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Group Portrait of People Next to a House (Choir)

Date: 1913
Description: Photographic postcard of a group of men and women, two children and a baby. Two of the women and two of the men are holding hymnals. The correspondence on ...
Postcard

Community Baseball Game

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Description: Photographic postcard view of a small town baseball game in progress. Audience members are standing on the sideline and sitting on the grass. Horses and bu...
Postcard

Hillsboro Condensed Milk Company

Date: 1917
Description: View across railroad tracks towards the Hillsboro Condensed Milk Company factory, established 1914. Manufacturer of sterilized evaporated milk. The brick s...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Admiral Marc A. Mitscher Historic Marker

Date: 08 24 1958
Description: The dedication of Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, U.S. Navy historical marker in Hillsboro, the birthplace of Admiral Mitscher. Participants in the dedication an...
Photograph

Patriotic Holiday at Hillsboro School

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Description: Group portrait of class of young students holding American flags posed at the front of a classroom. Their teacher is standing on the far right, and desks a...
Photograph

General View of Hillsboro

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Description: Elevated view of the town of Hillsboro and Field Veterans Memorial Lake. There are buildings, houses, hills, and trees. The Hillsboro Mill is on the right ...
Photograph

Workers at Hillsboro Canning Plant

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Description: Interior view of the Hillsboro Canning Plant. A row of female and male workers are standing amongst the plant's corn processing machinery. The women have t...
Photograph

Santa Claus in Downtown Hillsboro

Date: 1955
Description: A man dressed as Santa Claus leans down from an open car to hand sacks of candy to a crowd of warmly-dressed children and parents. Santa's visit took place...
Photograph

Hillsboro Canning Plant

Date: 1959
Description: An official and workmen at Hillsboro Canning Plant examining a a large truckload of corn as it's dumped into a huge unloading platform. The individuals pic...
Photograph

School Banquet at Hotel Hillsboro

Date: 1930
Description: Group portrait of attendees of the Hillsboro High School's Junior-Senior Banquet at the Hillsboro Hotel. Attendees include students and their guests. The i...
Photograph

Downtown Hillsboro

Date: 1908
Description: View across unpaved street of people, horses and wagons, and businesses on one side of Water Avenue, the heart of Hillsboro's downtown and business distric...
Photograph

Flood Damage

Date: 08 06 1935
Description: Caption at bottom reads: "Destruction of H&N.E. RY Yards." Women in white dresses walk among the puddles along the flood-damaged tracks and trains of the H...
Photograph

Hillsboro Railroad

Date: 1908
Description: View down railroad tracks towards a locomotive at the Hillsboro Train Depot. The Hillsboro and Northeastern Railroad was built in 1903 and was a short trac...
Photograph

Hillsboro Railroad Pass

Date: 1903
Description: Railroad pass for the Hillsboro and North Eastern Railroad. A short track spanning from Hillsboro to Union Center, the Railroad was in operation from 1903 ...
Photograph

Kickapoo Oil Offices

Date: 1985
Description: Exterior view of the Kickapoo Oil Company's corporate offices. A carved wood totem pole stands in front of the building. Headquartered in Hillsboro, the co...
Photograph

Toots Station

Date: 1940
Description: Toots Sullivan (on left) and Emil Picha stand in front of the exterior of the Toot's Standard Gas Station at the intersection of Mill Street and Prairie Av...
Photograph

Perfect Oil Gas Station

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Description: View across street towards group of men standing on the sidewalk in front of the Perfect Oil Corporation in front of a Mobiloil truck. They are the station...
Photograph

Rudy Lein

Date: 1943
Description: Rudy Lein, owner of the Standard Oil Gas Station, standing next to an air pump outside of the station. He wears a Standard Service cap and a bowtie. Behind...
Photograph

Hillsboro Trolley

Date: 1911
Description: Composite photograph of a trolley traversing Hillsboro's Main Street. Hillsboro did not actually have a streetcar; the image of the trolley was taken from ...
Photograph

Mitscher Honored

Date: 07 12 1945
Description: Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher, wearing his uniform, is being presented with a flag of the State of Wisconsin by an unidentified man, who is also wearing a uni...

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