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Timber Construction Marks

Date: 10 15 1971
Description: Original timber construction marks on the first historic structure to be reconstructed at Old World Wisconsin, a Wisconsin Historical Society site.
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Russ Shepherd at McMiller Shooting Center

Date: 09 12 1981
Description: A man is kneeling and pulling an arrow out of a target, which has an illustration of a buck. The man is also holding a compound bow. Caption reads: "Russ S...
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C.L. Shearer

Date: 10 16 1967
Description: View across sidewalk towards a man sitting on a bench outside a storefront with a screen door that has a sign on it for Purity Bread. An American flag is h...
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"1865 Military Ball" at Old World Wisconsin

Date: 06 01 1989
Description: A costumed couple is dancing while four women in costumes are clapping their hands. Caption reads: "Dancers strutted their stuff at an '1865 Military Ball'...
Postcard

Turck-Schottler House at Old World Wisconsin

Date: 1950
Description: Color photographic postcard of the Turck-Schottler house at Old World Wisconsin near Eagle. It is an 1875 German blockbau building tradition that is listed...
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Ranger Home

Date: 1939
Description: A one and one half story, stone clad house with wide siding in the front gable is standing on a low rise surrounded by a lawn and mature trees. On the reve...
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Norway Spruce

Date: 1979
Description: A specimen of Picea abies, judged to be the largest of its type in Wisconsin, standing in Basswood Cemetery. Peony bushes are planted among the head...
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The Getto House After a Snowstorm

Date: 02 1922
Description: View from porch of a wood sided building behind a large pile of snow. A path has been shoveled on the wood walkway between the porch and the outer building...
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Swimmers at Jeffry's Mill

Date: 1933
Description: A diver is caught mid-air as another prepares to dive from a diving platform on the shore of the mill pond at Jeffry's Mill at Eagleville. A boy watches fr...
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Charles E. Curver House

Date: 1933
Description: Two unidentified girls pose seated on a large stone in a rock garden on the lawn of the Charles E. Curver home. There are small clumps of flowers in bloom ...
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Jeffry's Mill

Date: 01 22 1932
Description: Two men fish from a diving platform while a third fishes from the shore at Jeffry's Mill. The tall, wood frame mill building is in the background, with an ...
Map or Atlas

Eagle Township

Date: 1873
Description: Plat map of the township of Eagle (T5N, R17E) at a scale of 2 inches to one mile.
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Old Road

Date: 1933
Description: Four children walk away from the photographer down a rutted one lane road. On the reverse is written, "One of the oldest roads in [Richland] county, leadin...
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Children and Trough

Date: 1933
Description: Three boys and a girl stand behind a wood trough, hewn from a log. The boys wear bib overalls. There is a two-story house and an outbuilding in the backgro...
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Wisconsin River Scene

Date: 1933
Description: A view of the Wisconsin River captured by Gladys Hofseth, the teacher at Eagle Corners School, District No. 3, Township of Eagle. This scene is "not far fr...
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Two Members of the School Board

Date: 1933
Description: Lavaughn Cooper, in bib overalls and plaid jacket, and Bud Briggs, wearing knickers and a sweater, school board members of the Eagle Corners School, Distri...
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Gladys Hofseth

Date: 1933
Description: The teacher at Eagle Corners School, District No. 3, Township of Eagle, Gladys Hofseth, poses in front of the school. She is wearing a polka dot dress.
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Irene Mervin

Date: 1933
Description: Irene Mervin, a 12-year-old student at Eagle Corners School, poses with a baseball bat in front of a large tree. On the reverse of the photograph is writte...
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School Picnic

Date: 05 14 1931
Description: Students from the Eagle Corners School, District No. 3, Township of Eagle, roast marshmallows over a fire at Barett's Hill (spelled Barrett's on the revers...
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Cheese Factory

Date: 1920
Description: View across dirt road of two men wearing overalls standing outside a rural cheese factory. There is a large, low wooden tub at the driveway entrance, and a...

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