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Dancers at Hillside

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view of students at the Hillside Home School performing a may pole dance while an audience looks on. Dance instruction at the school was provided ...
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Dad's Bar

Date: 1940
Description: Customers standing outside the small bar are probably waiting to take the ferry across the river.
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Jacob Gasser Family

Date: 1898
Description: Group portrait of the Jacob Gasser family standing in front of the farmhouse at Tower Rock Farm.
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Pile Driver and Cenrifugal Pump at Prairie du Sac Dam Site

Date: 1911
Description: Steam-powered pile driver and centrifugal pump (in shed) at work at the Wisconsin River dam site. Men and children are watching the work.
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Family in Front Yard

Date: 1900
Description: The Bass farmhouse, originally owned by the photographer's father, Isaac Bass. Pictured are the photographer's mother, Lorinda Bass, brother Frank Bass hol...
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Steam Shovel in Gravel Pit

Date: 07 18 1913
Description: Workers and a boy, Edgar Walch, posing on and around a steam shovel in the quarry at Eagle View Bluff. Edgar's father, Engelbert Walch, owned the steam sho...
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Family Camping

Date: 1925
Description: A Native American (possibly Ho-Chunk) family rests at their campsite under a large tree. There is a bucket suspended over a small campfire.
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Swimming Pool

Date: 1940
Description: Children play in a large swimming pool with a stone changing house.
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Arms Family with their Horses

Date: 1960
Description: Bernard Arms (left) holds Lewis Arms's favorite horse Apache, upon whom Rita Arms (Witter) is seated. Behind them LuRay Arms sits on another horse holding ...
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Hops Picking

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Description: A large group of people including men, women and children gathered together for hops picking. They are pictured in the middle of a hops field with hops pla...
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Rephotographic Pair: Tower Rock Farm

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Description: A vintage view and a modern view of Tower Rock Farm, presented as a pair. The vintage view shows the Jacob Gasser family posing in front of the farmhouse. ...

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