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Four Union Soldiers with a Flag

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Description: From "Illustrations of Camp Life" with four soldiers of the 97th New York Volunteer Infantry with a unit flag.
Photograph

Methodist Parsonage

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Description: A Methodist Episcopal parsonage on Park Avenue and Water Street.
Postcard

Sanitarium

Date: 1905
Description: Exterior view of the Prairie du Chien Sanitarium. Established in 1903, it became a general hospital in the 1930s. A group of people are posing on the lawn ...
Photograph

Farmers Club Meeting

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Description: Community Fair of the Bashaw Valley Farmers Club. E.L. Lutcher, head of the farmers institutes program of the agricultural extension, described the area a...
Photograph

Max Pollack, Robert Bloch, Harold Gauer, and Milt Polland

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Description: Group portrait of the total team working on the election campaign of Carl Zeidler. Max's nickname was "Max the Axe." Milt Polland always wanted to be photo...
Painting

The Country Store

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Description: View of a country store in autumn. A man driving a horse-drawn wagon hauls full milkcans in the foreground and, to the right, several families are hauling ...
Photograph

Wisconsin Worker's Alliance Float

Date: 05 01 1938
Description: The Wisconsin Worker's Alliance May Day parade float. The float has three workers on it with tools and signs read "Roosevelt's Recovery Program: Never More...
Photograph

Company Unions Memorial Float

Date: 05 01 1938
Description: May Day parade with a closeup of a "memorial" float for company unions. A man leans on the parked float. The float features a faux grave and the gravestone...
Photograph

Fairbanks School

Date: 1931
Description: A simple sign over the front door identifies the one-room Fairbanks School. A flag hangs from a pole mounted on the roof. The top of the door is ornamented...
Photograph

Truax Field Honor Guard Leads Truax Contingent on Armed Forces Day

Date: 05 16 1953
Description: View down the 700 block of State Street towards the Truax Field Honor Guard marching past the State Barber Shop on Armed Forces Day. Park Street and the bo...
Photograph

Angle Worm Station, Lake Monona

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Description: View from shoreline of four boats at the dock for Angle Worm Station: "Tonyawatha," "Lakeside," "Winnequah" and "Monona." People are posing on the boats. A...
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Lake Monona Steamers

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Description: View from water towards shoreline of Lake Monona steamers "Tonyawatha" and "Winnequah" moored at the Angle Worm Station pier. There is a man standing in ea...
Book or Pamphlet

The Shore Path, E.G. Uihlein's

Date: 1905
Description: Halftone print of the landscaped shoreline and path at Forest Glen, the estate of Edward G. Uihlein, on the western end of Geneva Lake. A flag flies above ...
Photograph

Odanah Indian Fair

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated group portrait of men, women and children posing at the fairgrounds at Odanah. Most of the people are Native Americans, probably Ojibwe, with a nu...
Photograph

Judging Corn

Date: 1920
Description: A group of Native American men, women and children are posing around a table piled with ears of corn in front of a stage in an auditorium. Several of the m...
Photograph

Display at Odanah Fair

Date: 1930
Description: Farm produce, including potatoes, cauliflower and cabbage, displayed on a stand decorated with stars and stripe bunting. Preserves and potted plants are on...
Photograph

Draft Horses

Date: 1920
Description: A man in a suit, with his back to the camera, is inspecting one of four draft horses. Other men are holding the horses, which are harnessed with horse coll...
Photograph

Decoration Day

Date: 05 30 1912
Description: Three girls are decorating Lucy Rumsey Holt's electric car with American flags for Decoration Day, possibly for a parade. Jeannette Holt is on the left. Sp...
Photograph

Fourth of July Fireworks

Date: 07 04 1912
Description: Alfred Holt is setting off some firecrackers while his sisters and several cousins are watching. Names from left to right: Elizabeth Doud Rumsey, Marion Ed...

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