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Farmall H with Soil Pulverizers

Date: 1947
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man driving a Farmall H with soil pulverizers, with grass seeding attachment and seed box. Farm of Tom Stolen, Route...
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Elijah Swan

Date: 1850
Description: A sixth plate daguerreotype of Elijah Swan. The subject is half length, facing front. He is holding a cane in his right hand, and an unidentified object i...
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Catholic Church

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Description: Exterior of the Catholic Church. There is a cemetery behind the building.
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Scene in Park

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Description: A group of young women sit on the grass at a park. There is a monument in the park. A man stands near the Cottage Grove train depot in the background.
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Business Section

Date: 1928
Description: View across commercial street looking south. Parked at the curb are cars, and driving along the street is a bearded man with a horse and buggy. The shops a...
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Public School

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Description: Exterior of the Cottage Grove Grade School with carved stone plaque. There is an entrance on both ends of the facade.
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Cottage Grove Baseball Team

Date: 06 21 1953
Description: Group portrait of the Cottage Grove Baseball Team.
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Cottage Grove Graded School Style Show

Date: 04 24 1946
Description: Group portrait of seven females and one young girl in formals and street dresses from the Emporium Department Store that they modeled in the Cottage Grove ...
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Cottage Grove Grade School Style Show

Date: 04 24 1946
Description: Group portrait of seven 9th and 10th grade girls modeling clothing from the Emporium Department Store for the Cottage Grove Grade School Style Show. Left t...
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Cottage Grove Schoolhouse

Date: 1910
Description: Exterior view of a schoolhouse in Cottage Grove with students posing in front of the building.
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German Evangelical Association Church

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior of church, with snow on the ground.
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Street Scene

Date: 1929
Description: View down a road towards commercial strip of town. On the right is a gas station and repair shop, on the left side are a restaurant/bakery, and a Chevrolet...
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Boys at Youth Club Event

Date: 03 10 1944
Description: Five boys in "stag line" at Cottage Grove Youth Club event in the Town Hall. Left to right are: Rowley Conant, Nora School; Rolly Gausmann, Cottage Grove S...
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Dane County Homecrafters

Date: 03 06 1956
Description: Herman Skolas sits in a wheelchair while weaving on his loom as his eight-year-old granddaughter, Deborah Culham of Stoughton, looks on approvingly. Skolas...
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George Smith, Hermit

Date: 12 31 1934
Description: Portrait of George Smith, hermit, rescued from squalid shack in Cottage Grove, and taken to Dane County home in Verona.
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George Smith's Shack

Date: 12 31 1934
Description: Interior of hermit George Smith's squalid shack, 2 miles southwest of Cottage Grove.
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Women Dancing

Date: 03 10 1944
Description: Two sets of twins dance at the recreation center for school pupils at the Cottage Grove Town Hall. Included on the left are Jean and Joan Hanson of Cottage...
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Girls Drinking from Soda Bottles

Date: 03 10 1944
Description: Three girls at the recreational center for school pupils at the Cottage Grove Town Hall drink from Nehi soda bottles.
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Queen of Apostles Pallottine Seminary Interior

Date: 11 01 1949
Description: Interior view of the new Queen of Apostles Pallottine Seminary, 5810 Cottage Grove Road, showing a classroom that is being used as a chapel.
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Queen of Apostles Pallottine Seminary Exterior

Date: 11 01 1949
Description: Exterior view of the new Queen of Apostles Pallottine Seminary, 5810 Cottage Grove Road, taken from the driveway off the highway.

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