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Rural Lane in Downsville

Date: 1897
Description: View down dirt road, with a few homes on each side of the lane.
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Octagonal Structure

Date: 1897
Description: One-story octagonal building with a chimney and windows in a rural area.
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Elk Mound

Date: 1930
Description: Elk Mound.
Postcard

Bertha Tainter Hall

Date: 1908
Description: Exterior view of the hall. Caption reads: "Bertha Tainter Hall, Menomonie, Wis."
Drawing

Pencil Sketch of Jacob Miller House

Date: 1858
Description: Pencil sketch of the Jacob Miller home.
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Red Cedar or Menomonie River and the Mills

Date: 1880
Description: Elevated view of Red Cedar (or Menomonie) River and the Knapp, Stout & Co., mills from the top of present day Meadow Hill Dr. looking Southeast.
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Cemetery Chapel

Date: 1936
Description: A view of the Paynesville Cemetery Chapel (south elevation).
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The Auto Drive

Date: 1930
Description: View down unpaved road lined with trees toward an automobile driving up the lane toward a fence.
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Clove Bridge

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Description: A creek runs beneath the stone underpass of Clove Bridge. Trees, logs, and foliage surrounding the structure.
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Mabel Tainter Memorial

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Description: Exterior view of the Mabel Tainter Memorial, a Wisconsin State historic site built in 1889. The design was intended to reflect the Richardsonian Romanesque...
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Public School

Date: 1929
Description: Exterior view of the public school. The school building features two stories, a bell tower, and a porch. A car is parked by the entrance. There is a swing ...
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Shropshire Sheep

Date: 1895
Description: A view of purebred Shropshire ewes grouped together in a fenced-in pasture on the stock farm of Andrew Tainter.
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Hogs at Feeding Time

Date: 10 12 1895
Description: Forty-nine hogs at feeding time on the farm of William Miller. The hogs are eleven-months old and weigh approximately 260 lbs each. A wagon and horse team ...
Map or Atlas

Caddie Woodlawn Country

Date: 1974
Description: This 1974 map shows historical sites related to Caddie Woodlawn, a book by Carol Ryrie Brink, in the Town of Dunn, Dunn County, Wisconsin. Some landmarks a...
Photograph

Boy with Sheep

Date: 1932
Description: Gilbert Harvey, wearing a cap and bib overalls, standing in an open pasture with the sheep he raised as a 4-H project.
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Charles Suckow House

Date: 1932
Description: Flowers in a window box brighten the front of the modest one and one-half story house of Charles Suckow. His daughter Lilia was a student at the Peck Schoo...
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Lilia Suckow

Date: 1932
Description: Lilia Suckow, a student at Peck School, works in a tulip bed outside her house. Clothes dry on a line behind the house.
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Electric Dynamo

Date: 1932
Description: An open wooden structure built over a small mill race supports a vertical water wheel. A large belt runs horizontally from the water wheel to a line shaft ...
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Fred Price

Date: 1932
Description: Fred Price poses in a farmyard holding a grain cradle which was made by his father and had been in the family for 55 years. A small granary and another out...
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View of a Farm

Date: 1898
Description: View from field of farm with a wide view of the surrounding landscape.

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