheese Day" with a parade. A group of spectators gather on the sidewalk near a truck displaying a banner and stove in the back. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Two men and a child look at a barn that has collapsed, possibily due to a windstorm or tornado. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | The back lot of a row of factories. Alongside the buildings, there are piles of raw materials, lumber slabs, carts, and a parked car. |
| Date: | 10 1927 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline of construction of the New Free bridge. Men work on and below the wooden bridge, which is partially constructed. A crane is on the bri... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of metal bridge spanning the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 10 24 1930 |
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| Description: | Man sitting in driver's seat of a Skelly Truck promoting itself with banners and streamers. In the background on the right is a church. |
| Date: | 10 24 1930 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of children in costume posed on the back of a truck decorated with streamers for the Cheese Day Parade. Some of the children hold handwritte... |
| Date: | 10 24 1930 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of children posed on flatbed truck decorated with streamers as a float for Cheese Day. A sign reads: "Cheese is King," and a boy dressed as ... |
| Date: | 10 24 1930 |
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| Description: | Group of people posing among round wood cheese boxes on a flatbed truck decorated as a float in the Cheese Day Parade. One person holds a sign that says: "... |
| Date: | 10 24 1930 |
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| Description: | A line of clowns and assorted pantomime animals dressed up for Cheese Day. The animals include; a horse, a woodchuck, a bear, a giraffe and an elephant. A ... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of a class featuring Lorin Gillett (son of Sherwin Gilett), and their teacher sitting on the steps in front of the double door of wh... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | View of the Rundolph Mill and dam near Muscoda. A man stands near the far side of the bridge on the left. The banks of the river are rocky cliffs, and a st... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from road of the Gillette photography studio. Lorin is standing and posing next to the sign. An upside down sign is resting in the tall grass... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | View of the Wisconsin River through trees near Muscoda. A large barn is on the far side of the river. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Wisconsin River from Bogus Bluff. There is a tree in the foreground and sandbars in the river. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of Sherwin Gillett's brothers-in-law. They are: Charles, Alfred, Louis, Gustav, Otto and Herbert. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the six Schmitt brothers, Sherwin Gillett's brothers-in-law. In birth order they are: Charles (b. 1868), Alfred (b. 1870), Louis ... |
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