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Newport Church

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Description: Exterior view of Newport Church, with the congregation gathered in front.
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Steele Tavern

Date: 1923
Description: Steele Tavern, built in 1849. The large, two-story wooden building with a rear wing, is in a state of neglect. The portion on the left has twelve over eigh...
Photograph

Steele Tavern

Date: 1900
Description: Steele Tavern.
Photograph

General Store and Post Office

Date: 1895
Description: General store and post office. Hans Johsnon, Newport's founder, is shown on the porch. Logs are stacked in the foreground. The post office was established ...
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Lutheran Church

Date: 1950
Description: Exterior view across fence and field towards the Lutheran church and cemetery of a German or Norwegian settlement near the intersection of Highway 16 and C...
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Man Rowing Boat on Wisconsin River

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Description: Caption on stereograph reads, "In and about the Dells of the Wisconsin River. Sugar Bowl."
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Man and Boat at The Sugar Bowl

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Description: A man stands on the shoreline with a boat near the rock formations in the Sugar Bowl.
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Sugar Bowl

Date: 1910
Description: The rock formation at the Dells known as the Sugar Bowl.
Photograph

Sugar Bowl

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Description: View of the Sugar Bowl rock formation on the Wisconsin River. The photograph caption reads "Camera Works by Sweet MPLS."
Map or Atlas

Plat of Newport

Date: 1854
Description: This map is ink and watercolor on tracing cloth and shows lot and block numbers, streets, a park, and depots. Some lots are colored red or blue and some in...
Photograph

Sugar Bowl

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Description: Stereograph of the Sugar Bowl, a rock formation in the Wisconsin Dells, with trees growing on the top. A man in a rowboat is floating between the rock and ...
Postcard

Reuben Gold Thwaites Speaking at Newport

Date: 08 1909
Description: A man is standing on a small ridge, surrounded by people sitting on the ground. He is holding an open book and speaking. Caption reads: "Reuben G. Thwaites...

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