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Ship Bremen

Date: 1987
Description: Text on reverse reads: "Paul & Matilda Wegner Grotto. Ship Bremen 1930. Located on Highway 71, 1/4 mile west of Hwy. 27, 9 miles north of Sparta, WI. One o...
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Burnstadt's European Village and Cafe

Date: 1974
Description: Text on front reads: "Burnstadt's European Village and Cafe, Tomah, Wisconsin." On reverse: "Burnstadt's European Village and Cafe. The warmth of European ...
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Indian School

Date: 09 04 1928
Description: Text on front reads: "Indian School, Tomah, Wis." Opened in 1893, the Tomah Indian Industrial School was intended to teach Indian children how to shed thei...
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Indian Canoe

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Indian Canoe" and "Greetings from Tomah, Wis." On reverse: "Camp of berry-pickers, man, wife, and children. Camp site on a beautiful ...
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Scene in Tomah

Date: 06 10 1912
Description: Text on front reads: "Scene in Tomah, Wisconsin." A man is standing with his team of horses at a public drinking fountain on Superior Avenue, a wide unpave...
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Drinking Fountain, Superior Avenue

Date: 06 01 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "Drinking Fountain, Superior Ave., Tomah, Wis." A public drinking fountain on Superior Avenue, a wide unpaved boulevard. Horse-drawn v...
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Maid of the Mist

Date: 06 03 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "Maid of the Mist, Gillett Park, Tomah, Wis." A stone fountain with a statue of a woman in the center, holding a water vessel on her s...
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Spring Bank

Date: 06 28 1917
Description: Text on front reads: "Spring Bank, Near Tomah." Three women and a man stand on a wooden suspension bridge over a pond on Sparta Creek. One woman is holding...
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Indian School

Date: 06 22 1942
Description: Text on front reads: "U.S. Indian School, Tomah Wis." Opened in 1893, the Tomah Indian Industrial School was intended to teach Indian children how to shed ...
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L.A. Rowland's Resort

Date: 09 05 1908
Description: Text on front reads: "L.A. Rowland's Res., Tomah, Wis." A large clapboard lodge with striped awnings and a decorative wooden fence. A sidewalk, lawn and tr...
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Hilger's at the Stoplight

Date: 1975
Description: Text on front reads: "Hilger's at the Stoplight, Tomah, Wis." Rubber stamped on the reverse: "Hilger's Pop Corn Wagon. At the Stop & Go Light, Tomah, Wisco...
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Souvenir of Tomah

Date: 1904
Description: Text on reverse reads: "Multiple View Card, Souvenir of Tomah." The smaller images, which flip when the card on top is pulled, include: Congregational Chur...
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First Baptist Church

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "First Baptist Church, Warrens, Wis." A clapboard church built in the Queen Anne style with ornate stained glass window, belfry and tr...
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Water Spirit Effigy

Date: 05 04 1915
Description: Caption reads: "An effigy of the water spirit type found at Clifton, Wis. The outline was whitewashed, the mound being carefully followed where it met the ...

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