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Homer Bigart

Date: 1948
Description: Homer Bigart, (1907-1991) award-winning journalist with the "New York Herald-Tribune" and the "New York Times" with two unidentified individuals. There is ...
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Cross Plains Railroad Station

Date: 1905
Description: View towards railroad station with a few passengers on the platform awaiting the arrival of the train. The locomotive is billowing smoke. Two horses stand ...
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State Fish Hatchery

Date: 1915
Description: View of the State Fish Hatchery, surrounded by a lawn planted with trees. A wide sidewalk leads up to the entrance. The sign on the front of the building r...
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Millpond in Cross Plains

Date: 1915
Description: Millpond with several buildings and horses in the middle ground, and more buildings in the background. Trees are visible throughout. Text at lower left rea...
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Round Barn

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Description: View across field of a round barn with cows grazing in the pasture in front. Built by John Warren, Menominee.
Drawing

Platteville Brewery

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Description: An engraving based on a drawing by Alexander Simplot of the Platteville Brewery (spelled Plattville). It is an elevated perspective showing the main buildi...
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Bridge Boat Landing

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Description: Bridge boat landing, with a dog standing in the foreground near a shoreline with a pier and a boat. There is a bridge across the water on the left, and tre...
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Mrs. Saxon and Horse Trixie

Date: 1919
Description: Mrs. Saxon in buggy with umbrella being pulled by her horse named Trixie.
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Seminole Family

Date: 1904
Description: A large Seminole Native American family posed outdoors as a group, including men, women and children who are all wearing Seminole native clothing. There ar...
Photograph

Group Portrait of Adams Family

Date: 1900
Description: Group portrait of Adams family seated outdoors on patio of home. Group includes Cyrus H. Adams, Sr., Emma (Blair) Adams, Mary (Shumway) Adams, Ruth Campbel...
Photograph

Waiting for Bass Run

Date: 1936
Description: Elevated view of people in a park along the shoreline waiting for the White Bass run.
Photograph

Edna Leonard

Date: 1932
Description: Edna Leonard, a student at Northey School, poses on a horse on the Fred Leonard farm. There is an automobile and other horses in the background, as well as...
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Wagons Carrying Boiler

Date: 1922
Description: Men on wagons carrying large boiler, etc., posing in sham-battle horseplay, probably in Cross Plains. In the background is a bluff.
Postcard

Postcard from Sister Bay

Date: 1909
Description: View of Main Street, Sister Bay, looking downhill. Caption reads: Main Street, Sister Bay, Wis."
Photograph

Ducks Unlimited Releasing Ducks

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Description: Members of Ducks Unlimited releasing ducks from cages as part of their conservation efforts. A woman is holding a duck in her hands as four men watch.
Photograph

Moose at Lake Sturgeon

Date: 1911
Description: View from a canoe of a moose feeding in the waters of Sturgeon Lake. The prow of the canoe is in the foreground.
Photograph

W.A. Holt and G.F. Loomis with the Catch of the Day

Date: 08 14 1911
Description: W.A. Holt (far left) and G.F. Loomis (far right) are holding up a string with the catch of the day. Standing between Holt and Loomis are: (left to right) N...
Photograph

After: Drinking Fountain Put in by Oconto Women's Club

Date: 1916
Description: View of the new stone-hewn drinking fountain for horses at the junction of Chicago and Main Streets. A girl is running in the street toward the camera. Sma...
Photograph

Parade Float

Date: 10 20 1915
Description: View of a group of mostly women riding on a horse-drawn parade float. The letters "OW" and "WC" are written with flowers on the horse blankets. Several wom...
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Spotty Gets a Bath

Date: 1911
Description: The children are giving a bath to the Holt family dog named Spotty who is standing in a wash tub. Philip Smith is laying his hand on Spotty's back. Alfred ...

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