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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Paving block cutters at work at the the Montello Granite Company. Two men holding large hammers are posing underneath a tarp which is shading large pieces ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of lake, most likely Buffalo Lake, from Montello. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | View from street towards men standing in front of bank at the corner of Main Street. A horse-drawn vehicle is in the foreground on the left. Signs along th... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Historical marker at the site of John Muir's boyhood home, located in the John Muir Memorial Park near Montello. A woman stands next to the marker, and the... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | View of Fountain Lake (officially known as Ennis Lake), John Muir's boyhood home near Montello. The area is now a 125-acre State Natural Area. Fountain Lak... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | View of Fountain Lake (officially known as Ennis Lake), John Muir's boyhood home near Montello. The area is now a 125-acre State Natural Area. Fountain Lak... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | View of Fountain Lake (officially known as Ennis Lake), John Muir's boyhood home near Montello. The area is now a 125-acre State Natural Area. Fountain Lak... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the south. The Fox River is in the foreground with the dam just visible in the lower right. The lock is seen in the center; the Montello... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Three rural mail carriers pose with their horses and buggies in front of the Montello Post Office. Postmaster (Dr.) Edward A. Bass stands in the backgroun... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a group of men and boys gathered for a meal in a tent. There are benches along the sides of the table. One man sits on a wooden bo... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A workman poses beside a belt-driven polisher inside a shed at the Montello granite quarry. Two other men relax in the background near an open door where n... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two men stand on a ledge in the granite quarry in Montello. Three other men stand below. The side of the quarry rises up above the group in the background.... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the Montello granite quarry grounds shows piles of granite paving blocks. In the background, a team of horses pulls a wagon under an elevated narro... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking southeast at a cut face of the granite quarry. A worker stands on a ledge on the right. There are ropes and ladders in the quarry. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View over quarry towards two men in suits sitting at the top edge of the cut face of the granite quarry. In the background is a house at the top of the hil... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Lucy Kaufmann poses in an open, wooded area holding a hoe. She is wearing a tattered hat; her skirt and blouse are torn. There are two sheds and woodpiles ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Six women and girls are reflected in the water as they model their swimming costumes on the beach. Another woman observes from behind. The caption reads: ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across a field and Montello Lake. Buildings on the distant shore, seen through trees on the near shoreline, are the tower of the Montello House Hotel,... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view looking west down Barstow (now East Montello) Street. Trees shade the houses at right. The two-story brick home of Frank Dodge ... |
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