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Vogt and Louise Schildgen

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Description: Vogt and Louise "Lulu" Schildgen posing in front of an orchard. Their son's name was Raymond Schildgen.
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Elevated View of Slabtown/Flora Fountain

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of Slabtown/Flora Fountain. The church in the lower right was built by the Latter Day Saints and later moved to Lancaster.
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Pleasant Ridge Log Church

Date: 1854
Description: Pleasant Ridge Log Church. Pleasant Ridge farmers built a United Brethren Church in 1884.
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Rephotographic Pair: Methodist Evangelical Church

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Description: A vintage view and a modern view of the Methodist Evangelical Church, presented as a pair.
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Rephotographic Pair: Public School

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Description: A vintage view and a modern view of the Public School, presented as a pair.
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Rephotographic Pair: Downtown Beetown

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Description: A vintage view and a modern view down Main Street, presented as a pair.
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Rephotographic Pair: Crossroads In Beetown

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Description: A vintage view and a modern view of downtown crossroads, presented as a pair. The vintage view includes signs advertising Texaco Perry Gas, Minnows and Wor...
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Military Artifacts

Date: 1962
Description: Display of military, perhaps Civil War, artifacts in Rollo Jamison's private museum of curiosities.
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Street Scene at Intersection

Date: 1913
Description: An intersection with townhouse on the left and a hotel on the right. There is a group of people on the porch of the townhouse and a horse and carriage park...
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Bloomington School District #2

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Description: View from crossroads of the one-room Bloomington School surrounded by trees. A small girl stands near the front door.
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Lower Beetown School

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Description: Lower Beetown clapboard schoolhouse with bell tower and path.
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Two Fences

Date: 05 16 1962
Description: Two metal fences with wooden posts in a pasture on a hill.
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Man Standing Outside of Building

Date: 05 07 1962
Description: Rollo Jamison stands outside a horizontal log building. A set of deer antlers are mounted on the eave above Mr. Jamison. There is a farm implement behind h...
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Beetown, Street Scene

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Description: View down a snow-covered street. There are shops on either side. "W.J. Birch - Cash Store" is on the left.
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Public School

Date: 1973
Description: Exterior of public school building, with a slide and trees.
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Wrecked and Abandoned Automobiles in Pasture

Date: 05 16 1962
Description: Wrecked and abandoned automobiles in a hidden rural hollow.
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Main Street

Date: 1921
Description: Main Street, where two young girls walk on the sidewalk, and a horse and carriage and two cars are parked in the street. There is a townhouse complex on th...
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First Beetown House

Date: 1925
Description: An early two-story frame house with a lean-to addition on the rear.
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Business Section

Date: 1929
Description: View across street of the business section. On the right a woman wearing an apron is standing with two children posing outside a hotel. The hotel offers ic...
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Beetown School District #7

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Description: A man stands behind a fence and in front of a clapboard schoolhouse and outhouse on a hill. There is a bell tower on the school building.

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