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Hernkind House and Family

Date: 09 08 1904
Description: August Hernkind, center, and his wife Kate are posing with their seven children in front of their one and one-half story wood frame farm house. Their daugh...
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Couple in Buggy

Date: 1905
Description: A young man, identified on the negative envelope as Arther Samfle [sic], is sitting with a young woman in a buggy hitched to a matched team. The horses are...
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Bridal Party

Date: 06 27 1906
Description: Outdoor group portrait of a bride and groom, center, flanked by their six attendants, taken on the lawn of the Von der Sump farmhouse. Although not identif...
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Wallace's Pony

Date: 1905
Description: A portrait of a horse fitted with a tooled leather saddle. A wooded hillside is in the background.
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Hunting in the Snow

Date: 1905
Description: An unidentified man is posing with a long gun in a snowy field. There is a tree in the left foreground, and a wooded hillside in the background.
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Man and Horse

Date: 1905
Description: A young man, possibly Fred von der Sump, posing holding the lead of a horse. The man is wearing work pants, an undershirt and suspenders. There are shocks ...
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Sleigh and Team

Date: 1905
Description: An unidentified man, possibly Will von der Sump, and woman are posing sitting in a cutter drawn by a matched pair of white horses. The man is wearing a fur...
Postcard

Street Scene

Date: 1912
Description: Photographic postcard view looking west down Barstow (now East Montello) Street. Trees shade the houses at right. The two-story brick home of Frank Dodge ...
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Portrait of a Hunter

Date: 1961
Description: A hunter posing on a stone wall with his shotgun and the grouse he bagged. He is wearing a billed cap, plaid coat, tough trousers and lace-up knee-high boo...
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Granite Quarry

Date: 1977
Description: Elevated view across a granite quarry looking west, with Buffalo Lake in the background. Buildings of the town are between the quarry and the lake, and a p...
Postcard

Small Town Neighborhood

Date: 10 29 1906
Description: View from a hillside towards a woman walking on an unpaved neighborhood street in a small town, with dwellings and trees on both sides. Along the horizon a...
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Bridge on Buck Creek

Date: 09 19 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Scene on Buck Creek, Westfield, Wis." A seated man and a standing boy pose on a wooden bridge over Buck Creek. The bridge has railing...
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Methodist Episcopal Church

Date: 09 28 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "M.E. Church, Westfield, Wis." A Methodist Episcopal Church with a belfry, built in 1865 of clapboard in the Gothic revival style. The...
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The Dam

Date: 07 13 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "The Dam – Westfield, Wis." Water spills over the dam into the river, and buildings are behind and above the dam. There are trees on b...
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Main Street

Date: 1945
Description: Text on front reads: "Main Street, Westfield, Wis." Many automobiles and a Greyhound Bus are diagonally parked on Main Street. The destination sign on the ...
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Grade School

Date: 05 30 1932
Description: Text on front reads: "Grade School, Westfield, Wis." Originally built in 1887, the grade school students were downstairs and the high school students upsta...
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Hotel Hammond

Date: 07 27 1912
Description: Text on front reads: "Hotel Hammond, Westfield, Wis." A two-story hotel built of concrete block with a covered porch. Later it was called the Hotel Westfie...
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Quarry Houses

Date: 1910
Description: Six men are posing on horse-drawn wagons at quarry houses for the Montello Granite Co. A large building is on the right, and a pile of stone and two small ...
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Shaping Stone for Monuments

Date: 1910
Description: Group of men posing outdoors among large stones. Caption on back reads: "Shaping stone for monuments, Montello Granite Co., Montello, Wis."
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Where Granite is Quarried

Date: 1910
Description: View across the quarry toward three men standing on a ledge below a large rock face. Ladders are set up above and below the ledge. Another group of men are...

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