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West Bend Country Club

Date: 1960
Description: Text on reverse: "West Bend Country Club, West Bend, Wisconsin." Two buildings, trees and a pond at the West Bend Country Club. The front nine opened in 19...
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Enger-Kress Pocketbook Company

Date: 1902
Description: Text on front reads: "West Bend, Wis.,_______190___" with space for the date. An engraving of the Enger-Kress Pocket Book Company printed in blue ink. Orig...
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Enger-Kress Pocket Book Factory

Date: 05 10 1910
Description: The text on the front reads: "Enger-Kress Pocket Book Factory, West Bend, Wis." The sign on the roof of the building reads: "Enger-Kress Pocket Book Co." O...
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St. Joseph Hospital

Date: 02 13 1940
Description: Text on front reads: "St. Joseph Hospital, West Bend, Wisconsin." Built of brick in the Neoclassical style. A statue is on the lawn in front of the entranc...
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Main Street

Date: 08 05 1919
Description: Text on front reads: "Main St. West Bend, Wis." View down center of a busy street with businesses, storefronts, pedestrians and many parked automobiles. Si...
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Trinity English Lutheran Church

Date: 01 13 1955
Description: Text on front reads: "Trinity English Lutheran Church, West Bend, Wis." View from street of the brick, Gothic Revival church built in 1926.
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General Office Building and Factory

Date: 1958
Description: Text on reverse reads: "General Office Building and Factory, 1958. West Bend Aluminum Co., West Bend, Wisconsin." Aerial view of the West Bend Aluminum Com...
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Gonring's Resort at Cedar Lake

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Gonring's Resort at Cedar Lake near West Bend, Wis." Two-story clapboard lodging with a covered porch on the left. A rowboat is pulle...
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Dam on the Milwaukee River

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Showing the Dam of the Milwaukee River, West Bend, Wis." Elevated view of the West Bend dam with a brewery on the left in the backgro...
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Sailboat

Date: 07 19 1909
Description: A sailboat on a lake with a wooded shoreline in the distance.
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Tennis Court, Timmer's Shore

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Tennis Court, Timmer's Shore." Two men playing tennis on the lawn at a resort on Big Cedar Lake. Trees and the lake are in the backgr...
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Enger-Kress Pocketbook Company

Date: 10 19 1906
Description: The text on the front reads: "Enger-Kress Pocket Book Co., West Bend, Wis." The sign on the roof of the building reads: "Enger-Kress Pocket Book Co." Origi...
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German Reform Church and School

Date: 04 15 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "German Reform Church and School, Wayne, Wis." A Gothic Revival style church and school built of Cream Brick in 1878. Still in existen...
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Cottage Grove Silver Lake

Date: 1908
Description: Text on front reads: "Cottage Grove Silver Lake, Wis." A colorized view of cottages on the shore of a lake. Chromolithograph.
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Southeast Shore, Silver Lake

Date: 08 26 1908
Description: Text on front reads: "Southeast Shore, Silver Lake, Wis." Colorized view of rowboats docked around a pier on the shore of a lake. Chromolithograph.
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View of Silver Lake

Date: 1906
Description: Text on front reads: "View of Silver Lake." A colorized view of a man in a suit rowing a boat on a bay of a lake. Trees and a pasture are on the opposite s...
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Dry Fields

Date: 05 08 1986
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man driving a tractor across a field, sending dust clouds into the air. Caption reads: "Dry fields were evident as a farmer pre...
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Service Flag Dedication

Date: 11 01 1918
Description: Text on front reads: "Service Flag Dedication, Schleisingerville, Wis." The people of the town and uniformed nurses are watching as the soldiers are standi...
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Beautiful Nook of Oak Lodge

Date: 03 23 1908
Description: Text on front reads: "Beautiful Nook of Oak Lodge." A striped tent is pitched in the center of a clearing in the trees, surrounded by log cabins and a cone...
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Graded School

Date: 09 11 1908
Description: Text on front reads: "Graded School, Schleisingerville, Wis." A brick schoolhouse with arched windows and entrance, also a large belfry and ornate chimney....

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