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Filter: Creator Name of Cole, Harry Elsworth, 1861-1928
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The Stone Barn Tavern, located about three miles west of Milton. The three cottonwood trees in front of the tavern were brought from Vermont. There are sev... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A man enters the side door of the stone barn at the Stone Barn Tavern, three miles west of Milton. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Clothes dry on a line behind the Prairie House Inn north of Monroe. The house has an exposed stone lower level and a porch wrapping around the two sides w... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The Astor House hotel, with an automobile parked under trees on the left, and a large billboard for Wrigley's Spearmint gum on the right. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The barn of W.A. Dean, built in 1844 and used as a stage barn in the stage coach days. The barn's foundation, silo, and milk room are newer. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A wooden, two-story saltbox style building in an advanced state of neglect. |
| Date: | 08 04 1925 |
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| Description: | View from across street of three-story, classical revival, Bay State House. There is a side wing and a two-story porch across the front. An automobile is p... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | The dam and four-story wooden mill on the Baraboo River. A bridge crosses the river on the left. There are houses and commercial buildings in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across lake of a four-story wooden mill with two wings, one with an oriel window. There is a building with a cupola, probably a granary, behind the mi... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A dam and small mill building on the Willow River. The plant, built by Christian Burkhardt as part of the Burkhardt Milling and Electric Power Company, ope... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A large wooden building with side wing and covered porch, this mill was built in 1853-4 by Newell Dustin. There is a cupola behind the chimney. According t... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The three-story wooden mill building, built about 1848 by Snow and Walden. The building has twelve over twelve windows and an addition on the left. |
| Date: | 04 1926 |
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| Description: | Old stone mill, with a smaller wooden addition on the left. Water is passing through the flume. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Large wooden mill building. This mill was built in 1872 by Benjamin Boorman on the site of an earlier (1842) mill built by McNeil, Elmore, and McClure. The... |
| Date: | 07 02 1925 |
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| Description: | Charles E. Brown (pointing) and A.O. Barton, both of Madison, stand on a boardwalk at Blue Spring. The spring feeds the lake of the same name. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | An unidentified woman stands beside a stone spring house at a spring between Mt. Horeb and Black Earth. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Three unidentified men and a dog at a spring near the north shore of Lake Mendota. General Henry Dodge camped here in 1832, before the Black Hawk War. |
| Date: | 10 1924 |
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| Description: | J.R. Hastie stands beside a chain and crank operated pump at the pioneer well, "a few miles below Portage." |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man in a buggy stops to water his horse at an old trough in the middle of the road. There is a handbill on a utility pole on the left. |
| Date: | 07 22 1925 |
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| Description: | A large wooden classical revival style building with rear extension identified as the Dousman House, or tavern. "[It] stands a few miles east of Waukesha, ... |
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