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| Date: | 07 15 1948 |
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| Description: | A Mexican woman and her six children are standing on the porch of the multiple-family housing provided to them by the pea cannery for which their husband a... |
| Date: | 05 18 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of wreck of a Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad freight train. The derailment is so severe that the train station has been knocked off... |
| Date: | 05 03 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a Chicago and Northwestern passenger train, which is the first across a new bridge in Sheboygan. There is a group of people standing near ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Lake Seven, surrounded by trees. Agricultural fields fill the foreground. Another lake is in the upper right. Caption reads: "Lake Seven Ade... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | The Waelderhaus, a memorial planned for John Michael Kohler. Waelderhaus is a replica of his family's home in Austria. An Austrian architect was brought ov... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Side view of German grandmother using spinning wheel to spin yarn. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A map shows early settlers by name and date, industries, the Chicago & North Western rail line, roads, and depths and net lines in Lake Michigan. Text prov... |
| Date: | 04 1948 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Caroline Meyer, 88, being crowned as queen of the day at the centennial program of the Town Mesne Farm Bureau. Mrs. Meyer was honored as the oldest mo... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | This map hows block and lot numbers, water mains, roads, parks, the Sheboygan River and some landownership. |
| Date: | 06 1942 |
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| Description: | Fourteen Boy Scouts are sitting in a circle in a clearing at Terry Andrae State Park. One boy on the right is older and is shirtless. There are picnic tabl... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A young boy wearing knickers, high stockings and a jacket is watching two swans on the Mullet River. A bridge and the rear of commercial buildings are in t... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Benedict's Heidelberg Club, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Benedict's Heidelberg Club, the showplace of the Northwest, is a truly beautiful re... |
| Date: | 07 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Two outhouses and another building are in a field, with a water pump in the left foreground. Caption reads: "This Press picture shows the water supply and ... |
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