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| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | This map is ink, pencil, and color on paper and shows property owners, a cemetery, farms, hotels, roads, a dike and on the back are additional notes. Notes... |
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| Description: | View across street towards the Friendship Hotel, including a tavern and cafe. Automobiles are parked in front. There are Coca-Cola signs under the front wi... |
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| Description: | View down north Main Street. The Hotel Wrchota is on the left. Horse-drawn vehicles and automobiles are further down the street. A tree-covered hill is in ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Friendship, with houses and commercial buildings. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | View of Main Street in Friendship. The J.Hill & Son General Store is on the right, with two women at the entrance. Horse-drawn vehicles are in the street. |
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| Description: | View of the Adams County Courthouse, a two-story brick building with steps up to the entrance. |
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| Description: | Corner view of the high school — a two-story brick building. |
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| Description: | View of Friendship Mound — a rocky outcropping, from the road below. |
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| Description: | Hand-colored postcard of Rabbit Rock — a rocky outcropping with two towers of stone. |
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| Description: | Three young people are standing on Rabbit Rock, two of them in the foreground, and one on top of the taller peak. Highway 13 is below in the background. |
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| Description: | One man, wearing a hard hat, is kneeling in the dirt in the foreground, while another man wearing a cap is resting one foot on a Minneapolis-Moline disk pl... |
| Date: | 05 29 1899 |
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| Description: | Letterhead for O.C. Sveen & Bro., featuring an image of the American flag on the left. Text reads: "Office of O.C. Sveen & Bro., Dealers in General Merchan... |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | Landscape photograph by Sid Boyum of a fisherman on the bank of Big Spring Creek near a power house and dam. The fisherman to the right blends into the bui... |
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| Description: | View from a bluff overlooking a glacial drumlin and a hill in the distance. Identified via caption as Roche-a-Cri. |
| Date: | 04 1955 |
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| Description: | Three men visit at the corner of the Plainville Grocery. There are many signs and logos on the storefront: "Coca-Cola," "Peerless Beer," "Model Smoking Tob... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A group of three men and four women, probably members of the Von der Sump family, posing for a casual portrait on a rock formation at the Wisconsin Dells. |
| Date: | 06 1964 |
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| Description: | Irrigation sprinklers spraying water onto a field near Grand Marsh. |
| Date: | 07 09 1911 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Chimney Rock, Dells of the Wisconsin." The rock formation Chimney Rock overhanging the Wisconsin River. Bluffs are on the left and th... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Residence, Dist. White Creek, Wis." Handwritten on front: "This is my cousin's house." A home with oblong-shaped openings on the porc... |
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