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Fishing Dock

Date: 1938
Description: View from water of fishing dock and structure alongside; log buildings in background on shore. Possibly on shoreline of one of the Apostle Islands or on Ch...
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Aviation-Minded Governor

Date: 1928
Description: Walter J. Kohler, Sr., (partially hidden, wearing a straw hat and with a flower in his lapel) makes a stop to which he had flown in his airplane, the "Vill...
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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 ...
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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...
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Green Bay & Western Railroad Roundhouse

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view of the Green Bay & Western Railroad roundhouse.
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Railroad Employee Outing

Date: 08 26 1908
Description: Elevated view of the third annual outing of the employees of the Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company (TMERL) at Waukesha Beach.
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Fair Oaks Streetcar

Date: 1910
Description: An open streetcar labeled Fair Oaks sitting near Forest Hills Cemetery, which was then the end of the line. The motorman has been identified as Jack Schwen...
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Smith Cobblestone Inn

Date: 1933
Description: Southeast view of the Jesse Smith Cobblestone Inn.
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Chapel at Willerup Camp in Cambridge

Date: 1926
Description: Caption reads: "Chapel at Willerup Camp — Lake Ripley — Cambrdige. Wis." The camp was named for the Danish immigrant minister, Christian B. Willerup, who e...
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Castle Rock in Camp Douglas

Date: 1937
Description: Castle Rock. Castle Rock is an example of a monadnock or inselberg, a geological formation common in northern and central Wisconsin.
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Covered Bridge over Cedar Creek

Date: 1934
Description: Southwest view of a covered bridge over Cedar Creek, with a man walking in the snow nearby.
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Fort Howard Hospital

Date: 1934
Description: Fort Howard Hospital.
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Fort Howard Hospital

Date: 1936
Description: Fort Howard Hopital, with an antique dealer next door.
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Fort Howard Hospital, Surgeon's Quarters

Date: 1949
Description: Fort Howard Hospital, Surgeon's Quarters.
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Fort Howard Hospital

Date: 1934
Description: Fort Howard hospital, view from the southwest.
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Fort Howard Hospital

Date: 1925
Description: Fort Howard Hospital on the corner of Kellogg and Chestnut Streets.
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Fraser House

Date: 1935
Description: Front view of the James Fraser house.
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Rock River

Date: 1905
Description: Wagon bridge and dam on the Rock River at Monteray.
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Lowell Damon House

Date: 1935
Description: The Lowell Damon house, east elevation or front. Snow is on the ground.
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Mount View Sanatorium (South Park)

Date: 1925
Description: View of Mount View Sanatorium (South Park) in Barden Hospital for tubercular patients. Caption reads: "Mount View Sanatorium (South Park.)" Poem below read...

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