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Wade House

Date: 1858
Description: Ambrotype of the Wade House, a carriage inn located in Greenbush, also showing a section of the original plank road in the foreground.
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Second and Third Capitols and Wisconsin Avenue

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Description: A view looking south down Wisconsin Avenue toward the Capitol Square where portions of the second and third Wisconsin State Capitols are visible. This pers...
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Tallman House

Date: 08 1952
Description: View of Tallman House from driveway.
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Baby Clinic

Date: 1921
Description: A mother and infant in a baby carriage pose at the end of a row of wicker baby carriages in front of what is probably the Neighborhood House.
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House with Fence

Date: 1907
Description: View up dirt road or track towards a two-story L-shaped frame house with a fence along the front. The right end of the house has a roof suspended over the ...
Postcard

Post Office

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Description: View from across the street with pedestrians walking on the sidewalk in front. Caption reads: "Post Office, Milwaukee, Wis."
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Children in Doorway of Cabin

Date: 1917
Description: Three children peek out of the door of a log cabin. There is an ash can to the right of the door.
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Joe Bear Heart near Table of Drying Corn

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Description: Lantern slide of a Ho-Chunk man wearing a hat posing standing behind a table loaded with kernels of corn on a cloth drying by a wooden building. The man is...
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Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Hand-colored image of a Wisconsin cranberry bog and harvest. Men are harvesting in the flooded cranberry marshes.
Manuscript

Griggs Album: Kindergarten Goes to Vilas Park

Date: 06 1925
Description: Children posing in the back of an open truck wagon in front of the Neighborhood House Infant Welfare Clinic. The wagon is marked "Frautschi". This is the f...
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Boys' Woodwork Group at Neighborhood House

Date: 1923
Description: Group of boys at a woodworking session in the basement shop at Neighborhood House, with boys posing with various tools and planks of wood. In the far backg...
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Rex Magnus Club

Date: 10 09 1887
Description: A large group of men pose outside the Rex Magnus Club. Some of the men on the left are holding musical instruments. The words "Rex Magnus" are on the roof.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Keystone Farms

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Description: View of barn, house, and outbuildings at Keystone Farms, owned by Owen W. Rolands.
Photograph

J.E. Rhodes & Co., Pork and Beef Packers

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Description: View from street of the front of the J.E. Rhodes & Co., Pork and Beef Packers building on Main Street. A group of men, with a cat and a dog, are posing in ...
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C.E. Morgan Dry Goods Bazaar

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Description: View from street of the C.E. Morgan Dry Goods Bazaar on North Pinckney at East Mifflin. Two women are standing in the doorway on the left, and two men are ...
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Road Through a Forest

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Description: View from side of tree-lined road towards a gate in a stone wall further down on the right.
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East Main Street Looking S.E.

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Description: View across East Main Street towards a row of businesses, looking southeast. From the left, the corner building has a tobacco shop with a law office above,...
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Water Rushing Over Rocks and Part of Dam

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Description: View across water looking up towards waterfall in a river, surrounded by trees. There are wood posts, perhaps part of a dam, along the top of the waterfall...
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Landscape with Bluff and House

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Description: View across a field towards a tall bluff. On the right is a house and barn at the base of the rock formation.
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Bridge Over a River

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Description: Elevated view from shoreline of a river with an iron bridge over it. Buildings are on the far shoreline near fields, and tree-covered hills are in the dist...

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