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Street Scene

Date: 1911
Description: A view of the central business district in a rural community. A group of people on the landing of a store. A cart with a pair of horses at hitching post.
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Scenic View

Date: 1925
Description: A view of a road crossing a bridge into a rural community. A railroad crossing at the far end.
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Street Scene

Date: 1925
Description: A view of a street in the central business district. A restaurant with a group of men in front on the left. Three children with a wagon on the right. A hou...
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Creamery

Date: 1911
Description: A view of the creamery and a residence on its second floor. A woman and two children at the foot of the stairs. A one lane road winding up the hill.
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Methodist Evangelical Church

Date: 1911
Description: Three-quarter view of the Methodist Evangelical Church on a hillside. It has a belfry with no steeple and windows shaped like elongated pentagons.
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Public School

Date: 1925
Description: View of a public school on a hilltop, which is a one-story brick building with a chimney and a belfry.
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Painting at Wiota in Memory of First Settlers

Date: 1925
Description: Painting of Fort Hamilton propped outdoors on a woodpile. An oval inset painting at the top commemorates is titled: "Col. Hamilton Leaving For The Gold Fie...
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Esther Peterson

Date: 1932
Description: Esther Peterson, a student at Mud Branch School, District No. 2, poses leaning against a tree on a hill while holding a baseball bat. There is a road and f...
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Violet Jacobson

Date: 1932
Description: Violet Jacobson, a student at Mud Branch School, District No. 2, poses on her family's farm with several calves. There is a barn and two other outbuildings...
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Blomquist Twins

Date: 1932
Description: Twin brothers Glen and Gilman Blomquist pose in the school yard at the Mud Branch School. The boys are 12-years-old and in the sixth grade.
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Oscar Hendrickson Family

Date: 1932
Description: Oscar Hendrickson and his wife pose with their sons Kenneth and Myron in front of their house. Kenneth, a student at the Mud Branch School, District No. 2,...
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Theodore Vinger Farm

Date: 1932
Description: The Theodore Vinger farmstead sits on gently rolling terrain. A painted sign on the large barn identifies the owner. At the time of the photograph, Martin ...
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Cheese Factory

Date: 1932
Description: View up road towards two men posing near the front of a cheese factory on a small hill; on the right a woman and two girls stand near a side door. Typical ...
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The School at Work

Date: 1932
Description: Teacher Marjorie Carey stands behind her pupils sitting at their desks at the Mud Branch School, District No. 2, as they pose for their photograph. There i...
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Norman Peterson

Date: 1932
Description: Norman Peterson, age 11, holds the reins of a team of horses hitched to a harrow. He is a student at the Mud Branch School, District No. 2. On the reverse ...
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Corduroy Road

Date: 1932
Description: Several old timbers are exposed on Mud Branch Road. A one-mile stretch of the road was originally constructed as a corduroy road because of "quick sand" in...
Postcard

Main Street Looking East

Date: 1912
Description: Photographic postcard view of a central business district. On the left is a bank, and a "Place to Eat." Horses and buggies are further down the block. Capt...
Postcard

Blanchardville, Wis.

Date: 1908
Description: Elevated photographic view of the town of Blanchardville with the commercial district on the left, and residential neighborhoods on the right. The river is...
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Millinery Shop

Date: 1905
Description: Mrs. Rossing's millinery shop. Left to right: Mrs. Rossing, Viola Rossing, Anna Davis and the trimmer.
Postcard

Pecatonica River

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view looking up the Pecatonica River. Caption reads: "Pecatonica River, Darlington, Wis."

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