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Pendarvis and Trelawny Homes

Date: 1938
Description: The Pendarvis (left) and Trelawny (right) homes, before the Trelawny house was restored. Originally the homes were Cornish miner's cottages.
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Top Shaft

Date: 1945
Description: The top of the shot tower shaft with the entrance. The sign on the railing reads: "Do Not Throw Anything Down This Shaft".
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Moses Strong Residence

Date: 1940
Description: The home of Moses Strong, a prominent attorney, politician, speculator and land agent who moved to Wisconsin Territory and settled in Mineral Point in 1836...
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Summit Center Town Hall

Date: 1928
Description: The Summit Center Town Hall.
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Fort St. Antoine Site

Date: 1920
Description: Alleged site of Fort St. Antoine.
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Ceresco, Ripon, Wisconsin

Date: 1910
Description: Exterior view of "Long House," one of the buildings in the experimental communal colony of the Fourierites.
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Changing a Tire

Date: 1923
Description: Tire blowouts were a frequent hazard of early automobile travel.
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Fort Crawford Military Cemetery

Date: 1905
Description: Fort Crawford Military Cemetery, restored by the United States Government about 1905.
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Fort Crawford

Date: 1936
Description: Ruins of old Fort Crawford.
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Brisbois House

Date: 1940
Description: View of the front entrance to the Brisbois house.
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Monument

Date: 1915
Description: A monument erected to "the memory of our historic dead" erected by the Wau-bun Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1915.
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Canal Locks

Date: 1935
Description: A distant view of the canal locks.
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Airplane Crash in Lake Mendota

Date: 07 18 1944
Description: Dozens of boys at Camp Wakanda on the north shore of Lake Mendota watch rescue work on an airplane which has crashed into the lake near shore. Tom Langloi...
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View of Spring Tavern

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Description: View of the Spring Tavern, located on the way towards Verona, and its surrounding yard.
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Restored Spring Tavern

Date: 1940
Description: View of the Spring Tavern after its restoration by James Dickson.
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The Old Dells House

Date: 1925
Description: A copy of an older photograph by H.H. Bennett. The description reads: "With two women under trees in front of ruined building. The women are Mrs. Greene ...
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Crowd Outside the State Capitol at the Funeral for Glenn Frank Sr. and Jr.

Date: 09 18 1940
Description: Elevated view of the overflow crowd standing outside the Wisconsin State Capitol during the funerals for University of Wisconsin president Glenn Frank and ...
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Funerals for Glenn Frank Sr. and Jr. at the State Capitol

Date: 09 18 1940
Description: The caskets of University of Wisconsin president Glenn Frank and his son Glenn, Jr. are carried up the steps of the Monona Avenue entrance to the Wisconsin...
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Cottage Community

Date: 1971
Description: A cottage and trailer house community along a river. A Schlitz beer advertising is nailed to a tree and reads, "Move up to Quality / Schlitz / The Beer Tha...
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Sigurd Olson

Date: 1942
Description: Sigurd Olson standing in a Border Lakes Outfitting Company canoe.

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