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Saint Norbert House

Date: 1957
Description: A sketch of a log cabin with dormer windows above. Text on reverse reads: "St. Norbert House. The first Catholic Church in Dane County. In 1846 Father Adel...
Photograph

Wrecked Chevrolet

Date: 10 23 1937
Description: Close-up of damaged Chevrolet in a ditch next to Highway 12 near Highway KP & Roxbury, looking north, with a farmstead in the background.
Historical Object

Roxbury Tavern Server's Ticket

Date: 
Description: Unused server's ticket from the Roxbury Tavern. There is a drawing of the building in the upper right of the ticket.
Photograph

Rephotographic Pair: Roxbury Businesses

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Description: A vintage view and a modern view of a commercial building, presented as a pair. The vintage view shows the Roxbury general store and automotive shop. The m...
Photograph

Catholic Church

Date: 1924
Description: Side view of the Catholic Church from the bottom of a low hill. Two more buildings are on the left and right behind the church. Bare trees are in the lawn ...
Photograph

Roxbury Parochial School

Date: 1924
Description: The parochial school with a statue of St. Dominic in the yard in front. There is across on the roof above the entrance. There is a large stack of firewood ...
Photograph

Daisy Bates with School Children

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Description: Daisy Bates signs autographs for school children who attended the Freedom Rally at Memorial High School where Bates, "the First Lady of Little Rock," was a...
Photograph

Float Honoring St. Norbert's Father Inama

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Description: A sign above a large map of Wisconsin counties is in Latin: "Pro Deo Et Patria," meaning For God and Country, and on the left is a decorated cross, on top ...
Photograph

St. Norbert's Society

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior view of St. Norbert's Society, the first chapel in Roxbury.
Photograph

St. Norbert's Society

Date: 1915
Description: Exterior view of St. Norbert's Society church and parsonage.
Photograph

St. Norbert's Society Church

Date: 1915
Description: Front exterior view of the St. Norbert's Society Church and parsonage.
Photograph

Mrs. Jack Schwartz

Date: 05 05 1954
Description: Mrs. Jack Schwartz of Roxbury holding a 3-month-old baby girl on her lap. The child is one of the nearly 60 foster children that Mrs. Schwartz has cared fo...
Print

St. Norbert House

Date: 
Description: Exterior view of St. Norbert House.
Photograph

St. Norberts Society

Date: 1896
Description: Exterior view of St. Norberts Society along with four clergy portraits.
Photograph

St. Norbert's Baseball Team

Date: 08 08 1954
Description: Group portrait of the St. Norbert's baseball team of Roxbury, Wisconsin.The bat boys in front are not identified. Players include: First row, H. Ballweg,...
Photograph

John Burroughs at Woodchuck Lodge

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Description: John Burroughs (4/3/1837 – 3/29/1921), an American naturalist and essayist important in the evolution of the U.S. conservation movement, standing on the po...
Photograph

Wisconsin Heights

Date: 09 29 1906
Description: A group of people looks over the Wisconsin Heights battlefield as a man gestures. A horse-drawn buggy is on the right and another team of horses is visible...
Photograph

Harvester-Thresher

Date: 10 03 1923
Description: A farmer using a horse-drawn McCormick-Deering harvester-thresher (combine) in a field.
Photograph

Newly Plowed Field

Date: 05 30 1960
Description: View down valley of newly plowed field at the juncture of two fence lines. The farmland belongs to Mr. Carl Meier. A tree-filled ridge is visible in the ba...
Photograph

Roxbury General Store

Date: 1924
Description: Exterior view of the general store and automotive garage in Roxbury. A man and woman, possibly the owners, are standing in front of the buildings.

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