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Map or Atlas

Map of Delton Township

Date: 1922
Description: A plat map of the township of Delton near the Wisconsin River.
Map or Atlas

Westfield Plat Map

Date: 1922
Description: A plat map by Westfield created by George A. Ogle & Co.
Photograph

Wisconsin Granite Company — Crushing Plant

Date: 1910
Description: View down two sets of railroad tracks. There is an empty cart on the left set of tracks, and one cart full of large pieces of stone on the right set of tra...
Photograph

Wisconsin Granite Company — Granite Quarry

Date: 1910
Description: View across the bottom of a quarry toward a group of men posing around a horse who appears to be pulling an open railroad car on railroad tracks. Steep cli...
Photograph

Wisconsin Granite Company — Power House

Date: 1910
Description: View down railroad tracks toward a group of six men posing outdoors at the power house. There is a pile of large rocks near the group of men at the corner ...
Photograph

Picnic at Pere du Sac

Date: 
Description: Three women and two men are sitting around a picnic lunch, which is placed on a cloth. A caption identifies three of the people as "Louis and Julia Shepard...
Photograph

Picnic at Pere du Sac

Date: 
Description: Three women and two men posing against a car. The car is parked near some trees and overlooking a body of water. A caption identifies four of the people as...
Historical Object

Effy Beer Label

Date: 1992
Description: A beer label featuring "Effy" Fine Beer, brewed by the Effinger Co., with a character wearing a uniform serving beer on a tray. The label also reads: "In t...
Historical Object

Badger Brew Label

Date: 
Description: A beer label featuring the name "Badger Brew Pilsner Beer" inside the shape of the state of Wisconsin. The label is black, white, and red.
Postcard

Congress Hall

Date: 1907
Description: Handwritten on front: "'Congress Hall.' Vicinity of Mirror Lake. Delton Wis." View of a narrow passage through rock formations at Congress Hall, on the Del...
Photograph

Mary Burke and Jane Matteson

Date: 06 1996
Description: Mary Burke and lifelong friend Jane Matteson sitting in a covered golf cart during a tour near Spring Green, Wisconsin during Mary's 80th birthday celebrat...
Photograph

Norman Wiese on Location for "The Emigrants"

Date: 09 1969
Description: Close-up of a man wearing a conductor's hat. A train is in the background. Caption reads: "Norman Wiese, North Freedom, Mid-Century RR Museum. Was also in ...
Photograph

Liv Ullmann and Max Von Sydow on Location for "The Emigrants"

Date: 09 1969
Description: Actors Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow posing while seated on the grass with plates of food and drinks. They appear to be in costume. Caption reads: "Liv Ull...
Postcard

Tower Hill

Date: 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Tower Hill, Spring Green, Wis." View across water towards a rocky formation along the Wisconsin River in Tower Hill State Park.
Postcard

Greetings from Spring Green

Date: 1950
Description: Text on front reads: "Greetings from Spring Green." On the reverse it reads: "Be It Ever So Humble..." A Native American man dressed in indigenous clothing...
Postcard

Schwartz Bros. Ginseng Garden

Date: 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Schwartz Bros. Ginseng Garden." On reverse it reads: "A small corner in our Ginseng Garden, showing our five-year-old plants. From fo...
Postcard

Wisconsin River Bridge

Date: 1950
Description: Text on front reads: "Wisconsin River Bridge, Spring Green, Wis." A truss bridge with eight spans over the Wisconsin River on State Highway 14. The bridge ...
Postcard

Ann Mitchell Library

Date: 1922
Description: Text on front reads: "Ann Mitchell Library-Tower Hill, Wis." A one-story, wooden building with a wrap-around veranda and broad front steps surrounded by tr...
Postcard

Lovers Lane

Date: 08 14 1929
Description: Text on front reads: "Lovers Lane, Sauk City, Wis." An unpaved, rural road with a wooden guard rail on both sides. A sign reads: "Automobiles Go Slow." Beh...
Photograph

Eduard and Elise Schroeder

Date: 1870
Description: A stereograph of a bearded man, seen in profile, and a woman, looking directly at the camera, posing near a picket fence. There is a small wood frame house...

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