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Girl with Egg Tree

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: Bonnetted girl gazes at egg tree.
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Mordecai Kelly Log Cabin

Date: 1945
Description: Exterior of the Mordecai Kelly log cabin, built by Mordecai himself in the late 1840's. The article attached to the photograph reads: "The aging tree stand...
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Fort Winnebago

Date: 1955
Description: View of the surgeon's quarters at Fort Winnebago.
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Children at Milwaukee County Zoo

Date: 10 15 1955
Description: Children leaning against a fence at the fifth adoptive birthday party for Samson and Sambo at the Washington Park Zoo. Several of the children are drinking...
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Merrimac Ferry

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Description: Slightly elevated view through trees from shoreline of the Merrimac ferry with automobiles aboard. A sign on the ferry says: "Colsac".
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Man Sitting on a Tree Trunk

Date: 1957
Description: Louis Pierron, age 89, sitting on the trunk of a large elm tree which had recently been cut down at Green Bay Avenue and West Good Hope Road.
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Summer Construction

Date: 08 17 1958
Description: Building for a new “supermarket” food and household necessities store, under construction on the outskirts of the Milwaukee area. In the background is a ba...
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Elderly Couple Smelling Herbs

Date: 04 18 1945
Description: Elderly couple standing in a room with dried herbs hanging from the rafters, and bottles on a shelf in the background. The man is smelling dried herbs in a...
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Loading the Boat

Date: 08 1928
Description: Men use a derrick to lift a racing yacht from its trailer, obscured by the derrick's winch, onto the car on the tracks leading to Geneva Lake. The boat was...
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Working on the Boat

Date: 08 1928
Description: Members of the crew work on the bottom of a class C boat before the Inland Lake Yachting Association Regatta. The Lake Geneva Yacht Club clubhouse is in th...
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Kelly Kids at Gimbels

Date: 1951
Description: A group of children meeting Santa at Gimbels. Decorated Christmas trees are next to his chair.
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Skyhigh Statue

Date: 1950
Description: Monument to the Soldiers and Sailors of the Civil War in a Darlington, Wisconsin. The base of the monument is 12 feet square and 56 feet high, constructed ...
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Barree Coulee from St. Joseph's Ridge

Date: 1953
Description: Elevated view along a hillside into a valley, with forests, buildings, and crop fields. Caption reads: "Barree Coulee from St. Joseph's Ridge, La Crosse Co...
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Dazzling Display

Date: 05 1955
Description: Apple blossoms in an orchard in the spring. Stacked logs are in the foreground.
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Starkness Offshore

Date: 1954
Description: Wood from a dead tree on the Lake Wisconsin shoreline protruding from the water, and silhouetted against the reflection of a dramatic sky. The far shore is...

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