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| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the chapel, centering on the altar, including religious artifacts, statues, and candlesticks,. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A crowd surrounds a 10-foot mechanical mannequin of Alice in Dairyland at an Alice display for the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. The Alice could raise h... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Sanctuary of Cistercian Monastery. Two men are kneeling down before the altar. Caption reads: "Sanctuary of the Cistercian Monastery, Okauchee, Wis." |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Dell View Hotel driveway on a winter day. A snow-covered stone gargoyle statue is in the foreground. The photo was taken by Ruth Bennett D... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Front entrance to Notre Dame Hall; taken at an angle. The name of the hall is above the arched doorway. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from street of the home of George Snyder at 1219 Ash Street. It is a large wooden Queen Anne-style house with a columned front porch and a corner towe... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from street of a dog sitting on the front porch of a large Victorian house at 127 Eleventh Street, the home of Dr. Clausen F. Stekl, a Baraboo dentist... |
| Date: | 10 27 1941 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of two women climbing on stalagmites in the Cave of the Mounds. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A large sink and hand water pump stand in a corner near a door of the laundry room at Black Point. The laundry was located in the "kitchen building" (demol... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Printed invitation announcing a meeting of the Lake Geneva Garden Club to be held at the home of Mrs. Alfred F. Madlener. It features a stylized drawing of... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Two-story home with a wrap-around porch. A bench is on the lawn. Caption reads: "Lake Beulah Home of John M. Volkhardts, East Troy, Wis." |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Hand-tinted postcard showing detail of the high altar at the church on Holy Hill. Caption reads: "High Altar, Holy Hill, Wis." |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of a sailboat on Lake Geneva. A woman is standing on the deck. Caption reads: "Sailing — at College Camp, Wisconsin On Lak... |
| Date: | 05 26 1947 |
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| Description: | View from above towards a rock formation surrounded by trees. The valley is below in the bakground. Caption reads: "Columbia County - Richmond Memorial Par... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A picturesque view of three people in a rowboat on Otter Creek, with Government Island in the background. A seal at lower right identifies Estberg Photo Se... |
| Date: | 09 06 1948 |
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| Description: | A postcard advertising the invention of the telecamera by William Pitt Fessenden in 1941 in Phlox, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Night view of the original Edgewater Hotel located on the corner of Langdon Street and Wisconsin Avenue on the south shore of Lake Mendota. Caption reads: ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Three views of Manitowoc Schools: Washington Junior High, Lincoln High, Woodrow Wilson Junior High. Caption at top reads: "High Schools of Manitowoc, Wis." |
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