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Depot and Train

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Description: View down railroad tracks towards depot with railroad train pulling into the station. Passengers are waiting on the platform, and other people are standing...
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Borden Condensery

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Description: Exterior view of the Borden Condensery and grounds. Snow covers the ground. The right side of the building has two doors elevated above the driveway for a ...
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Looking East from Reeder's Corner

Date: 1912
Description: Street scene looking east from the corner of the Reeder's Hotel. Men stand near horses and wagons on the left near a sidewalk and storefronts. A small dog ...
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Bank Block

Date: 1912
Description: View across lawn of a commercial block, including the Farmers Merchants Bank, general store, and meat market. Horses and wagons, and an automobile are park...
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Merry Go Round

Date: 1932
Description: Children pose on a merry-go-round (carousel) in the Edgerton Public Park. The rear wall of a church forms the background, and there appears to be a bridge ...
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The Heritage Farm after the Tornado

Date: 09 21 1931
Description: View of damaged farmhouse and group of people sitting and standing outdoors. The roof was blown off and windows were shattered. Four women stand in the yar...
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Scene at Fred Coleman Farm — Tornado

Date: 09 21 1931
Description: View from road of storm damage to a farm. The barn roof has blown off. Men are working on the roof, which has exposed roof timbers. In the foreground are t...
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Memorial Day March

Date: 1920
Description: Small group of elderly men, two of them bearing, respectively, a U.S. Flag, and a banner, perhaps a company roster. This may be a group of Civil War vetera...
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Family Driving

Date: 1903
Description: George S. Parker and family seated in their car, one of the first automobiles in Janesville. Behind them is a couple in another car.
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Janesville Rotary Club Entertains University of Wisconsin, Beloit, and Milton College Foreign Students

Date: 02 11 1961
Description: Ninety-two foreign students attending the U.W., Beloit, and Milton Colleges representing 35 countries took buses to Janesville where they were guests of th...
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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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Horse-Drawn Hearses in a Funeral Procession

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Description: View from across unpaved street of four men with horse-drawn hearses lined up in front of an undertaking building. The other storefronts are a stable on th...
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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...
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Man Harvesting Corn with Farmall M Tractor

Date: 09 09 1948
Description: View across harvested field towards a man using a wagon and an ensilage harvester drawn by a Farmall M tractor on 132 acre farm of A.W. Reisseeum. In the b...
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Rock River at Koshkonong

Date: 03 2014
Description: View looking down slope towards ice floes drifting down the Rock River. The steel frame of a dock protrudes from the shoreline on the left, which has a cov...
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Jefferson Prairie Historic Marker

Date: 05 16 1952
Description: Great grandchildren of Ole Knutson Nattestad, the first Norwegian settler in Wisconsin, Sonja Kay and John Carlton, standing with their parents, Mr. and Mr...
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Jefferson Prairie Historic Marker

Date: 05 16 1952
Description: Judge Chester R. Christensen, Rock County Judge, speaking at the dedication ceremony of the Jefferson Prairie Settlement historical marker. Seated behind h...
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Selling Trump Merchandise

Date: 03 29 2016
Description: Two African American men are attaching buttons to a display on the hood of a car in a parking lot outside the Donald Trump rally. T-shirts and hats bearing...
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Trump Clothing and a Mask

Date: 03 29 2016
Description: A woman is standing behind her merchandise in a parking lot outside of the Janesville Donald Trump rally. She is wearing sunglasses, and a hat bearing the ...
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Man Selling Political Shirts

Date: 03 29 2016
Description: A man is posing for the camera in a parking lot holding up his merchandise while wearing a hat in red, white and blue that reads: "Trump 2016," and a white...

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