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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.
Photograph

Sears Farm

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Description: The home farm of Thomas and Adeline Sears.
Photograph

School Picnic

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Description: Mr. Spalding and Rev. Mr. Doane (with beard), posing outdoors with a group of children.
Photograph

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.
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Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Hand-colored image of field hands harvesting with cranberry rakes from a flooded cranberry marsh.
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...
Photograph

Neighborhood House Valentine Play

Date: 1925
Description: Cast members of a play staged for Valentine's Day, with costumed figures holding shields, a jester in a half-white and half-black costume, a woman with a c...
Book or Pamphlet

Eugenics Tree

Date: 1923
Description: Drawing of a tree with a banner over it reading Eugenics. The roots of the tree are labeled with sciences and fields connected to eugenics. Text on ...
Photograph

Driving Crew on the Logs

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Description: Driving crew posing on the logs. They are holding peaveys and cant hooks, tools used to move logs. The man on the left is holding a pail and the man in the...
Photograph

Boy on Clermont Street

Date: 1885
Description: View of Clermont Street with a young boy in the foreground, homes and trees in the background. Fences and sidewalks line both sides of the street.
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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

Woman in Carriage

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Description: An unidentified woman posing while sitting and looking through the open back of a carriage on a road.
Photograph

Boys Marching with "Guns"

Date: 1906
Description: Boys marching down a neighborhood street with toy guns. The leader is carrying a big stick. A boy in the back is carrying a flag.
Photograph

Trees and a Pond

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Description: View from shoreline of a pond. Trees are reflected in the water.
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Cows In a Stream

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Description: View from shoreline of a small group of cattle standing in a stream drinking water. There are trees and shrubs are along the opposite shoreline.
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Rocky Hillside

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Description: Elevated view of a hillside with trees, plants and grass, and a partially exposed face of eroded rock.
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Lake View

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Description: View of lake through trees along a shoreline. A ship is in the distance along the horizon.
Photograph

Road in Autumn

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Description: View down rural road lined with trees and rocks. The leaves have turned to autumn colors. There is a fence along the road on the right.
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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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