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Greased Pig Chase at the Hustler Harvest Festival

Date: 1922
Description: View down unpaved Main Street of a group of men racing after a pig during the Hustler Harvest Festival. On the right is the Nash Service Station and the M....
Photograph

Foot Race at the Hustler Harvest Festival

Date: 1915
Description: A group of young boys races down the street as a large crowd watches. The Hustler State Bank is across the street on the right. A group of people stand in ...
Photograph

Elroy Roundhouse

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of the roundhouse for the Chicago North Western Railway, one of two Elroy roundhouses during the railroad boom. This roundhouse has 20 stalls...
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1930
Description: View down Main Street. The wide street has cars and trucks parked along the curbs on both sides. The Elroy Post Office is on the corner on the right. Furth...
Photograph

Elroy Roundhouse and Railroad Yard

Date: 
Description: View of the Chicago North Western Railroad Roundhouse in Elroy. There are several train cars sitting on multiple sets of railroad tracks on the left. There...
Photograph

Deserted Cabin at Camp Douglas

Date: 07 1900
Description: View across field of a deserted cabin at Camp Douglas. Another group of cabins are behind a fence on the right. Trees and foliage are in the background.
Map or Atlas

Map of Juneau County Wisconsin

Date: 1876
Description: A hand-colored map on six sheets, this map of Juneau County indicates the locations of townships and sections, landowners and acreages, roads, wagon roads,...
Map or Atlas

Wonewoc, Juneau County, Wis.

Date: 1879
Description: This bird’s-eye-view map is a photostat copy of the orginal and is indexed for points of interest. Streets are labeled as well as the Barbaoo River.
Map or Atlas

Map of the Village of Mauston, Juneau Co., Wis.

Date: 
Description: This plat map shows numbered blocks and lots, local streets, the La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad, and part of the Lemonwier [i.e. Lemonweir] River.
Photograph

Sauk County Manhunt Searchers

Date: 08 24 1961
Description: Three Jefferson County Sheriff Department officers and a search volunteer posing with two bloodhounds that took part in a manhunt for a suspect from an inc...
Map or Atlas

City of Mauston

Date: 1958
Description: This blue line print map shows lot and block numbers and dimensions, additions, and some landownership. The Lawrence River is labeled.
Photograph

Meal at Camp Douglas

Date: 1914
Description: Group portrait of a number of soldiers, and a young boy, at Camp Douglas having a meal on an improvised table near a tree. One of the men has a dog on his ...
Painting

Mill Bluff

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Description: Watercolor painting of Mill Bluff, now part of Mill Bluff State Park.
Photograph

Company "K" Fourth Wisconsin Infantry

Date: 1917
Description: Panoramic group portrait of Company "K" Fourth Wisconsin Infantry. In the background is a rock formation, one of several in the area, with trees. The soldi...
Photograph

Margaret Kocher and Richard Retzlaff

Date: 10 10 1978
Description: Margaret Kocher and Richard Retzlaff of Wonewoc posing in front of their 100-year-old barn. "People are always saying we should tear it down because it's t...
Photograph

Farm and Bluffs

Date: 10 20 1978
Description: View across field towards a wagon stacked with bales of hay near a barn and a silo at the base of a bluff near Union Center.
Photograph

Judging Corn

Date: 1920
Description: A group of Native American men, women and children are posing around a table piled with ears of corn in front of a stage in an auditorium. Several of the m...
Photograph

Twin Bluffs Petroglyphs

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Description: Figures carved in stone at Twin Bluffs petroglyph site.
Postcard

Elroy Hospital

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Description: Exterior view of the Elroy Hospital. The two-story building has a wrap-around porch. In the background is a field with piles of harvested grain. Caption re...
Postcard

High School

Date: 1909
Description: Hand-colored postcard of the high school obscured by trees. The red brick building has two-stories with a bell tower. Caption reads: "High School, Elroy, W...

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