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Park Hotel

Date: 1910
Description: Exterior view of the Park Hotel.
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Chequamegon Hotel

Date: 1888
Description: View of the Chequamegon Hotel, built by the Wisconsin Central railroad interests and opened in 1877. It faced the bay and had a long series of steps leadin...
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Family around Table

Date: 1876
Description: A family of twelve is grouped outdoors around a table. Behind them is a picket fence and a frame house, with latticework and carpenter's lace decorating it...
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Professor R.B. Anderson, his Family and Visitors

Date: 1877
Description: "Professor R.B. Anderson, his Family & Visitors." Seated outdoors left to right around a table are: Mrs. R.B. Anderson, H. Herlofson, Professor Rasmus B. A...
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Halle Steensland Home

Date: 1878
Description: The Halle Steensland home, an impressive two-story brick house in Maple Bluff, with five family members posed along the front porches. It is possible this ...
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Rev. Jacob Aall Ottesen, Family and Guests

Date: 1876
Description: "Rev. J.A. Ottesen, family and family group on the veranda" from Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views." First row left to right: Mrs. Ottesen, Fro...
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Hoo Hoo Club Hotel

Date: 04 24 1910
Description: The Hoo Hoo Club Hotel, a lumbermen's social organization. Two men are standing near a man driving a sled carrying milk cans pulled by two horses in front ...
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Dodgeville Hotel

Date: 1925
Description: Three men are working outside on the street in front of the Dodgeville Hotel.
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McDonald Residence

Date: 1920
Description: View of a large house of Greek Architecture, with Corinthian pillars or columns. Built by John S. McDonald, and later owned by the McMillan estate. General...
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James Bowen House

Date: 1965
Description: The James Bowen House at 302 South Mills Street. There is a station wagon parked in front of the building.
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Fraser House

Date: 1935
Description: East elevation view of the James Fraser house porch.
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Holtzhauzen House

Date: 1904
Description: The William H. Holtzhauzen house, 351 West Washington Avenue. A group of people are posing near the entrance. Holtzhauzen, a German immigrant carpenter and...
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Hutson House

Date: 1880
Description: Stereograph view of the Hutson House, with people standing on its balcony and porch.
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Tall-tale Postcard: Melon Party (without Melons)

Date: 1911
Description: Photographic mock-up for an Alfred Stanley Johnson photomontage postcard entitled "Melon Party." Four girls wearing bows and dresses are holding an object...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Melon Party (with Melons)

Date: 1911
Description: Photomontage of children with giant watermelons. Four girls wearing dresses and bows hold a giant slice of melon across them as they all bite into it. Two ...
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Rusk with Viroqua Leaders

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Description: Jeremiah M. Rusk, in black, standing on the porch of the C.M. Butt law office. They are, seated left to right, Judge Carson Graham, Judge James Evans Newe...
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Salvator Moshe and his Children

Date: 1954
Description: Salvator Moshe with his children, Michael (back right), Mathilde (front right), and Marcia (on lap).
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Melchior Hotel

Date: 1925
Description: View from road of a two-story brick structure identified as the Melchior Hotel. See also image 67069.
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Token Creek Tavern

Date: 1925
Description: This view of the Token Creek Tavern (Field's Inn) was created from a tintype (circa 1870) by E.E. Lawrence. A crowd has gathered on the porch and balcony o...
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Cliff House Inn

Date: 1925
Description: A copy of an original photograph by H.H. Bennett of the Cliff House Inn at Devil's Lake as seen from the beach. Abraham Lincoln is reported to have slept h...

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