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Creamery

Date: 1922
Description: Creamery and outbuildings in a rural area.
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Genoa

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Description: View of various buildings in Genoa. Behind the buildings is a tall rock formation covered with trees.
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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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Town of Victory

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Description: Elevated view form hill of the town of Victory on the bank of a river.
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Road Construction

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Description: Road construction just north of the Crawford-Vernon County line on State Highway 27, showing both the new and old routes. According to the caption on the ...
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Fishing Industry on Mississippi River

Date: 1907
Description: Fishing implements on the shoreline of the Mississippi River, and a bluff in the background. Caption reads: "Fish Industry, Mississippi River, La Crosse, W...
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Gothic-Roofed Barn under Construction

Date: 1933
Description: Exterior view of foundation and elaborate frame of a Gothic roofed barn, partially built.
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Public School — Construction

Date: 1922
Description: Construction workers pose at the entrance of the public school during construction.
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Ontario Street Scene

Date: 1921
Description: View down street with a restaurant and furniture store on the right. Automobiles are parked along the curb, and a street lamp is suspended from wires above...
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Red Mound Creamery

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Description: View from dirt road of a creamery. Two milk cans stand on a small loading dock. The road continues on through woods in the background.
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Depot and Train

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Description: View across snow between two sets of railroad tracks towards the Readstown Depot on a winter's day. Two trains facing in opposite directions are on the lef...
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Retreat Creamery

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Description: View across dirt road of a group of men posing with horses and wagons. One man stand on the loading dock. There is a tall smokestack on a section of the bu...
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Depot and Train

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Description: View down tracks towards a locomotive pulling a passenger train into the depot. A conductor stands in an open door. Another conductor and passengers stand ...
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Bottling House

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Description: The interior of the bottling house at Hillsboro Brewery. The bottling equipment is numbered 1 through 5 and the following description is included with the ...
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Hillsboro Brewery

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Description: Elevated view of the Hillsboro Brewery when it was operated by Joseph Buzucha in the early 1900's.
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Exterior of the Hillsboro Brewery

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Description: Exterior view of the Hillsboro Brewery when it was operated by Joseph Buzucha in the early 1900's.
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St. Joseph's Memorial Hospital Groundbreaking

Date: 08 07 1951
Description: Slightly elevated group portrait of people posed on and around a crane and waving at the groundbreaking ceremony for St. Joseph's Memorial Hospital.
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Hillsboro Mill

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Description: View from dirt road of a group of people (possibly employees) standing around the loading dock of the Hillsboro Mill. There is a steep, snow-covered hill i...
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Lakeside Mink Ranch

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Description: Aerial view of the Lakeside Mink Ranch, operated by Robert "Bud" Quinn. Spreading over 15 acres, the Ranch was one of the first operations to breed mink in...
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Hillsboro Canning Plant

Date: 1959
Description: An official and workmen at Hillsboro Canning Plant examining a a large truckload of corn as it's dumped into a huge unloading platform. The individuals pic...

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