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West Milwaukee Railroad Yard

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Description: Elevated view of the West Milwaukee shops of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad.
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Family Farm House

Date: 1879
Description: Harold and Gunhild Mickelson with five of their daughters (Bertha Mickelson Bragger and her husband are standing on the right), in Section 23 of the Town o...
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Kimberly-Clark Factory

Date: 06 16 1963
Description: View across parking lot towards the Kimberly-Clark Paper Company plant.
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Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Station

Date: 1956
Description: View across intersection of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad station at Blair and Wilson Streets. Three tall chimneys from the MG&E plant can be seen ...
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Family and Farmstead

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Description: A family stands in a field with a farmstead behind them. The farmstead buildings include a hops drying shed with a large round chimney, small log structure...
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Unitarian Meeting House Nursery School

Date: 06 28 1951
Description: Children playing outside the nursery school classroom at the First Unitarian Society meeting house while teachers are watching. The building was designed b...
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Unitarian Meeting House Nursery School

Date: 06 28 1951
Description: Children playing outside the nursery school classroom at the First Unitarian Society Meeting House. The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
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People Posed in front of G. Bashford Home

Date: 1878
Description: Two women and a man posed in the garden path of an L-shaped Greek Revival frame house. The front and back doors are open, revealing a breezeway straight th...
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People in front of House with Statue

Date: 1876
Description: Two men, two women are posing in front of a frame house that has a chair, sofa, table and a small white statue on its front porch. There are three doors an...
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Ashburn Family

Date: 1877
Description: The Ashburn family sits around a table in their yard. Behind them is a frame house with plants on its porch, curtains visible in its windows, and a pump by...
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Dry Milk Plant in Columbus

Date: 1926
Description: Dry milk plant with a very tall smokestack. Some trucks are parked on the left.
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Northern Transportation Company

Date: 1920
Description: A small cruise ship is anchored in front of Northern Transportation Company's office building along the Fox River.
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Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company Plant

Date: 10 02 1961
Description: View of the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company plant. The sky is cloudy and smoke obscures some of the stacks. Railroad cars can be are on the righ...
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124 Langdon Street

Date: 1924
Description: 124 Langdon Street, viewed from Lake Mendota. The house was designed by Madison architect Frank Riley and built in 1924 for the Kappa Sigma fraternity. T...
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Knapp, Stout and Company Lumber Mill

Date: 1899
Description: Elevated view looking north towards Menomonie, the Knapp, Stout and Company lumber mills.
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Kimberly, Clark, & Company Paper Mills

Date: 1910
Description: Paper mill, built in 1865-66 and called the Neenah Paper Mill; it was run by a stock copany composed of Nathan Cobb, president; Hiram Smith, secretary and ...
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Brickmaking Plant

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Description: Brick plant, possibly the one at Haley, six to seven miles up the river from Black River Falls. May also be a sawmill, as piles of lumber are in the foregr...
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Distant View of Factory

Date: 1955
Description: View from Oshkosh Avenue across icy river towards the Pluswood factory in the distance.
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Double Exposure with a Ho-Chunk Girl and Woman

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Description: Double exposure, one exposure of a studio full-length portrait of a Ho-Chunk girl posing standing in front of a painted backdrop wearing several necklaces,...
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Ho-Chunk Man and Women in Doorway

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Description: A Ho-Chunk man and two Ho-Chunk women are standing in front of the entrance door of a wooden building, probably the Mission. The man is wearing a suit, bow...

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