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Fur Trading Post

Date: 1833
Description: Illustration of the Solomon Juneau fur trading post at Milwaukee in 1833.
Photograph

Lumber Camp Bunkhouse

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Description: Loggers gathered in the bunk house. Boots and socks dry above the stove.
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Crowd Gathered to Watch International Harvester Film

Date: 07 07 1929
Description: Rural farming crowd gathered to watch an International Harvester film on the side of a barn. The event was staged by J.H. Matthews, an International Harves...
Photograph

Woman in Garden

Date: 1919
Description: Woman handling tomato plants in a vegetable garden.
Photograph

Children in Garden

Date: 1919
Description: Two young girls holding up plants from a vegetable garden. Houses are in the background.
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol (Third) Demolition

Date: 1906
Description: Only the salvaged planking behind the "Forward" statue created by Jean Pond Miner indicates that anything more is going on in this picture than a peaceful ...
Photograph

Railroad Track Clean-up

Date: 1910
Description: Wisconsin Central Railway locomotive #2035 and a work train on a track clean-up assignment. Locomotive #102 was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 18...
Photograph

Railroad Employees at Waukesha

Date: 1915
Description: Employees of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway in the company's Waukesha office. Left to right they are Carl Mix, Ruth McGeen, Clarence Mica (seat...
Photograph

Camp 20

Date: 1900
Description: Portrait of two men sitting in a room lined with bookshelves. There is a banjo leaning in the corner next to a window.
Photograph

Ondossagon

Date: 1920
Description: View of Ondossagon, a consolidated school. View across lawn towards a large group of people standing near horses in front of the building.
Photograph

Dahl Residence

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Description: View of the M.K. Dahl residence with several children and adults standing in front of it along a fence.
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Dahl Residence

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Description: Slightly elevated view of the M.K. Dahl residence. People are posing in the yard. There is a barn in the background on the left.
Photograph

Dahl Residence

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Description: View from street towards the M.K. Dahl residence, with several children seated on the front porch, and a woman standing on the left.
Photograph

Rundell Residence

Date: 1890
Description: Exterior view of the home of Samuel Rundell, with a large group of people assembled on the lawn in front of the house.
Photograph

Jenifer Street House

Date: 1899
Description: Exterior of a house at 1030 Jenifer Street, built in 1883-84 with a family sitting on the front porch.
Photograph

Taliesin

Date: 1930
Description: Exterior view of Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's residence and studio. Frank Lloyd is walking with a cane in the foreground. Taliesin is located in the vici...
Photograph

Farm Women Class

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Description: Summer camp for Wisconsin farm women on the grounds of the Wisconsin State Fair, with Wisconsin home economics leader Nellie Kedzie Jones. Mrs. Jones is pr...
Photograph

Blister Rust Eradication Staff

Date: 08 1935
Description: William Cowan, the white pine blister rust control foreman on the Menominee Reservation, with his two assistants, Joseph Dodge and Leo Waukechom (right).
Photograph

Celebration at Home of Mary Virginia McCormick

Date: 1923
Description: "Kildare", home of Mary Virginia McCormick. A large crowd is gathered on the lawn in front of the house, possibly as part of a birthday celebration for Mar...
Photograph

Mitchell-Rountree House

Date: 1930
Description: View across lawn towards the Mitchell-Rountree house. People are standing on the front steps of the house on the far right.

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