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Neshonoc Falls

Date: 01 13 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Neshonoc Falls, West Salem, Wis." The Neshonoc Dam, powerhouse and spillway on the La Crosse River. The powerhouse was built after 18...
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High School

Date: 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "High School, West Salem, Wis." A two-story, brick high school with arched windows and a belfry. It is surrounded by a lawn and trees.
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Maple Grove Country Club

Date: 07 10 1970
Description: Text on front reads: "Maple Grove Country Club. West Salem, Wis. Built in 1928. Wisconsin's sportiest and most natural 18 hole golf course in the beautiful...
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"Carry A Nation"

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Description: View of (Carry) Carrie Nation speaking from a stage surrounded by a crowd at a county fair.
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Swarthout Lakeside Park

Date: 1955
Description: A motorboat on Lake Neshonoc is speeding toward the public landing, where there is a car parked and a small group of people has gathered. A man in a swimmi...
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Eugene Olson and His Dog

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Description: Eugene W. Olson and his dog, Travis, check the mailbox on a road near West Salem. In the background are fields on a hill.
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Looking South on Main Street

Date: 1929
Description: View down middle of Main Street paved with cobblestones. There is a railroad crossing at the far end, and the ridge of a hill in the far background. A barb...
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Memorial Park

Date: 1926
Description: View down path of Memorial Park. A pavilion in the center is surrounded by bushes and plants.
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West Salem Depot

Date: 1922
Description: View along railroad tracks of the depot, with an approaching train coming from the opposite direction. Two men stand on the platform next to the building. ...
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Affiliated Church

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Description: Three-quarter view from across a road of the Affiliated Church. An arched stained glass window is in the front on the left. Tall rectangular stained glass ...
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Canning Factory

Date: 1911
Description: View across set of railroad tracks of a canning factory. There are a number of warehouses and outbuildings. Trees are on a hill in the background.
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Street Scene

Date: 1929
Description: View down middle of street towards central business section. On the left is a building with a belfry. Cars and businesses line both sides of the street, pe...
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Main Street

Date: 1922
Description: View down center of Main Street with cobblestones. There is a railroad crossing in the foreground. Service garages are on the left and right corners. Parke...
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8-Can Milk Cooler

Date: 11 11 1936
Description: H.W. Griswold stands beside a McCormick-Deering 8-can milk cooler.
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Monroe Palmer Octagon House

Date: 1900
Description: The Monroe Palmer Octagon house, built about 1852 at Neshonoc, Wisconsin, and moved to this site in 1890.
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Hamlin Garland House

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Description: The home of Hamlin Garland.
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Zulime Taft Garland and Mary Isabel

Date: 1903
Description: Zulime Taft Garland, wife of Hamlin Garland, holds their infant daughter Mary Isabel while sitting in a rocking chair.
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Garland at West Salem Family Home

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Description: Informal portrait of writer Hamlin Garland at his family home in West Salem. The woman with him has been tentatively identified as his daughter, Mary Isabe...
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Hamlin Garland Homestead

Date: 1950
Description: Text on reverse: "Hamlin Garland Homestead. West Salem, Wisconsin. Purchased by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Hamlin Garland in 1893 for his parents, the ...
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Man Cultivating Corn in Strip-Cropped Field

Date: 07 18 1945
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of a man cultivating corn in stripped-cropped field using a Farmall H tractor and HM-238 Farmall cultivator. In the bac...

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