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Brigham Farm Building in Ruin

Date: 06 1925
Description: View of three farm buildings - the one in the center is collapsing.
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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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Brule River Monument

Date: 1930
Description: Inscription of Brule River monument. Placed where the Brule River is crossed by the Memorial Highway from Superior to Brule and Ashland (Highway 2).
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Tank Cottage Broadside

Date: 1909
Description: View of the broadside of the cottage during warm season, with a few large deciduous trees casting shadows across the cottage, though it's a sunny day. On t...
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Tank Cottage with Two Little Girls

Date: 1909
Description: Exterior view of the cottage and porch. Two little girls in dresses stand in front of the cottage, posing for the camera. A bench stands on the porch. On t...
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Site of Old Helena Marker

Date: 1925
Description: View of a marker commemorating Old Helena.
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Crumbling Mine Building

Date: 1909
Description: A deteriorating mining building seen from across a field.
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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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Polperro House Kitchen

Date: 1940
Description: The kitchen in the restored Cornish miner's house, called Polperro, on Shake Rag Street. The house was temporarily covered with siding, but after restorati...
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Eddie Farm

Date: 07 26 1899
Description: View of the Eddie farm, later known as the Goodwin farm.
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Wisconsin Heights, Sauk City, Wisconsin

Date: 1896
Description: Elevated view. Caption on negative sleeve reads: "Black Hawk Battlefield. Wis. Heights. 'Looking it of west across river' [sic] c. 1896. Mrs. Charle...
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Wisconsin Heights, Sauk City, Wisconsin

Date: 1896
Description: Elevated view. Caption on negative sleeve reads: "Black Hawk Battlefield. Wis. Heights. Looking N. of E. up valley towards Catholic Church. Mrs. Charles N....
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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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Green Pea Combine

Date: 1969
Description: A pea combine in use on an unidentified Wisconsin farm.
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Hopson Plantation

Date: 1942
Description: Farm buildings stand in the distance at the Hopson Planting Company's plantation.
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Cotton Storage Bin

Date: 1942
Description: Piles of cotton fill a storage bin at the Hopson Planting Company plantation.
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Hopson Plantation

Date: 1942
Description: Several buildings on the Hopson Planting Company's plantation.
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Lincoln Monument

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Description: Rear view of Lincoln Monument on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The monument is at the top of Bascom Hill, with flowering bushes and trees sur...

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