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Grave of the Unknown

Date: 1975
Description: A veteran places a flower on the grave of an unknown soldier.
Photograph

Memorial Day Parade

Date: 05 28 1979
Description: A pair of boy and girl toddlers lead a part of the 33rd annual Memorial Day Parade on flag-bedecked tricycles.
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Planting Muskmelon Plants

Date: 05 24 1979
Description: Lyle Lurvey and Mrs. Lurvey on a tractor planting muskmelon on their farm near Highway 67, south of Dousman.
Postcard

Center Oak School

Date: 1971
Description: View from road across fence towards the Old Center Oak School in Monches. Snow is on the ground. Caption reads: "Old Center Oak School, Monches, Wis."
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.
Photograph

Stereograph View of Downtown Oconomowoc

Date: 1970
Description: Stereograph view of Oconomowoc.
Postcard

Koepsel House at Old World Wisconsin

Date: 1970
Description: Color photographic postcard of the Koepsel house being reassembled at Old World Wisconsin near Eagle. It is an 1860's half-timber farmhouse that was built ...
Map or Atlas

Village of Elm Grove, Wisconsin

Date: 1970
Description: This map shows lots, house numbers, institutional buildings, and cemeteries. The bottom of the map includes indexes to streets, points of interest and inst...
Photograph

Timber Construction Marks

Date: 10 15 1971
Description: Original timber construction marks on the first historic structure to be reconstructed at Old World Wisconsin, a Wisconsin Historical Society site.
Photograph

Ed and Marion Brumder

Date: 08 25 1978
Description: Edward John and Marion (Briggs) Brumder posing for a snapshot on their forty-sixth wedding anniversary. They are casually dressed and each is wearing and s...
Photograph

Graduation Barn Dance

Date: 06 09 1978
Description: Six children are standing and posing on a barn floor. Behind them in the hayloft, and sitting in the background near an open barn door are children and adu...
Photograph

Los Bailarimos Folkloricos de Waukesha

Date: 04 12 1979
Description: Several people in dresses are standing and holding up their skirts while dancing. Caption reads: "A dance group, the Los Bailarimos Folkloricos de Waukesh...
Photograph

General Store

Date: 1975
Description: Interior view of a general store. Items are stacked on the floor, tables and shelves.
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Woolly Harvest

Date: 06 1973
Description: A farm worker shearing a sheep in a shed to harvest its wool.
Photograph

First Snow

Date: 1975
Description: View through snow-covered cattails after a winter snowfall towards a house on the left, and a barn and a silo on the right.
Photograph

Tourists

Date: 07 1976
Description: Rear view of a group of tourists at Old World Wisconsin viewing a barn and other farm buildings.
Photograph

Out for the Season

Date: 1978
Description: A young man is sitting on a football in the grass with his head down resting on his arms which are crossed over his knees.
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Friendly Greeting

Date: 08 1975
Description: A teacher welcoming a kindergarten child on his first day of school with Mom adding moral support. The classroom is in Pewaukee Elementary School.
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Anticipation

Date: 1977
Description: A warmly dressed woman is walking past a display window featuring a mannequin in a one-piece swimsuit. The window has frost on it with a circular opening i...
Photograph

Breath Control

Date: 12 1976
Description: A man plays a Baritone Tuba for an old-time Civil War band. He is wearing a uniform.

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