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Man Using Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1918
Description: Man operating a horse-drawn mower in a field. The horse on the left is wearing blinders.
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Man Sitting on Porch

Date: 1915
Description: View from yard of man sitting and reading a newspaper or magazine in a rocking chair on the porch of a house.
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Northwood's Beach Hotel Lake Court Oreilles

Date: 1931
Description: View down drive towards lake. The front porch is behind a grove of trees where automobiles are parked out front of the Northwood's Beach Hotel on Lake Cour...
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Log Cabin Smead's Cloverleaf Lodge on Teal Lake

Date: 1936
Description: View across field of a one-story log cabin, Smead's Cloverleaf Lodge, across Teal Lake. There is a wooden dock across the lake in front of the lodge and a ...
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Mary Alden, Bessie Love, and Wilfred Lucas in "Acquitted"

Date: 1916
Description: Mrs. Carter (played by Mary Alden) and her daughter Helen (Bessie Love) try to comfort John Carter (Wilfred Lucas) their unemployed breadwinner in this sce...
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George Stone and Norma Talmadge

Date: 1916
Description: The child actor George Stone is embraced by Norma Talmadge in a scene still perhaps from the 1916 silent film "Martha's Vindication." Other films in which ...
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Spectators Watching Native American Dance

Date: 1930
Description: View of a Native American man dancing and wearing traditional dress and a headdress. A group of younger boys, some wearing traditional dress, watch him fro...
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Native American Gathering, Pow Wow

Date: 1930
Description: View of five men wearing hats sitting outside in a circle around a drum while six other men dressed in Native American clothing are standing behind the sea...
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Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Lucy Martinelli Sewing

Date: 1939
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with Lucy Martinelli stitching a seam using an elaborately decorated electric sewing machine. Sewing cla...
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School Picnic

Date: 06 30 1905
Description: Group portrait of a Muscoda Public School picnic. Emma Schmitt (later Mrs. Sherwin Gillett) is on the far left of the top row. The 1905 Wisconsin Census ha...
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Family Gathering at Rufus Gillett's

Date: 1919
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the extended Gillett family taken at the home of Sherwin's brother, Rufus.
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Railroad Wreck

Date: 1900
Description: View looking down at men gathered at railroad wreck The locomotive is on its side, and the freight cars are demolished.
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Donald Hall, Naomi Childers, and Antonio Moreno in a scene still.

Date: 1915
Description: Donald Hall, wearing a straw boater and bow tie, Naomi Childers, in white with a scarf, and Antonio Moreno, dressed as a gypsy, in a scene still from the 1...
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Family Driving

Date: 1903
Description: George S. Parker and family seated in their car, one of the first automobiles in Janesville. Behind them is a couple in another car.
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Men Standing by Brendemuel's Feed Mill

Date: 1905
Description: Fred Brendemuehl and Emil Lubich in front of Brendemuehl's feed mill.
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Show Cart Along Lake Michigan

Date: 1902
Description: Two-wheeled show cart with pair of white show horses in tandem hitch, being driven by one person, probably along Lake Michigan.
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The Dixon

Date: 1931
Description: Exterior view of The Dixon, a Victorian-era house with guest rooms.
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Jens L. Gregerson Farm Tourist Home — Highway 16 East

Date: 1931
Description: Farmhouse with accommodations for tourists. There are bushes and trees in the lawn, and a bench and lawn swing.
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Oak Villa Annex — Mrs. S.J. Knudsen — Wis. Ave. & Oak St.

Date: 1931
Description: View across lawn of the annex of a house with rooms for tourists. The main house is in the background on the right. There is a lawn swing under a blossomin...
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Greetings from Pine Grove Hotel "On the River"

Date: 1926
Description: Composite postcard with eight images of the Pine Grove Hotel and cottages, and views of the Wisconsin River. Caption reads: "Greetings from Pine Grove Hote...

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