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View of Brandon

Date: 1880
Description: Elevated view of town, including a church and multiple surrounding buildings.
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Site of Old Helena Marker

Date: 1925
Description: View of a marker commemorating Old Helena.
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Wilton

Date: 1900
Description: Wilton from across fields.
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Fox River From Catholic Church Hill

Date: 06 1898
Description: The Fox River seen from the hill behind the Catholic Church and looking toward the combined locks. In the distance is a paper mill.
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"Rock Church"

Date: 1910
Description: The "Rock Church". At this time there were only two churches in or near Livingston; one a Free Methodist and the other a Methodist Episcopal Church. This i...
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Post Office

Date: 1909
Description: Exterior view of a post office. Sign near door says: "Post Office. Sandusky." A man stands just outside the door, looking at another man standing inside.
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Seeing the Elephant

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Description: Children and adults watching the elephant at the Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo). This photograph was made by Harold Home as illustration for "Wisconsin: ...
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Cemetery Visit

Date: 1958
Description: Local historian William F. Wolf visiting the Native American cemetery. In the background is a barn and a silo and other farm buildings.
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Theodore Vinger Farm

Date: 1932
Description: The Theodore Vinger farmstead sits on gently rolling terrain. A painted sign on the large barn identifies the owner. At the time of the photograph, Martin ...
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Norman Peterson

Date: 1932
Description: Norman Peterson, age 11, holds the reins of a team of horses hitched to a harrow. He is a student at the Mud Branch School, District No. 2. On the reverse ...
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Sunny Peak Farm

Date: 1902
Description: View of Sunny Peak Farm, owned and operated by Adda Howie. There is a farmhouse, barn, outbuildings, and two windmills.
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Birds Eye View [sic]

Date: 1910
Description: Slightly elevated view of a town, looking down from a hill across a field, with railroad tracks curving from the right foreground to the left towards the t...
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Man Working at Trout Lake

Date: 
Description: A man is crouching and working on plantings at the nursery. A fence is in the background.
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Mary Livingston Griggs by the Tennis Court

Date: 1956
Description: Mary Livingston Griggs is standing next to the flowered edged fence of the Forest Lodge tennis court. Mary is wearing a dress with a short-sleeved cardigan...
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Snowy Entrance to Forest Lodge

Date: 02 1966
Description: Wrought iron gate suspended on two stone gate posts.

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