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Aerial View of Courthouse in Town

Date: 1930
Description: Aerial view of the town including the County Courthouse and the surrounding buildings.
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Ludlow Hotel

Date: 1955
Description: The Ludlow Hotel, built by Arabut Ludlow and razed in 1955.
Photograph

Octagon House

Date: 1930
Description: The Octagon House was built by General Francis Henry West. The photograph was taken late in 1930 and it shows the original "carpenter's lace" and other por...
Postcard

Opera House

Date: 
Description: Exterior view towards the front and left side of the Opera House. Caption reads: "Opera House, Monroe, Wis."
Photograph

Aerial View of Monroe

Date: 01 30 1949
Description: Aerial view of town, with a large building on a town square in the center. The edges of town are bordered by fields and farms.
Photograph

Prairie House

Date: 1925
Description: Clothes dry on a line behind the Prairie House Inn north of Monroe. The house has an exposed stone lower level and a porch wrapping around the two sides w...
Photograph

Moonrise over Southern Wisconsin

Date: 01 1981
Description: A ranch style farmhouse sits in the far distance beyond an empty field at night, with a full moon in a cloudless sky directly above.
Photograph

Harness Racing

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Description: Elevated view of four men and their horses harness racing down a road, with crowds of spectators on the sides, during a county fair in southwestern Wiscons...
Map or Atlas

Monroe, Wisconsin : Swiss Cheese Capital of the U.S.A.

Date: 1970
Description: This pictorial map shows illustrations of historical landmarks and events, some of which include the fairgrounds, churches, the courthouse, Turner Opera Ho...
Photograph

Threshing with a Steam Tractor

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Description: Stereograph of farmers using a thresher powered by a steam driven tractor. Church steeples of Monroe are on the horizon on the left. Hand-written on revers...

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