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Aerial View of Hillsboro

Date: 1957
Description: Aerial view of Hillsboro.
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Aerial View of Hillsboro

Date: 1957
Description: Aerial view of Hillsboro.
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Barn Raising

Date: 1885
Description: Group of barn raising participants posed in front of the structure in progress.
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Barn Raising

Date: 1885
Description: Seated group of women and children participating in a barn raising.
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African American Woman

Date: 
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an African American woman in a formal dress seated on a sofa. Photograph was taken by Berdette E. Akin, w...
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Vice-Admiral Marc A. Mitscher

Date: 06 28 1945
Description: Vice-Admiral Marc A. Mitscher stands with his mother, Mrs. Oscar A. Mitscher (left), and smiles at his wife, Frances Smalley Mitscher, after a reunion at h...
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Vice-Admiral Marc Mitscher

Date: 06 28 1945
Description: Vice-Admiral Marc A. Mitscher sitting at the dining room table waiting for breakfast to be served to him, his wife Frances Smalley Mitscher (left), and mot...
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Bessie Hooker Grinding Poppy Seeds

Date: 06 28 1945
Description: With all Hillsboro striving to honor Vice-Admiral March A. Mitscher, who came for a visit with his mother, Bessie Hooker, a maid in the Mr. and Mrs. Lyle H...
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Hillsboro & Northeastern Railway No. 4

Date: 1925
Description: One of the locomotives from the Hillsboro and Northeastern Railway with the engineer leaning out of his window.
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Aerial Photographs of Hillsboro

Date: 04 27 1949
Description: Aerial view of Hillsboro.
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Leaning Barn

Date: 05 30 1965
Description: Exterior view of a leaning barn. Shadows from a farm machine fall on the barn's side wall in the early morning.
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Early Morning Fog

Date: 05 30 1965
Description: Fog settles among a line of trees in a valley. In the background, the tops of another line of trees is visible.
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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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Hillsborough Brewery and Brickyard

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Description: View looking down hill towards the buildings that make up the brickyard. Along the road between the brickyard and the brewery are a few men sitting in wago...
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Hillsboro Street Scene

Date: 1925
Description: Commercial street in Hillsboro. A row of cars are parked in the center of the street.
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Filling Station

Date: 1931
Description: A car parked under the overhang of a Mobiloil gas station.

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