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| Date: | 11 30 1949 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the newly built South Hall of the Wisconsin Academy at Columbus Wisconsin. The Academy is a high school co-ed boarding school, formerly k... |
| Date: | 11 30 1949 |
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| Description: | A group of people, possibly faculty and students, stand in front of the newly built South Hall of the Wisconsin Academy. The academy was formerly known as... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with highlights of the boys summer camp at Camp America Williams: "backwards" day, with a line of boys dr... |
| Date: | 07 1942 |
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| Description: | Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with images from an archery tournament at a summer camp for boys at Camp America Williams: a group of fin... |
| Date: | 07 1942 |
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| Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with Pat McCann, the last shooter in an archery tournament held at a boys summer camp, drawing the bow a... |
| Date: | 07 1942 |
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| Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House of a boys summer camp, with an image of Skip Sul?(obscured letters) participating in a game involving tak... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | This map of the Wisconsin Dells shows original plats and various additions. Some streets are labeled as is the Wisconsin River. The map was originally crea... |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | A work shift of German prisoners at a prisoner of war camp are being loaded onto a truck to be conveyed to work at a local cannery. |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a work shift of German prisoners at a prisoner of war camp marching to a truck to be conveyed to work at a local cannery. |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Two German prisoners and two American officers discussing some papers while standing outdoors. In the background, German prisoners of war are lined up for ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | August Derleth posing on a boat tied up to a pier on the Wisconsin River. With him are Ruth Marshall (seated), another woman, and a dog. Four men are stand... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A black bear cub holding onto tree limbs while climbing a white pine sapling. |
| Date: | 04 1946 |
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| Description: | A man, probably a game warden, wearing a necktie and woolen jacket is capturing pheasants in a net. There is a chicken wire fence behind the birds. Beyond ... |
| Date: | 05 26 1947 |
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| Description: | View from above towards a rock formation surrounded by trees. The valley is below in the bakground. Caption reads: "Columbia County - Richmond Memorial Par... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A view from the top of Gibraltar Rock showing a portion of the bluff, left, and rolling fields and woodlands beyond. There is a pond or stream on the right... |
| Date: | 11 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a field, with farmland, roads, houses, and groves of trees. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Greetings From Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin." A Large Letter Postcard with a blue and orange background, each letter is filled with a s... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Text on front: "The Hiawatha. Crossing the Wisconsin River at the 'Dells'." On reverse: "The Scenic Route. The Milwaukee Road is the only double tracked ro... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Rattlesnake Rock, Dells of the Wisconsin River." On reverse: "Up stream from the Narrows, on the left bank, is Rattlesnake Rock. Look... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "The Post Card Shop, Wisconsin Dells, Wis." On the reverse : "The Post Card Shop is situated across from the boat docks. It is a conve... |
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