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Horse and Buggy on a Country Road

Date: 1906
Description: View down tree-lined country road near Wausau, taken by Dr. Joseph Smith, talented amateur photographer. It depicts women (probably members of his family) ...
Photograph

Excursion Boats at the Dells

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Description: Excursion boats at the Wisconsin Dells. Boats Eolah and Alexander Mitchell at mooring, with distinctive Dells rock formations in the backgrou...
Painting

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

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Description: The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison.
Photograph

Tennis Friends

Date: 1914
Description: Four men and three women posing on Hull's tennis court.
Photograph

Soldier's Rock

Date: 1907
Description: Woman standing on soldier's rock on Madeline Island.
Photograph

"Dell Queen" at Chapel Gorge - Anaglyph

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Description: Stereograph of the steamboat the "Dell Queen" at Chapel Gorge. A woman and a young child are sitting on the shoreline.
Painting

Burch-Bolden Family Homestead

Date: 1906
Description: This oil painting is a fine weave cotton support (perhaps a bed sheet). It is signed and dated (1906) and depicts an early twentieth century rural southwes...
Painting

Trabajando en el Campo (Working in the Fields)

Date: 1998
Description: This scene was painted by Seferina Contreras Klinger from memories of her grandmother, Aurelia M. Contreras, and her uncle, Fidel Contreras, who worked pic...
Photograph

Elizabeth Baker and Anne Ashley

Date: 1913
Description: Two girls and a girl sit on the wooden stoop near a door. Grant's Point farm, Madeline Island.
Photograph

Group at Apostle Island

Date: 1915
Description: View looking towards shoreline of three men and one woman setting up a fire on the rocks for a picnic. There is a picnic basket on the log on the right, an...
Photograph

Picnic at Bass Island

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Description: Group of people at a picnic on the shoreline at Bass Island. Names written on back of print: Mrs. Abernathy, chair; Mrs. Hull; Mrs. Baker.
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Bear Island Picnic

Date: 1916
Description: Group of people at picnic on Bear Island.

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