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Battle Hollow Sign

Date: 1927
Description: View of the Battle Hollow sign along an unpaved road. In the distance on the left is a rock formation covered with trees. Sign reads: "Battle Hollow Clack ...
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Bad Axe Battlefield Site Marker

Date: 1930
Description: View of the historic site marker on Highway 35 indicating the location of Bad Axe Battlefield. Caption reads: "Tablet on Highway #35 * Victory, Wis."
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Hubert Humphrey Campaigning

Date: 1960
Description: Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota campaigning for the presidential nomination in southwestern Wisconsin. Humphrey stands at the historical marker in Co...
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Wesley Barton

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Description: Outdoor portrait of Wesley Barton, founder of Barton (now Burr), Corners.
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Rusk with Viroqua Leaders

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Description: Jeremiah M. Rusk, in black, standing on the porch of the C.M. Butt law office. They are, seated left to right, Judge Carson Graham, Judge James Evans Newe...
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Courthouse - Anaglyph

Date: 1885
Description: Stereograph view of the courthouse.
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Lewis Arms on a Sled

Date: 1957
Description: Winter scene with Lewis Arms sitting on a sled in the snow at his uncle Otis Arms's farm, Hillsboro (Vernon Co.), Wisconsin.
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Otis Arms

Date: 1957
Description: Otis Arms, uncle of Lewis Arms, poses in front of an automobile. He is dressed in a suit.
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Making Maple Syrup

Date: 04 1957
Description: LuRay Arms and Otis Arms tending a fire while making maple syrup outdoors.
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The Arms Men Making Maple Syrup

Date: 04 1957
Description: Three men from the Arms family making maple syrup outdoors. From left to right are: Lewis, Bernard, and Otis Arms.
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Gravestone of Walter and Ionie Arms

Date: 1960
Description: Walter and Ionie Arms's grave marker in the shade of a tall bush at the Burr Ridge cemetery.
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Group of Men and Boys Threshing

Date: 1900
Description: Group of men and boys threshing. They are using a tractor for a belt-driven threshing machine, and on the left two horses pull a wagon with large barrels.
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Rogers, Henry & Williams Billhead

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Description: Billhead of Rogers, Henry & Williams of Viroqua, Wisconsin, dealers in general merchandise, with a grimacing man in a jacket, vest, trousers, and top hat s...
Photograph

Shard and Sherman Waldon

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Description: Studio portrait of Shard and Sherman Waldon, twin brothers from the Cheyenne Valley settlement.
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Members of Shivers and Arms Families

Date: 06 02 1975
Description: A group portrait taken at the home of Alga Shivers. In front, from left to right, are: Alga Shivers (in overalls), his wife Flora Shivers, Minnie Drake, an...
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State of Wisconsin, County of Vernon, Town 13, Range 3 W, [Town of] Webster

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Description: This 20th century manuscript map, drawn on a printed township grid and copied from an 1878 map, shows landownership and acreages, roads, and streams in the...
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Colonel Cyrus Marion Butt

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Description: Quarter plate ambrotype portrait of Colonel Cyrus Marion Butt (b. 1833) of Viroqua. Col. Butt is seated sideways in a chair with one hand in his lap and on...
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Alhannon Butt

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Description: Sixteenth plate ambrotype quarter-length portrait of Alhannon Butt with hand-coloring on cheeks. Alhannon was from Viroqua, the brother of Col. Cyrus Butt ...
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Terraced Drainage

Date: 1936
Description: A level pasture terrace showing water in the channel. These terraces, largely experimental, are built on the level, drainage being provided for by means of...
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Road in the "Kickapoo Cut"

Date: 1920
Description: Road in the "Kickapoo Cut".

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