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Group with Musical Instruments

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Description: Group of four women standing and three men seated outdoors. They are all holding musical instruments except for the woman on the far right.
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Group on Main Street

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Description: Three men and a young girl stand on a wooden sidewalk on the right in front of what appears to be a storefront. A group of four small children stand agains...
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Stockholm Village School

Date: 1905
Description: Students and teachers standing outside two-story brick Public School building.
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Rural Mail

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Description: Man delivering mail in winter using a sled pulled by two horses.
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Frank Wilson Family

Date: 1910
Description: Family of Frank Wilson on the porch of their home.
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Home of Eric Hattstrom

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Description: Possibly an anniversary group portrait of the couple seated in the center, with four people posed on each side of them. The women in the center holds flowe...
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Buchanan & Griffin Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Buchanan & Griffin, of Arkansaw, Wisconsin, dealers in "Shelf and Heavy Hardware." Features an interior view of a clerk waiting on a customer...
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Arkansaw Post Office Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Post Office in Arkansaw, Wisconsin, with a uniformed man on horseback blowing a trumpet with a U.S. Mail banner streaming out of it. The ...
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Ladies of Durand

Date: 1895
Description: Posed group portrait of twenty-eight women, perhaps a meeting of some local women's organization.
Postcard

Views from Durand

Date: 1910
Description: A group of women and girls, some wearing hats or carrying a parasol, walking along an unpaved street. There is a large canvas tent in the background, with...
Postcard

Tourist Park

Date: 1910
Description: View looking downhill towards a small structure made of logs and with a large screened porch, set in a wooded area. A woman is standing on the walk near th...
Postcard

Booster Band

Date: 1910
Description: A group of ten musicians posing on an unpaved street with their band instruments. They are wearing hats and band uniforms. Automobiles and commercial build...
Postcard

Bank of Durand

Date: 1910
Description: Black and white photographic postcard view from across street towards a two-story brick corner building, labeled as the Bank of Durand. Two Ford Model T's ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Marker

Date: 09 16 1962
Description: Participants in the dedication ceremony of the Laura Ingalls Wilder historical marker in Pepin, Wilder's birthplace, included, from left to right, Miss Ele...
Photograph

The Crowd at Fort St. Antoine

Date: 05 08 1927
Description: A crowd at Fort St. Antoine celebrating the 23rd anniversary of Nicolas Perrot claiming the territory of the upper Mississippi River for France. A reenactm...
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The Soldiers of Perrot

Date: 05 08 1927
Description: Actors in a reenactment of a Taking Possession ceremony in which Nicolas Perrot claimed the territory of the upper Mississippi River for France.
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Native American Actors

Date: 05 08 1927
Description: Actors (who are possibly Native American) posing outdoors near a lodge. They are participants in a reenactment of a ceremony in which Nicolas Perrot claime...
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Pageant of Taking Possession

Date: 05 07 1927
Description: Actors taking part in a reenactment of a ceremony in which Nicolas Perrot claimed the territory of the upper Mississippi River for France at Fort St. Antoi...
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Actor Joseph Schafer

Date: 05 07 1927
Description: Actor Joseph Shafer/Schafer telling the story of The Ostensorium in a reenactment of a ceremony in which Nicolas Perrot claimed the territory of the upper ...
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Actors in the Taking Possession Pageant

Date: 05 08 1927
Description: From left to right are E.D. Rounds, W.W. Bartell, and Joseph Schafer. They were participants in a reenactment of a ceremony in which Nicolas Perrot claimed...

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