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William Kohlmeyer's Barn

Date: 1910
Description: Side view of a barn, with a ramp leading up to its door. A windmill is on the left just behind a wagon loaded with bins or barrels. Other farm buildings ar...
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...
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Sauk City

Date: 1900
Description: A Sanborn fire insurance map of Sauk City created in 1900.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Sauk City

Date: 1915
Description: A Sanborn fire insurance map of Sauk City created in 1915.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Sauk City

Date: 1900
Description: A Sanborn fire insurance map of Sauk City created in 1900.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Sauk City

Date: 1892
Description: A Sanborn fire insurance map of Sauk City which was drawn up in 1892.
Photograph

Lumber Pile

Date: 1911
Description: Stack of logs with the caption "Piles to be used for extending R.R. to dam site."
Photograph

Reedsburg Mill Independence

Date: 04 1954
Description: Several men are standing and sitting around a desk, where one man is signing a document. A calendar for the Norris Wholesale Corporation is on the wall beh...
Photograph

Ott Family

Date: 1919
Description: The extended Ott family posing in front of a woodpile of split and cut wood stacked against a log barn located on the Ott farm. The man is adjusting his gl...
Postcard

Elevated View of Baraboo River

Date: 1909
Description: Elevated view of the Baraboo River. The main part of town is on the far left shoreline. On the right industrial buildings are near a bridge spanning the ri...
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1922
Description: A view of the public school, a wood building with two front entrances and a belfry. A flagpole, a pile of fuel wood and a seesaw on the left. Surrounded by...
Photograph

Group in front of General Store Counter

Date: 
Description: A general store counter at Weigands Bay. Two women are behind the counter, with boxes of cigars on display behind them. Other canned goods are on the shelv...
Photograph

Ford in the Weeds

Date: 1962
Description: Old Ford coupe in a farm setting.
Photograph

Sauk County Conscripts

Date: 05 27 1918
Description: A group of more than 70 draftees poses on the steps of the Sauk County Courthouse on the day they left Baraboo for Camp Grant near Rockford, Illinois. Most...
Photograph

New Power Dam

Date: 1913
Description: Elevated view of a power dam on the Wisconsin River under construction. There is a rowboat in the foreground. On the opposite shoreline are trees and bluff...
Photograph

Scene on Main Street

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of Main Street, with industrial and commercial buildings. Cars are parked at the curb towards the far end of the street, and fields and tree-...
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1928
Description: Facade of brick building, with stone steps and a columned entrance. On the left near the corner of the building is a cart, and along the side there appears...
Photograph

Old and New School Building

Date: 1924
Description: Children play on makeshift seesaws created from construction materials outside the old schoolhouse.
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Workers in a Large Quarry

Date: 1911
Description: View of workers in a large quarry in Ableman. Several male workers are standing in the quarry among piles of rock with their work equipment.
Photograph

Ringling Hotel

Date: 1940
Description: View from across street of a shirtless young man standing beside an automobile in the shade of a lean-to attached to the old Ringling Hotel. Signs on the t...

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