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Picnic at Pere du Sac

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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...
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...
Drawing

Waterfall at The House on the Rock

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Description: Black pen ink drawing on tracing paper of the exterior water feature. There are two rows of square glass windows on the Mill House, and tree trunks, shrubs...
Drawing

Moon Gate

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Description: Colored ink drawing on paper of the Moon Gate at The House on the Rock. Carefully matched and fitted stone forms a circular gateway. A cedar tree frames th...
Photograph

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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Cottage at Old Newport Resort — On Lower Dells — County Trunk A

Date: 1929
Description: Exterior view of a guest cottage surrounded by trees at Old Newport Resort.
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Telephone Pole in the Marsh

Date: 11 1961
Description: Telephone pole among marsh grasses and bare birch trees near the Spring Green Bridge.
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Tall Grass

Date: 1964
Description: Tall grasses in a shaft of sunlight.
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Ford in the Weeds

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

Date: 06 1961
Description: Rolling pasture hillside, late afternoon.
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Elderly Man Fishing

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view over water towards an elderly man using a long pole to fish from a steep rock ledge on the opposite shoreline.
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Man and Woman Seated on a Hillside

Date: 1898
Description: Man and woman seated on an overgrown hillside. The woman has ferns on her lap and is holding an umbrella. Inscribed on reverse of original mount: "B.D.L. a...
Photograph

Depot and Yards

Date: 1911
Description: View across railroad tracks of the Merrimac train depot. Against the building a man poses on top of a ladder. He is repainting the exterior. There is a hou...
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Baraboo Woolens Mill

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Description: View across river of Woolens Mill.
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Old Homestead at Bonnie View Resort

Date: 1930
Description: Cottage, with a spinning wheel on the porch, at the Bonnie View Resort near Devil's Lake.
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Entrance to Congress Hall

Date: 1925
Description: A man and woman pose at the wooden walkway among the rock formations of Congress Hall, on the Dell View Resort property.
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Scene at Congress Hall

Date: 1925
Description: Rock formations at Congress Hall on the Dell View Resort property.
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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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Mill Dam

Date: 1922
Description: View of a mill dam's pond with open area and hills in the background.
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School in Black Hawk

Date: 1925
Description: Exterior view of a school with a gable roof with bell steeple.

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