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Students Conducting Scientific Research

Date: 1900
Description: Downer College students working in a laboratory in which a human skeleton, a frog, a bat and stuffed birds are displayed.
Photograph

Henry Mathews

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Description: Portrait of Henry Mathews, 1866-1941, an early African American resident, holding the tools of his trade in front of a painted backdrop. He was a stone mas...
Photograph

Downer College

Date: 1890
Description: View of Downer College. Snow is on the ground.
Postcard

Main Street Fox Lake

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Description: View of Main Street from under the canopy of a tree in the spring or summer. Caption reads: "North Side Main Street Looking West." Across the unpaved stree...
Postcard

Mill Street, Fox Lake

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Description: View of an intersection of dirt roads, with a large building, possibly an inn or apartment building on the right corner. A carriage or car is parked near t...
Postcard

Peerless Hotel (Downer College)

Date: 1905
Description: View across lawn, planted with trees, towards the hotel. There are several people either standing or sitting among the trees. Caption reads: "Peerless Hote...
Photograph

Building at Fox Lake, Illinois

Date: 1896
Description: A building, probably a residence, at Fox Lake, Illinois.
Map or Atlas

Map of Fox Lake Area, Dodge County, Wisconsin

Date: 1930
Description: This manuscript map, likely drawn in the 1930s, shows Fox Lake, in Dodge County, Wisconsin, and the roads and resorts in the vicinity.
Photograph

Dorm at Downer College

Date: 1895
Description: Interior of a student's room at Downer (women's) College. Two banjos rest on the chaise in front of the window.
Postcard

Miller & Jones Hardware Store

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Description: View of the storefront of Miller & Jones Hardware, with two men standing at the entrance. Horses and carts are parked in the street. A Masonic symbol is in...
Postcard

Elmwood Island at Fox Lake

Date: 1913
Description: View across water towards Elmwood Island, with lakeside homes. Caption reads: "Elmwood Island at Fox Lake, Wis."
Postcard

Depot at Fox Lake

Date: 1913
Description: View across railroad tracks towards the railroad depot, with several passengers standing on the platform. An automobile is parked at the curb. Caption read...
Postcard

R.H. Runge; General Merchandise

Date: 1919
Description: Exterior view of R.H. Runge's General Merchandise store. A woman and two men are standing near the entrance. Penciled-in note on reverse reads: "Burned ...
Postcard

Army Unit Marching

Date: 1909
Description: View across road and grass towards a group of soldiers marching through a Fox Lake neighborhood.
Photograph

Ellen Clara Sabin

Date: 12 1893
Description: Portrait of Ellen Clara Sabin, while she was president of Downer College. It is signed: "Affectionately yours, Ella C. Sabin. Xmas, 1893."
Photograph

Ellen Clara Sabin

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Description: Portrait of Ellen Clara Sabin, around the time she became president of Downer College.

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