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| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A view of the Portage Canal and lock. The Indian Agency House in the center background. The canal was dug in 1849 as part of the Fox-Wisconsin waterway pro... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A view of the Portage Canal. In the immediate foreground is the Fox River, then the lower locks and the canal itself. The Indian Agency House may be seen t... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A view of the canal locks of the Portage Canal. Men are standing at the edge of the locks on the right. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Second to last steamboat on the river taken before 1931, burned in 1931. Taken from Romance Cliff, "The Apollo" is shown coming through with smoke billowin... |
| Date: | 06 23 1936 |
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| Description: | Workers in trial fields of the Leonard Seed Company, with the processing plant in the background. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Triangle filling station on Highway 12, which sold gasoline, ice, and other items. A man stands in front by the gas pump, and a map of... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | The skipper guides the motor launch Miss Helen on the Wisconsin River in the Dells. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A man in Native American clothing is standing on the ledge near Stand Rock. Two women are watching from the ground below. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A small child stands by a rustic wooden gate in a brick archway at the home of William Llewellyn and Zona Gale Breese. The child may be Leslyn, the adopted... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A portrait of the bride, Juliette, seated, with her father, William Llewellyn Breese, and step-mother Zona Gale Breese, standing behind her. There is an ar... |
| Date: | 11 1935 |
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| Description: | Typewritten playbill for the puppet show "Ocean Treasure" written and produced by Miriam Bennett. |
| Date: | 11 1935 |
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| Description: | Marionettes made by Miriam Bennett used in the production of "Ocean Treasure," a puppet show written and produced by Miriam Bennett. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A view of the Indian Agency House, built in 1832. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A view of a small grain elevator and various other farm buildings near a road. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Interior of a living room at Walmar Lodge. The room includes: wood and wicker chairs, a piano, a fireplace, a bookshelf, a desk, a rug and a lamp. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A man and four women pose at the exterior of a log cabin with a "chateau" sign over the entrance. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Outdoor scene at the Dells Farm Resort. Five people pose while seated on lawn furniture outside the cabin. Another woman poses as she is about to hit a cro... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored image of two swimmers sitting on a pier with their legs in the water at a camp in West Point sponsored by Neighborhood House. Several other sw... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored group portrait of Camp Fire girls and a man dressed in Ojibwa-style floral embroidered/beaded clothing and a Plains Indian feathered headdress... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | This pictorial map from the first half of the 20th century shows the landmarks, highways, rail lines, and cities and villages in the vicinity of the Wiscon... |
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