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Convict Labor During World War I

Date: 09 1917
Description: South Carolina convicts building a road at Camp Wadsworth near Spartenberg in preparation for the camp's use as a National Guard training camp. The prisone...
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Soldiers Off to Camp

Date: 08 01 1917
Description: National Guard troops unloading their supplies from New York Central railroad cars into a transport wagon to be taken to camp.
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Main Street

Date: 1920
Description: Main Street.
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Dousman House Hotel

Date: 1925
Description: The Dousman Hotel, built about 1862.
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Men Harvesting Hay in Field

Date: 1915
Description: Three men using pitchforks to lift hay onto a wagon drawn by two horses.
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Milwaukee County Court House

Date: 1839
Description: Courthouse and surrounding buildings. There are also two horse-drawn carriages, people on horseback, and a few pedestrians.
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Aerial View of Residential Area

Date: 1955
Description: Aerial view of Valley Fair Mall, with a residential area beyond it on both sides of a river, all surrounded by trees and farmland.
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Liberty School Group

Date: 1932
Description: Hand-colored photograph of students from Liberty school, a one-room school in Sheboygan County. The children in the back row are standing on the bumper of ...
Manuscript

Griggs Album: Kindergarten Goes to Vilas Park

Date: 06 1925
Description: Children posing in the back of an open truck wagon in front of the Neighborhood House Infant Welfare Clinic. The wagon is marked "Frautschi". This is the f...
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Johnny Johnson Residence

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Description: View towards a man, a woman and four children standing posing near the picket fence of a two-story wood-frame house. Identified as Residence built by A. Hy...
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Residence of Petra Kjorstad

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Description: View across road and fence towards a two-story wood-frame house. A man is standing on the porch next to an infant in a baby carriage. A wooden sidewalk lea...
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William O'Hearn Residence

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Description: Outdoor view across lawn towards a two-story wood-frame house. Flowers in vases and plants in pots are arranged on the porch, and a dog is standing in the ...
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Two Boats on the Water

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Description: View across water towards two boats close together on a lake. There are six men in the boat in front, one man with a pipe in his mouth, and two men in the ...
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Calf Carried by Airplane

Date: 1930
Description: View of calf sitting on hay and looking out of the open doorway of an airplane. A man is sitting behind the calf. The calf was carried by plane from Pulas...

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