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Car Ferry

Date: 1920
Description: The Cassville Ferry with three cars and passengers, crossing the Mississippi River from Cassville to Turkey River, Iowa.
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Church in Cassville

Date: 1930
Description: Winter scene overlooking town, showing Baptist church in background.
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Cassville Brewery

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of the brewery dwarfed by the overhead bluffs. The brewery was built by William Schmitz. George Scheibl ran the brewery from 1899 until his d...
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Denniston House

Date: 1900
Description: Denniston House, P.J. Schnorrenberg, proprietor. View across railroad tracks of the hotel entrance with porch. A man and three women are standing on the po...
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Denniston House

Date: 1932
Description: The Denniston House was built in 1836 in anticipation that the State Capitol would be located in Cassville, and housing for the legislators would be needed...
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Denniston House Hotel

Date: 1945
Description: The hotel has a sign above the porch that reads: "Old Denniston House".
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Denniston House

Date: 1900
Description: The Denniston House hotel, which was erected in 1836 with a view to making it the territorial capitol of Wisconsin, in the event Cassville should be chosen...
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Denniston House Hotel

Date: 1925
Description: View across railroad tracks towards the Denniston House Hotel.
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Train Depot

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Description: Train Depot, Adams Express Company. Hills are in the background.
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Barn on the Nelson Dewey Farm

Date: 1932
Description: View towards a barn, with a railroad bridge in the foreground.
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House in Cassville

Date: 1950
Description: Single-story house with a wrap-around porch and a yard. There is a larger building on the right, and a hill is in the background.
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John Geiger House

Date: 1895
Description: Geiger house, residence of John Geiger. His son, Ferdinand A. Geiger, was a Federal District Judge in Milwaukee from 1912 through the 1930s.
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Habermann Hotel and Buffet

Date: 1900
Description: View across dirt road of two businesses. On the left is a two-story brick building with large windows which are painted with signs that say: "Habermann Buf...
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Cassville Residential Street

Date: 1908
Description: Snow-covered residential street with houses on each side.
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Wooded Cassville Park

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Description: Park with tree-lined lane. Caption reads: "Scene in Riverside Park".
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Nelson Dewey State Park

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Description: Elevated view from bluff of a house in Cassville surrounded by bluffs, trees and farmland. Railroad tracks run between the crops and the trees, and the Mis...
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Stonefield Village

Date: 1965
Description: Rear view of a couple sitting in a horse-drawn buggy which is driving through a covered bridge at Stonefield Village. Buildings and trees are in the distan...
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Cassville from the Park

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Description: Caption reads: "View from the park". View down dirt road, with a large deciduous tree on the left side of the road, and a cornfield on the right. In the di...
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Threshing Scene

Date: 1905
Description: View across field of threshing scene, with steam-powered threshing machine and horse-drawn wagons. A large group of workers pose with men in suits. On the ...
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Family and Wagon

Date: 1900
Description: A family of seven, including a baby, posing on and around a wagon with bales of hay in rocky terrain. There are steep hills behind them.

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