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A Teenage Girl on the Telephone

Date: 1950
Description: A kitchen counter is a good perch for a teenage girl's telephone conversation.
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Quiet Moment

Date: 05 14 1987
Description: A couple holds hands and reads together while sitting on a bench.
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Caning Chairs

Date: 10 17 1968
Description: An elderly man and woman make new cane seats for chairs at the Cedar Lake Home for the Aged.
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Walter L. Main Circus Personnel

Date: 1904
Description: Personnel of the Walter L. Main show in 1904 and 1905, photographed outside a tent, include clowns, the driver of a four horse chariot, and air performers....
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Stephenson Hall at Lawrence College

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Description: Stephenson Science Hall at Lawrence College.
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Beloit First Congregational Church

Date: 1960
Description: Interior of Beloit First Congregational Church. View from aisle towards the organ and altar.
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Farmhouses and Churches

Date: 1900
Description: View from hill across field towards farmhouses, dwellings and churches along a road. In the foreground are stumps. Caption reads: "Big Falls, Wis."
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Cornish Miner's Homes in British Hollow

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Description: Cornish miner's homes on a hill, with surrounding landscape.
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Hawks Tavern

Date: 1884
Description: Hawks Tavern, also known as Hawks Inn, with men on the porch and trees in the yard on each side.
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Kemper Homestead

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior view of the Kemper homestead with a wrap-around porch, and trees in the foreground.
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Cawker (Colonel E. Harrison) Residence

Date: 1890
Description: Cawker (Colonel E. Harrison) residence.
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Doty Home

Date: 1870
Description: Doty home with trees in the yard.
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North Broadway from Cass Street

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Description: View down a curving residential, tree-lined street. Trolley tracks run the length of the street.
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De Pere High School

Date: 1890
Description: High school, built in 1857 and destroyed by fire in 1899.
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George White House

Date: 1962
Description: Drawing of the exterior of George White's home, 421 Cass Street. The house was built about 1835.
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Randall Wilcox Residence

Date: 1867
Description: View across unpaved road towards Randall Wilcox's home, with a fence along the sidewalk. A group of people are standing on the front porch.
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Nine-Mile House

Date: 1900
Description: View of the exterior of Nine-Mile House.
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Green Bay Residence

Date: 1880
Description: Exterior of home and lawn on a summer day, with a forest in the background and a picket fence in the foreground. The house has a lookout on the roof.
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Jourdain Homestead

Date: 1900
Description: Jourdain's homestead, built by Joseph Jourdain in what was then Ft. Howard, Wisconsin. Eleazer Williams is said to have married Joseph Jourdain's daughter ...
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John Lawes House

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Description: Exterior view of the John Lawes' house.

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