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Sinking Boat Quincy

Date: 1906
Description: Side view of the sidewheel packet, Quincy, sinking in 1906. Only her two upper decks are above water. Trempealeau Mountain is in the background. Lat...
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Sidewheel Packet Quincy Sinking

Date: 1906
Description: Sidewheel packet Quincy, sinking. Only her two upper decks are above water. Trempealeau Mountain is in the background. Later renamed the J.S.
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Steamboat Quincy

Date: 1906
Description: The Diamond Jo line steamboat Quincy, sunk in 1906 near Trempealeau Mountain, then raised and renamed J.S.
Postcard

High School

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view of the two-story brick High School building with basement. A bare flagpole is on the roof. Caption reads: "High School, Arcadia, wis."
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Beaver Creek Lutheran Church

Date: 1945
Description: View of a rural church on a hill and its adjacent cemetery. Beaver Creek Lutheran Church was or still is a Norwegian church.
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Alexander Arnold Farm

Date: 1900
Description: View of a brick dwelling, covered in ivy. A pine tree stands on the left, and assorted shrubs scatter the lawn.
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Marynook Novitiate

Date: 1940
Description: View across grounds, with trees and shrubs on the lawn, towards the Main building and dormitory with ivy on the corner.
Postcard

Ridge Street in Galesville

Date: 1910
Description: View down unpaved residential street with a large house on the right. An automobile is coming up the street. Caption reads: "Ridge Street Galesville, Wis."
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Court House

Date: 1920
Description: Elevated view of Whitehall from the Court House. A church is in the right foreground, and hills are in the distance. Caption at bottom reads: "Scene from C...
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Hopkins House

Date: 07 21 1946
Description: The residence of Johns Hopkins, an artist from Whitehall.
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Hopkins Gardens

Date: 07 21 1946
Description: The gardens behind the residence of Johns Hopkins, an artist from Whitehall.
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Vermont House

Date: 1914
Description: The Vermont House, a former tavern used as a residence.
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View from First Peak

Date: 1907
Description: Elevated view from first peak of Trempealeau, Wisconsin.
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Trempealeau

Date: 1920
Description: View down center of tree-lined road in Trempealeau. Commercial buildings are in the distance.
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Trempealeau

Date: 1920
Description: A view of Trempealeau.
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Melchoir House

Date: 1914
Description: The Melchoir house, later owned by C. Hudson.
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Melchoir House

Date: 1931
Description: Drawing of the Melchoir House, which was a popular hostelry and brewery operated by Jacob Melchoir. It later became an Indian boarding house.
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Wisconsin Highway Sign

Date: 1925
Description: Wisconsin State Highway sign along STH 11 near Galesville, one of a whole new vocabulary of signage created for automobile traffic. The inverted triangle w...
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View of Perrot State Park

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view of Perrot State Park (Trempealeau vicinity) looking west from Brady's Bluff toward the Mississippi River and Minnesota. Railroad tracks run a...
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Mt. Trempealeau, Perrot State Park

Date: 1930
Description: Aerial view looking east at Mt. Trempealeau from Brady's Bluff in Perrot State Park. The Mississippi River is visible along the bluffs at upper left, and t...

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