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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Color view of the State Street and Lake Street intersection, with the Co-op book store, the Rennebohm Drug Store and the Wisconsin State Capitol at the end... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Camel rides at the Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo) for children, given free by Zor Temple Camel Patrol on Sunday afternoons during the summer. A number of... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Colorful locomotive pulling several cars full of children at the Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo). Although referred to as the "Kiddie Train," the caption ... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Color postcard of an exterior view of the Wisconsin State Historical Society Building, now the headquarters of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Students a... |
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| Description: | Color postcard of an exterior view of the Wisconsin State Historical Society Building, now the headquarters of the Wisconsin Historical Society. In the for... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of the upper campus viewed from the State Street entrance of the State Historical Library, now the headquarters building of the Wisco... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of view down the front sidewalk of the main entrance of the State Historical Library, now the headquarters building of the Wisconsin ... |
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| Description: | Color postcard of a Norwegian building at Little Norway. Built in Norway by the Norwegian Government, for the Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. |
| Date: | 07 20 1950 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a scene at Little Norway. A log building stands to the left and the chassis of a wagon to the right. Text below reads: "Scene at L... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view down sidewalk in a central business district. In the foreground on the left horses and wagons are hitched up at the curb. A smal... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of a family posed on a hill in front of a farm, with farmhouse, outbuildings, and a windmill. The family is gathered on a hill i... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of troops marching on the road across the railroad tracks past the depot. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the aftermath of a train wreck. Survivors and onlookers are gathered on and around the railroad tracks. Caption reads: "Wreck... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view looking down center of dirt highway, with a car approaching. There is a gas station on the right just past a sign reading "Cross... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street, a dirt road with horses and buggies and a wooden walkway. There is a brick building in the left foreground, with houses further down... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards the train station of Dane, with three women and two men standing on the platform. Two sets of tracks stretch to the hor... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street from between wooden sidewalk on the left, and the unpaved street on the right. Further down are commercial buildings lining both side... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View down sidewalk along unpaved, snow-covered Main Street. Men are standing on the sidewalk, and near them is a man standing on a horse-drawn delivery sle... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view from street of the brick public school, with bell tower. Caption reads: "Public School, De Forest, Wis." |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View down center of unpaved Commerce Street with buildings along a sidewalk on the right, and a building in the distance. Caption reads: "Commerce Street, ... |
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