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Main Street, Cross Plains, Wis. No. 1

Date: 1910
Description: View down Main Street, a dirt road with horses and buggies and a wooden walkway. There is a brick building in the left foreground, with houses further down...
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Undertaker

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Description: Undertaker's funeral parlor and other buildings along a dirt street with a sidewalk. An oblong sign attached to the balcony hangs over the sidewalk and rea...
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Buick Auto Garage

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Description: View across road of D.A. Meister's Garage, with a fire truck parked in front and an automobile parked at the curb on the right. One boy is sitting on the f...
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Outdoor Portrait of Elderly Woman

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Description: Portrait of an elderly woman. She is seated in a chair holding flowers on her lap. Caladium in pots are arranged on both sides. In the background are ferns...
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Family Wedding Portrait with Framed Wreath

Date: 1917
Description: Studio family wedding portrait in front of a painted background with a framed wreath in the center. The wreath is celebrating the wedding of the bride and ...
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Interior of Bowar Bros. Garage

Date: 1915
Description: Interior view of the Bowar Bros. Garage. On two walls are banks of drawers and cubby holes for tools and parts. On the right are more shelves for tools. Am...
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St. Francis Xavier Church During Jubilee

Date: 1928
Description: Interior elevated view of St. Francis Xavier Church looking towards the altar. Note the American and religious flags and bunting decorating the pillars and...
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Cross Plains from Lutheran Church Hill

Date: 1928
Description: View down valley towards the back of the Lutheran Church and cemetery. Houses and barns are in the valley below, and more hills are in the far background. ...
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View from Hill of Cross Plains

Date: 1928
Description: View from grassy hill of uptown Cross Plains. The Catholic Church (St. Francis Xavier) is on the right, and farmhouses and other buildings are among fields...
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Portrait of Three Women and a Girl

Date: 1918
Description: Studio portrait of three women and a girl in front of a painted backdrop. Two of the older women are seated, and the girl, wearing a large hair bow, is sta...
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Outdoor Portrait of Elderly Woman and Three Children

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Description: Group portrait of an elderly woman and three small children, including an infant. The woman is seated in a chair with the infant on her lap. A boy stands o...
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Thompson Tent Show

Date: 1907
Description: Photographic postcard of the Thompson Tent Show. A tent, a tall wagon and a truck that runs the generator are set up in a field or park with houses and tre...
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Group Portrait of Five Women

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Description: Portrait of five women, two standing and three seated in chairs. The woman standing on the left is Ann Drucella Witt, sister of Matthew Witt, owner of the ...
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Three Women

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Description: Photographic postcard of a studio portrait of three women, one seated in the center with her arms crossed and two standing behind her on both sides. The se...
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Interior of Repair Shop

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Description: Interior view of a machine shop, possibly for wagon or vehicle repair. A wood burning stove is on the left. In the center is a bank of drawers and cubby ho...
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Cross Plains Home with Barber Shop in Basement

Date: 1920
Description: Front three-quarter view of large frame residence with porch and balcony. Steps with a barber pole at the top of the railing lead to a store window at foun...
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Hotel and Feed Barn

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Description: Photographic postcard of view across muddy road of a man wearing a suit and standing on the porch of the two-story Hotel and Feed Barn. Two signs next to h...
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Businessman at his Desk

Date: 1918
Description: Unidentified business or professional man seated in a chair in front of a roll-top desk. He is wearing round eyeglasses, and there is a typewriter on the d...
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Farmer with Boys and Horses

Date: 1922
Description: Farmer and three boys posing with five horses in front of a house.
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Bride Standing in a Landscape

Date: 1921
Description: Full length portrait of a bride in a long white dress and wearing a veil standing on a lawn holding a bouquet of flowers. There are trees in the background...

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