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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: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Outdoor class group portrait of the 5th and 6th grades of Muscoda Public School. An "X" marks Emma Schmitt (the future Mrs. Sherwin Gillett). Boys kneel in... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of the exterior of the Conrad Schmitt (Sherwin Gillett's future father-in-law) residence. There are two unidentified men on the porch posing in the sh... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard along shoreline of a group of people fishing at Rudolph Mill. Sherwin Gillett's wife's cousin, William Schmitt, is standing in the fo... |
| 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: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the Henry Elston Family of Muscoda, with a dog sitting in the foreground. According to US censuses they are from left to right: M... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the extended Elston family, including sons-in-law and grandchildren. |
| Date: | 06 30 1905 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a Muscoda Public School picnic. Emma Schmitt (later Mrs. Sherwin Gillett) is on the far left of the top row. The 1905 Wisconsin Census ha... |
| Date: | 06 1916 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of Conrad and Mary Schmitt's (Emma Gillett's parents) Golden Wedding Anniversary. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Group portrait on the lawn in front of a porch at the 25th Wedding Anniversary of Sherwin and Emma Gillett. Sherwin and Emma are standing on the left. Thei... |
| 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... |
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