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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: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Emma Schmitt (the future Mrs. Sherwin Gillett) and her sister Elena. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Muscoda High School Girls Basketball Team and their coach. The frame has the S. Gillett imprint, but ... |
| 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: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of outdoor group portrait of the 7th and 8th grade harmonica (mouth organ) class. Sherwin Gillett's son Lorin is identified with an "... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Sherwin Gillett's extended family. Top row: Gerald Baumeister, son of Sherwin's sister, Helen; Lorin Gillett, son of Sherwin; Rufus Gille... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Mrs. Laura Elston, wife of Henry Elston of Muscoda. |
| 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. |
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