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| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Bird's-eye View of Ripon, Wis." View from a tall building over the Public Square with buildings and dwellings of the town spreading o... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "The Dam, Ripon, Wis." Water spills over the Ripon Dam, on Silver Creek, with the Ripon Pond in the background. Dwellings and a buildi... |
| Date: | 07 25 1908 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Public Square." View from a tall building over the Public Square with buildings and dwellings of the town spreading out to the horizo... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "North Primary School." A two-story clapboard schoolhouse with a basement has students gathered on the steps to the entrance. The scho... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Ceresco High School, Ripon, Wis." A two-story schoolhouse with basement windows along the foundation, and attic space. The school ha... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "City Hall, Ripon, Wis." View across public square towards a brick building with ornate exterior decorations and a bell tower with a b... |
| Date: | 08 27 1909 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a view across a street with a building with signs that read: "Weigle Photographer" and "Ground Floor Gallery". The building is Tud... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Burning of the Ripon Opera House, Ripon Wis." A dramatic scene at night, with flames consuming an Opera House which is silhouetted ag... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Tall Tale postcard of the City Hall with an airplane added on the right. Text reads: "Ripon, Wis." The City Hall is a brick building with ornate exterior d... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Text at foot reads: "Birthplace of the Republican Party, Ripon, Wis." Handwritten at foot of image: "First Meeting Held Here-March 20th, 1854. Ripon, Wis."... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Hotel Engelbright and Masonic Temple, Ripon, Wis." The Hotel and Temple stand together on the right side of an unpaved street. There ... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Engelbright Hotel, Ripon, Wis." The Hotel stands on an unpaved street with a sidewalk in front. A horse and buggy are on the right. T... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Several people, holding umbrellas, are riding in a car decorated with many tissue paper pom poms for a parade. There are miniature horse models on the hood... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A crowd of adults and children are standing in a line with American Flags on a brick street. There is a large, three-story brick building on the right. In ... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Public Library, Ripon, Wis." A one-story brick and stone building with a basement level surrounded by sidewalks. A women is walking a... |
| Date: | 06 15 1916 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "G.A.R. Encampment. June 14-16, 1916. Ripon, Wis." An arched monument honoring the Grand Army of the Republic, crowned with the Seal o... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on the reverse reads: "The Famous Little White School House, at Ripon, Wisconsin. Birthplace of the Republican Party in 1854." Surrounded by dwellings... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "Stately Republican House Restaurant...at Ripon, Wisconsin, where in 1954, the Republican Party was Born in the 'little White School... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Home of the Fourierites, Ripon, Wis. Established May 27, 1844 by followers of Charles Fourier in Ceresco Valley, now a part of Ripon.... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Lutheran Church, Ripon, Wis." Front view of a brick church with an arched entrance, steps and a steeple with a clock. A sidewalk runs... |
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