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| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Delavan with inset of the State Institute for Deaf and Dumb. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Front view of the library. Caption reads: "Aram Public Library, Delavan Wis." |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View of the J.M. Bailey Jr. Marble Works storefront. From the "Combination Atlas-Map of Walworth Co." Chicago. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the Highland Hotel on Delavan Lake. Caption reads: "The Highland hotel, Delavan lake, Delavan, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the high school. Caption reads: "High School Delavan Wis." |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Chevrolet dealership in Delavan in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall. During the 1860s and 1870s the building was known as the... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Engraved print of the institute. The building has dome, and at the top is a wind vane. Caption reads: "Wisconsin Institute for the Deaf & Dumb." |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of the building and the grounds. On the top of the dome is a wind vane. Pedestrians, an equestrian, and a man in a horse-drawn carriage are i... |
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| Description: | Engraved view of the building with several pedestrians and a horse-drawn carriage in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Exterior of library with unfinished landscaping. Houses are further down the street on the left. A sign attached to a tree reads: "S Fourth St." Caption re... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Distant view of the mill, with a stream leading to it, and a road paralleling the stream on the right. Caption reads: "The Old Mill, Delavan, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a pond, a stream, and a lake, with a road dividing the pond and stream from the lake. Industrial buildings and a smokestack are in the bac... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View of a sign to the cemetery that reads: "Old Settler's Cemetery 1837-1875, Burial Place of Samuel * Henry Phoenix, Founders of Delavan 1836." The cemete... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a broad downtown street. Caption reads: "Walworth Avenue, Delavan, Wis." |
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| Description: | Exterior of the property of the Wisconsin Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, with circle drive and people walking the grounds. |
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| Description: | Engraving of Wisconsin Institute for Deaf and Dumb. A man in a horse-drawn carriage and another rider on horseback travel along the street in the foregroun... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man in a buggy stops to water his horse at an old trough in the middle of the road. There is a handbill on a utility pole on the left. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | This old hotel was known variously as the Park, Brick, or Circus hotel and dates from the 1870s. The large brick structure has a front gable with fancy shi... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the chapel at the Wisconsin School for the Deaf. Rows of empty, bow back chairs face a stage, where more chairs are set up under bunting a... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the main building at the Wisconsin School for the Deaf. The building is surrounded by a lawn and a grove of trees. |
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