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Football Team

Date: 1899
Description: The football team from Platteville Normal School.
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Platteville Coon Dog Race

Date: 07 02 1944
Description: Coon dogs starting race with handlers and spectators in background.
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Platteville Coon Dog Event

Date: 07 02 1944
Description: Coon dogs treeing a raccoon with handler and spectators observing. Sign on spectators' fence says: "Elect Taylor G. Brown, Republican Candidate for Lieuten...
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Walter Goodland with John Grindell and Aloys Klaas

Date: 09 04 1943
Description: Governor Goodland conferring with District Attorney John Grindell and Sheriff Aloys Klaas about gambling in Grant County.
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Pickering Camp

Date: 1920
Description: View across water towards the C.R. Pickering Camp on Mill Creek, in summer. The shelter is on a hill overlooking the pond.
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Pickering Camp

Date: 1920
Description: C.R. Pickering Camp on Mill Creek, in winter with snow on the ground. On the opposite shoreline is a shelter on the hill overlooking the creek, with a set ...
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Composite Views of Town

Date: 1909
Description: Composite of views of Muscoda including: Electric Light plant, Smalley House, St. John Catholic Church, Lover's Lane, Muscoda Public School, Wisconsin Aven...
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Cassville Campgrounds

Date: 1905
Description: Children and adults at picnic campground owned by Gus Klindt near Cassville.
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Cheese Day Celebration

Date: 10 24 1930
Description: Celebrating the first "Cheese Day" with a parade. A group of spectators gather on the sidewalk near a truck displaying a banner and stove in the back.
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Agricultural Fair at Union High School

Date: 1913
Description: Fair goers gather in front of Union High School.
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Liberty School District #1 School Building

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Description: View across lawn of a clapboard one-room schoolhouse with students and a teacher playing baseball on the right in the middle distance.
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Liberty School District #3 School Building

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Description: View across yard of a clapboard one-room schoolhouse with a teacher and children playing outside.
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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: View from road of students and teachers posing in front of a clapboard one-room schoolhouse. Some of the boys wear baseball gloves. A hill rises in the ba...
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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: Teacher and students pose on and around playground structure with swings outside a clapboard one-room schoolhouse.
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Grant County Contest Winners

Date: 05 1912
Description: Group of children pose in front of the entrance to a brick building. First row, reading from left to right: Willie Wieland, Millie Geyer, Florence, Wielan...
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Closing Day Exercises in District #15, North Lancaster

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Description: A large group of children and adults pose in a field around trees. There is a tent in the background with flags, and two women sit in a carriage on the lef...
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Picnic Dinner

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Description: Children and adults seated at a large make-shift picnic table in a field near a tree. In the background on the left is a carriage, and on the right a horse...
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Big Badger Fair Broadside

Date: 1912
Description: Announcement from the Educational Department of the Big Badger Fair, held September 3-6, 1912 in Platteville.
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Educational Exhibit at the Big Badger Fair

Date: 1913
Description: Exhibit featuring pressed flowers, maps, drawings, and written compositions.
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Educational Exhibit at the Big Badger Fair

Date: 1913
Description: Exhibit featuring maps, drawings, photographs, and compositions.

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