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Monthly Market Fair

Date: 1908
Description: Elevated view of farmer's wagons, teams, and pedestrian traffic crowd Princeton's main street for the monthly market fair. Some snow is on the ground and a...
Photograph

Flying School

Date: 05 1917
Description: A ground school conducted by Princeton University for students who wished to enlist in the Army Air Service. During World War I most American aviators were...
Photograph

Woman Reading on Screened Porch

Date: 06 1923
Description: Miss Marilla Zearing reading a newspaper on a rocking chair in the screened porch of her home. The photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agric...
Map or Atlas

Princeton, Wisconsin, Looking North

Date: 1892
Description: Bird's-eye map of Princeton, with an inset of the Residence of F.T. Yahr. Fox River loops to left of center, with one bridge; thirty-six businesses, reside...
Photograph

St. Mary's Church

Date: 1949
Description: View of the ruins of St. Mary's Church.
Postcard

Princeton Brewery

Date: 1900
Description: View across water toward the Princeton brewery on a bend in the Fox River. Caption reads: "A Bend in the Historic Fox at Princeton, Wis."
Postcard

Draw Bridge

Date: 1905
Description: View down unpaved road towards a drawbridge in Princeton. There is a hotel on the right. Caption reads: "Draw Bridge at Princeton, Wis."
Photograph

Feeding Hogs

Date: 07 1923
Description: A farmer is standing on a wagon shoveling ear corn to hogs in a nearby pen.
Photograph

Clam Fishing

Date: 1917
Description: Elevated view of six men on the shore of a river, with piles of clam shells inside loose wooden fences near a pile of firewood and an axe. The firewood may...
Photograph

Princeton Campus Building

Date: 1908
Description: View of male students sitting on the entrance steps of a Princeton University campus building. The door and windows are arched and reflect a Collegiate Got...
Photograph

Kitchen Sink

Date: 06 1923
Description: A sink standing against a wall inside a farmhouse kitchen. A stove is to the right of the sink, and a garbage bin stands beneath it.
Photograph

Kitchen Cabinet and Table

Date: 06 1923
Description: A table with built-in cabinets and shelf space standing in the middle of a farmhouse kitchen, next to a wooden chair to the left and a stove and ovens to t...
Photograph

Farmhouse Arbor

Date: 07 1923
Description: Flowers and other plants growing on and around an arbor outside the Zearing farmhouse.
Photograph

Sleeping Porch

Date: 1925
Description: Four beds line either side of the sleeping porch at the farmhouse of J.E. Joyce. A telephone is hanging on the wall and striped curtains are covering the o...
Photograph

Woman in Farmhouse Kitchen

Date: 06 1923
Description: Miss Zearing using a grinder to make bread crumbs inside a farmhouse kitchen.
Photograph

Baker's Dozen Bread Club

Date: 07 1923
Description: Miss Marilla Zearling demonstrating a bread-making technique to members of the Baker's Dozen Bread Club.
Photograph

Margaret Monier Canning

Date: 06 1923
Description: Margaret Monier using a pressure cooker while canning in the home of Miss Marilla Zearing. Cans of produce are cooling on wire racks on the counter and in ...
Photograph

Knife Sharpener

Date: 1923
Description: A woman is using a knife sharpener mounted on a kitchen counter to sharpen a blade.
Photograph

Woman Using Fruit Press

Date: 06 1923
Description: A woman using a Dilver (fruit press) to juice fruit into a metal bowl on a tabletop.
Photograph

Woman Using Pressure Kettle

Date: 06 1923
Description: Miss Larson using a pressure kettle to cook on a wood-burning stove in a farmhouse kitchen.

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