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| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Court House Park from Dr. Snyder's window. Pedestrians are on the sidewalk. A monument is in the park on the right. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Exterior view across field of mill and store at Black Hawk. There are feed sacks on the porch of the mill, and a horse is on the far right. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a storefront with rolls of wire and barbed wire fencing materials on the front porch. The store was formerly the post office for Dwyer. A ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Wade House. The Wade House, one of the earliest stagecoach inns in Wisconsin, was built between 1847 and 1851 by Sylvanus Wade. It became... |
| Date: | 08 1925 |
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| Description: | A view of the front of the Empire House Hotel, showing the porch and balcony. There are many wicker chairs on the porch, and there is an automobile parked ... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View from across road of the Hile House. This is where the actress and Confederate spy Belle Boyd died on June 11, 1900, in the front room, over the office... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View acorss road of the home of Stephen Bell, which served as the last post office at King's Corners in the Town of Sumpter. Bell was the last postmaster h... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Ruggles Tavern from yard. There is a long, screened-in porch along the front of the L-shaped building. A stone mounting block is at the c... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | View up dirt road or track towards a two-story L-shaped frame house with a fence along the front. The right end of the house has a roof suspended over the ... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | A group of adults, including Harry E. Cole (center), stand behind a fence. A sign on the fence reads, "YOU CAN'T PLAY IN OUR BACK YARD." |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | The view from Gibraltar Rock across farm fields and woods. There are corn shocks in several of the fields. A farm house and outbuildings stand near a pond... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | A double exposure of a landscape featuring a very large tree and farm houses superimposed on an image of buildings and crowds at the Sauk County Fairground... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | View from gate of the "Ruggles Place" between Mineral Point and Arena. The house has two large chimneys; stone pillars support ironwork gates at the entran... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A view of the front of large house with an open front porch, a front yard with mature trees, and a field beyond. The house features six over six window sas... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A side view from road of large brick house with an open front porch, surrounded by trees. There is a a rear wing and attached garage or shed. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | The old toll house. The house is surrounded by a sagging wire fence, and there are two pumps in the overgrown yard. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The Stone Barn Tavern, located about three miles west of Milton. The three cottonwood trees in front of the tavern were brought from Vermont. There are sev... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Clothes dry on a line behind the Prairie House Inn north of Monroe. The house has an exposed stone lower level and a porch wrapping around the two sides w... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A stone house with a small front porch and balcony stands beside another stone building on the left. There are milk cans and chickens in front of the house... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A deteriorating wooden structure with two gables on the front, identified as the Red Tavern between Kilbourn and Mauston, built in 1848. |
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