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Okauchee House (Inn)

Date: 1936
Description: Okauchee House (Inn). View from the northwest.
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Spring Bank Monastery

Date: 1940
Description: Spring Bank monastery. Man kneeling in from of one of the Stations of the Cross. This is probably part of the Cistercian monastery. Caption reads: "Station...
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Group at Bethesda Spring

Date: 
Description: Group assembled at Bethesda Mineral Spring.
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Pewaukee Lake

Date: 09 04 1906
Description: Three boys on the shore of Pewaukee Lake. One boy is fishing, while the other two observe. A boat dock and boathouse are in the background.
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Lake La Belle

Date: 1870
Description: View from shore of sailboat anchored on the lake. There appears to be an island in the upper left.
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"Sunnybank"

Date: 1870
Description: A large, white brick building is in the middle center, surrounded by trees. A smaller white building is in the right background. In front of the building...
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Fred Essers Farm

Date: 1937
Description: Exterior view of a two-story house with several trees on the farm of Fred Esser. On the right is a barn with two silos. On the far left in a fenced area on...
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Hartland Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: Located at 252-256 West Capitol Drive, this Tudor Revival-style structure was built as a residence in the early 1920s and was altered a few years later by ...
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Summit Center House

Date: 1926
Description: A view of the front of large house with an open front porch, a front yard with mature trees, and a field beyond. The house features six over six window sas...
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Summit Center House

Date: 1926
Description: A side view from road of large brick house with an open front porch, surrounded by trees. There is a a rear wing and attached garage or shed.
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Waukesha Public Library

Date: 
Description: Exterior view of the Waukesha Public Library in winter. Reverse of cardboard backing reads: "1904, cost $15,000, Carnegie, C.C. Anderson, Arch." Above the ...
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Canterbury Hills Subdivision

Date: 1980
Description: Landscape view of a subdivision. In the center is an electrical meter, stone walls, and pine trees. In the distance are houses and telephone poles.
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Cleaning Cow Barn

Date: 12 11 1983
Description: Delmer Staus of Waukesha County shoveling contents of one of his cow barns into a manure spreader.
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Mayor's Summer Home

Date: 
Description: View across water towards the Mayor's summer home as seen from across Pine Lake. Children and adults are standing in front of the two-story dwelling. To th...
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Electric Wires and Railroad Tracks

Date: 03 1928
Description: Power lines along both sides of railroad tracks running through a rural area.
Postcard

Lutheran Church

Date: 08 1971
Description: Color postcard elevated view towards the altar of the Gethsemane Evangelical Lutheran Church. A Christmas tree is on the right.
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Hillcrest School

Date: 1933
Description: Students standing in front of Hillcrest School, a one-room school in Waukesha County.
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Ski Hill

Date: 02 08 1948
Description: "This ski hill was a popular attraction located near Oconomowoc. Ward Woltman of Oak Grove is on the jump."
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Ski Jump Competition

Date: 
Description: A man jumps off a ski ramp as many spectators look on.
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Waukesha County Highway Department Snow Plow

Date: 1937
Description: Winter scene with an International D-70 truck owned by the Waukesha County Highway Department and outfitted with a scraper clearing snow from a rural road.

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