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Group in front of School

Date: 1875
Description: Stereograph view across road towards a school building with children gathered outside.
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Point Douglas

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view from hill of a steamer at Point Douglas going upstream on the Mississippi River. Caption reads: "Mississippi River at Prescott, Wis."
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Prescott House

Date: 1932
Description: Exterior view of the Prescott House, an inn built in 1856 that served the nearby farmers until about 1870.
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Methodist Episcopal Church

Date: 1885
Description: Stereograph view of a Methodist Episcopal church with children and adults lined up outside the fence.
Postcard

St. Leon Motel on Main Street

Date: 1905
Description: View looking down Main Street. The St. Leon Hotel is on the right. Caption reads: "Main Street, Prescott, Wis."
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1905
Description: View down center of Main Street. Caption reads: "Main St., Prescott, Wis."
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1880
Description: Stereograph view of several establishments along Main Street with people standing along the walkway in front of them. The signs on the buildings read: "R.L...
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Buildings Along Levee

Date: 07 1908
Description: View along a levee, with buildings on the left. Dunbar's Hall, the large building in the foreground, burned down during the winter of 1907-1908. Five men a...
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Buildings Along Levee

Date: 1868
Description: Stereograph view of the levee, with buildings along the left. Signs on the buildings read, left to right: "(?) Hotel", "Saloon" and "Dunbar's Hall." People...
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Buildings Along Levee

Date: 1860
Description: View of buildings along the levee.
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Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad

Date: 1886
Description: View of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroad drawbridge and trestle.
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Callahan Home

Date: 1930
Description: Exterior view of the childhood home of John M. Callahan, State Superintendent of Schools.
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Baptist Church

Date: 1856
Description: Exterior view of a Baptist church.
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Rest Stop

Date: 1925
Description: A passenger bus making a stop at the service station of Gustav H. Schwalen.
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Grasshopper Bait Station

Date: 07 1938
Description: Grasshopper bait mixing station at Ellsworth.
Postcard

Steamboat on Mississippi River

Date: 
Description: Elevated view over trees toward a steamboat on the Mississippi River. Caption reads: "Mississippi River at Prescott, Wis."
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Fortune's Car

Date: 1928
Description: George Fortune of River Falls sitting in his new car, with his dog in the back seat.
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Student on a Freezing Day

Date: 1911
Description: A college student setting out to class in zero degree weather. He is holding his books, and is wearing a hat and gloves, and has a scarf wrapped around his...
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El Paso Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: Knute Bjornson originally built this house in the 1860's and in 1933, his grandson Cooney Bjornson reassembled the humble log building to house a gas stati...
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Main Street

Date: 1900
Description: A view of the row of shops along Main Street, with J.W. Allard's store in the foreground on the right. A group of men are further down the street.

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