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Street Corner

Date: 07 05 1965
Description: Street corner with gasoline station, 7-Up sign in front of restaurant next door, and several storefronts across the street.
Photograph

Backlit Trees and House

Date: 08 11 1960
Description: Exterior of a house surrounded by backlit trees.
Photograph

Robert Lamp House

Date: 1966
Description: The Robert Lamp house at 22 North Butler Street, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1902.
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House near Canal

Date: 1962
Description: A view of a house beside the canal, from the south side.
Photograph

House on East Main Street

Date: 1963
Description: A house with a porch. An example of mid-nineteenth century architecture at 632 East Main Street.
Photograph

Church and School

Date: 05 13 1961
Description: Exterior of residence, parochial school, and church. There is a mailbox in the foreground.
Photograph

New Housing Development

Date: 07 03 1960
Description: View down curving sidewalk of new housing development with a main street of dirt, and box-like, one-story homes.
Photograph

Cottage Community

Date: 1971
Description: A cottage and trailer house community along a river. A Schlitz beer advertising is nailed to a tree and reads, "Move up to Quality / Schlitz / The Beer Tha...
Photograph

New Housing Development

Date: 07 03 1960
Description: View looking uphill toward a new housing development. The street in the foreground is still under construction.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 85-90

Date: 
Description: 200 years this tree grew here and so did I
We were raised here and brought up young ones
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 387-393

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Description: Hang hope still higher, let it ring
Spend every care this day

for hope itself must decorate the dream
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 428-435

Date: 
Description: Face up to the oncoming interest due
when it's blushing right there as a shadow
and the fact is a whistle away
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 514-521

Date: 
Description: Put aside anything so futile

All that fermented time
spent and blackened, much obscured,
is now restored with cheese and wine
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 554-561

Date: 
Description: The Winter was a legacy of crusted weights
now melted with the Passing of the Snow
so closed and callous differences can soften
to the hope for co...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 633-639

Date: 
Description: Rooms remembered for what they led to
What they shut out and how they silent sang
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 640-647

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Description: You who were spared I talked with night but last
about the velvet years
I remember from the window
The one that is blown is the one gone wild
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 743-749

Date: 
Description: Far out

The last report on peace to reach us here
was neither a promise nor easy Faith

but the hardest of all, the waiting for never
an...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 776-783

Date: 
Description: That instinct path to the waiting door
is a mile of running
beyond the last ounce of bursting heart
Photograph

Snow Melting from the Roof

Date: 05 10 1960
Description: Old house with melting snow dripping from the roof.
Photograph

Houses Downtown

Date: 1965
Description: View down sidewalk with the porches of duplex residential houses on the left in the downtown area.

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