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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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J.K.P. Porter House

Date: 1865
Description: Family portrait of the Porters, standing in front of their log cabin with a horse.
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Child High School, Edgerton, Wis.

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Description: Front entrance to Child High School. A group of children are standing near the curb on the right. Caption reads: "Child High School, Edgerton, Wis."
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Boat Landing at Yosts Park

Date: 1908
Description: View towards people standing on the shoreline near a boat landing at Yosts Park. A man and a dog are standing on the pier, and a group of people are in a b...
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Raising the Flags

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Description: Two boys raise the United States and Wisconsin flags in front of their Rock County school.
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Martin House, 327 Milton Ave. Janesville

Date: 1919
Description: French Second Empire style, C. Loftus Martin House, 327 Milton Ave., built ca. 1868. Three children stand in yard. Richard Lloyd Jones was born in Janesvil...
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Third Wisconsin Civil War Veterans' Reunion

Date: 1915
Description: Third Wisconsin Civil War veterans' reunion, posed on the lawn in front of the Beloit Public Library.
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College Avenue

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Description: View of entrance to White Park from the intersection of College Street and Bushnell Street, which are unpaved. A young girl stands under the archway entran...
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Street Scene

Date: 1926
Description: View across street towards the Honeysett Oil Co. Filling Station, which is a two-story brick building. A woman and two children are on the stoop of a house...
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Frances Reneau and Her Son Thomas

Date: 05 13 1945
Description: Frances Reneau with her son Thomas on her lap seated on a lawn on a residential street. Mrs. Reneau wears a corsage on her lapel and the toddler, Thomas, h...
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Tobacco Farm Workers

Date: 1900
Description: Group of farm workers are standing and posing in a field while threading tobacco leaves on lathes for drying. Two children and a dog are standing in the ce...
Postcard

In The Park

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Description: A park with a gazebo and a rustic bridge over a stream. A boy is standing on the bridge, and another boy is standing below it behind the bank. Caption read...
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Beloit Tourism Center

Date: 1967
Description: View of the Beloit Tourism Center. Women and children are walking to and from the building. A child is drinking from an outdoor water-fountain (bubbler) on...
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Boy and Girl Filling Water Jug from Bubbler

Date: 1967
Description: A boy and a girl are filling a jug of water from the water-fountain (bubbler) outside of the Beloit tourism center.

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