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| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View across yard towards a residence. Caption reads: "Residence Scene Osceola, Wis." |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View from sidewalk on left side of bridge towards Main Street. Caption reads: "Main Street, Looking North, Osceola, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Osceola High School, with people standing near the entrance. Caption reads: "High School Building, Osceola, Wisconsin." |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | The football team of clear Lake High School. Gaylord Nelson, later governor of Wisconsin and U.S. Senator, is second from the left in the front row. |
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| Description: | Mountain meadow at Interstate Park. This area was an ancient lake which became filled with peat. Prehistoric bison bones, copper points, and flint arrow po... |
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| Description: | Tent covering the excavation site of the bones of extinct bison. Milo Mickelson and Lester Giesler are standing in the doorway of the tent. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | The manufacture of bricks was begun on this spot sometime in the latter 1860's by Henry Bretag, a German brickmaker, the father of Mrs. Englehardt. Brick ... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Built sometime in the mid-1930s, this unique station, located at 118 Highway 35, visually illustrates its ongoing changes and success over time as it respo... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | This Art Moderne service station located at 202 North Cascade Street was built in 1947. With its dramatically curved facade, it undoubtedly grabbed the att... |
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| Description: | View of a rural lake with a footbridge leading to a small island. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of U.S. Marshall Canon's summer cottage. The two-story cottage has an outdoor porch and is surrounded by trees. |
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| Description: | View of Clear Lake from shoreline. A small, tree-covered island is visible, with a tree-lined shore in the background. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | A group of men, women, and children gather for a picnic in the woods. A large picnic blanket covers the ground as the individuals pose for a photograph. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | A group of men, women, and children pose for a photograph as they relax in the woods around a large hammock. In the background is a shoreline. |
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| Description: | Three women, wearing dresses and bonnets, standing up in a small boat fishing. A tree-lined shore is visible in the background. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | A man carries a canoe on his shoulders while portaging through a thickly-wooded area. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the Dalles and the Saint Croix River with man in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of Harriman Avenue in the residential district. A little girl is standing with her baby carriage on the sidewalk between a telep... |
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