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Telephone Company Truck

Date: 05 20 1960
Description: Black Earth telephone company maintenance truck in front of the local office.
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Main Street View

Date: 1963
Description: View across main street of storefronts along the slope of a hill. At the top of the hill is a church with a steeple.
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Wrightstown Business District

Date: 1963
Description: View down middle of street of the main business district.
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City Hall

Date: 09 01 1962
Description: View from street of City Hall and the corner of Clark Street at sundown.
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Portage Canal

Date: 1962
Description: The Portage Canal between the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers, from the highway 51 crossing near the center of the city.
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Tree Growing in Old Commerical Building

Date: 05 19 1963
Description: A small tree growing through a window-opening of stone wall of a ruined old commercial building.
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Small Town Residence

Date: 09 25 1965
Description: View of a stairway leading up to a second-story residence. Several other commercial and private buildings are visible in the background down a hill.
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Mobil Gasoline Station Sign

Date: 05 19 1963
Description: A Mobil gasoline service station sign is in the foreground. Across the street is a blacksmith shop. On the left is a residential home next to the blacksmit...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 103-109

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Description: The style of reachings, temporal or spiritual, for transformation of the earth.

The chapel of Rockford Female Seminary, later Rockford College, 1889-1892...

Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 132-138

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Description: As though the tree inclined lacked discipline, pruned of its working part
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 154-160

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Description: Patience we learned and requiem
to rest the tense who die
For we forgot the brazen earth
in courtship of the sky
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 201-206

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Description: Even the slow, dry, hungry engines,
digging
what would be the best of times,
cannot help but leave behind them
a restlessness unchanging as bef...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 235-241

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Description: New land cut out by real imaginary lines
based in older spirit courses
lay and bedrock, flight of birds and pointed feet
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 267-280

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Description: Everybody who lived should get a gold watch
for endurance
and a chain for hanging
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 312-318

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Description: First one light is the truth and then another
but always it is shining on some counterpart
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 684-689

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Description: "I am the man with measuring pole on my shoulder. At the age of 21 years I was sawing log in the woods. Since then I have seen the old time way go and the ...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 713-718

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Description: No one will tell

No one would dare to put in print
the Secret Knowledge.

That word of mouth is frozen deep
and all Report is still
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 735-742

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Description: The disconnection sways,
rings out the moving targets racing with the mind in mathematic sound
that vanish in the distance and then appear again
a...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 750-757

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Description: Some towering hand-made genius had fighting words to sell
Photograph

Exterior View of West Bend Insurance Company Building

Date: 1961
Description: Exterior view of the rear corner of a building of the West Bend Insurance Company.

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