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Early Morning at Railroad Crossing

Date: 10 03 1960
Description: Early morning at a railroad crossing on County Highway A, with houses and a barn in the distance.
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Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane

Date: 1872
Description: View of Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute).
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Tollef Gjermundsen Farmstead

Date: 1874
Description: View down hill towards two men in the foreground standing on top of a stone fence looking out onto fields where two or three men are working with two wagon...
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Children by the Reverend Abraham Jacobson Home

Date: 1877
Description: Three children stand at the corner of the home of the Reverend Abraham Jacobson (1836-1910) and his wife Nicoline Hegg Jacobson. Two adults stand in a tree...
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Family by First Home

Date: 1875
Description: Unidentified family. A group of seven people are sitting at a table, and another group of people is sitting together on the left. Tall grasses and plants s...
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Wisconsin Heights

Date: 09 29 1906
Description: A group of people looks over the Wisconsin Heights battlefield as a man gestures. A horse-drawn buggy is on the right and another team of horses is visible...
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Field in Bloom

Date: 05 19 1963
Description: View of a field of blooming wild mustard(?). In the distance, several farms are visible.
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Woman Posing with Sign

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Description: A woman in a dress and scarf poses beneath a Ford and Fordson sign. Farm buildings are in the background.
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Bird's Eye View

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of Mount Vernon from the a grassy hill.
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Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Bridge

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Description: View down railroad tracks of a railroad bridge, which has framed beams on the sides and top. A boy and girl are standing and posing on the bridge. Signs ar...
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Open Fields

Date: 1960
Description: View down slope across open fields over a barbed wire fence towards the horizon. The field is uncut in the foreground, obscuring an abandoned farm implemen...
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Farmland Vista

Date: 1961
Description: Vista over farmland from a small country cemetery.
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Small Girl Near Railroad Tracks

Date: 1920
Description: Unidentified small girl holding a parasol, posed beside railroad tracks.
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Cemetery View

Date: 1961
Description: View over fields, looking out from the cemetery.
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 134

Date: 
Description: We always know what day it is
Because it never fails. Sometime between the awful and the coffee
that stepson drives along the road
and all the dog...
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Wild Mustard

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Description: View of a field of wild mustard with yellow flowers. A barn and silo are in the far background.
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Oscar Mayer Farms

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Description: View across fence through trees towards fields and farm buildings.

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