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First National Bank of Edgerton

Date: 04 17 1931
Description: Interior of the First National Bank of Edgerton, with customers and tellers in cages.
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First National Bank of Edgerton Officers

Date: 04 17 1931
Description: First National Bank of Edgerton officers, who witnessed robbery, posing and standing outdoors in front of the bank.
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First National Bank

Date: 04 17 1931
Description: A male cashier, with bandaged head, was injured in the robbery. He is standing outside of the bank that was robbed.
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Toledo Scale

Date: 06 08 1928
Description: Employee with a Toledo scale at the Fisher Body Co.
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Toledo Scale

Date: 01 08 1928
Description: Man using a Toledo scale at the Mernick Dairy.
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Toledo Scale

Date: 06 08 1928
Description: Man weighing container on Toledo scale at Janesville Pure Milk Co.
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Skavlem Family and Frame House

Date: 1875
Description: Family posing outdoors around a table in front of a frame house. There are two men with newspapers, girls with watermelon, and a woman on the porch of the ...
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Rural Telephone Operator

Date: 11 1954
Description: Henry Anderson runs a switchboard on his 90th birthday, with his smoking paraphernalia and a photograph of him at the switchboard on a table nearby.
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George W. Hall, Jr., Circus Performer

Date: 1868
Description: George W. Hall, Jr., noted Evansville, Wisconsin, circus performer, as a young boy, holding a snake and wearing copper-toed boots.
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Working at the Parker Pen Factory

Date: 10 16 1952
Description: A worker is using a machine to cut metal strips for fountain pen nibs at the Parker Pen factory.
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Bedroom at the State School for the Blind

Date: 1893
Description: Sleeping quarters at the State School for the Blind, with four single beds, a dresser, a chair, and a table.
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Recital Room at the State School for the Blind

Date: 1893
Description: Music recital room at the State School for the Blind with seven rows of seating, a piano and cello. Adorning the front wall is the Latin phrase "Lux Oritur...
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Weaving Room at the State School for the Blind

Date: 1893
Description: Several looms in the instructional weaving facility at the State School for the Blind.
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Wisconsin School for the Blind

Date: 1893
Description: Exterior view in winter of the Wisconsin School for the Blind. In the foreground is a gateway and fence.
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State School for the Blind

Date: 1893
Description: Interior of the State School for the Blind, perhaps a study or room for recreation. Included in the room are several tables with small models, a piano, and...
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Hops Field

Date: 1874
Description: Group of men, women and children gathered in a hops field, possibly that of Paul Saavles. The women are wearing hoods.
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K. Doxstad Family and Reverend Erik Jensen

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Description: In the foreground, Erik Jensen, a minister with his hat in hand, shakes K. Doxstad's hand. Nearby a toddler pulls his own baby carriage. Two carriages, a b...
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K. Doxstad Family and Reverend Erik Jensen

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Description: The K. Doxstad family is posed in their yard around a table covered with heavy books. A baby carriage is on the left and an older woman with her knitting i...
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Ole Ashburn and Wife Seated in Yard

Date: 1875
Description: This is identified as the Jacob Larsen farm, but pictured are Ole Ashburn and his second wife seated in the yard with a table between them. The frame house...
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Reverend Erik Jensen and Wife with Children

Date: 1875
Description: Twenty-one children are seated on wooden benches and the ground in front of a square frame house with a hip roof and cupola. The Reverend Erik Jensen (1841...

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