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| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | View from hill down the unpaved main street. There is a man and two women standing in front of a fence and house across the street on the right. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | View of New Glarus from a neighboring hill. A man, wearing a hat and suit, and five children, girls and boys, are posing along the fence in the foreground.... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | View of the town which was founded by Swiss settlers in 1845. A group of women and children stands in front of a fence at 130 5th Avenue, the Gabriel Schi... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Barlow "Chalet of the Golden Fleece," built in 1937 as the home of Edwin Barlow, originator and director of the Wilhelm Tell play. It has been willed to th... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The structure was built as a home by Edwin Barlow, and later given to the town for use as a museum of Swiss memorabilia. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Barlow "Chalet of the Golden Fleece," New Glarus, Wisconsin. Built as a home by Edwin Barlow, it was later given to the town for use as a museum of Swiss m... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Barlow "Chalet of the Golden Fleece," New Glarus, Wisconsin. Home of Edwin Barlow, now city museum. Two women are standing in front of the house. |
| Date: | 07 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Five men on the speaker's stand at the New Glarus Centennial celebration. From the left are: Gilbert Hoesly, Mayor of New Glarus; Ulrich R. Beusch, Swiss V... |
| Date: | 07 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Part of the crowd celebrating the New Glarus Centennial. In the background is a monument in memory of the first settlers of the Swiss colony of New Glarus ... |
| Date: | 03 01 1949 |
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| Description: | The New Glarus chalet home of Ernest Thierstein. It is an example of authentic Bernese architecture of canton Bern in Switzerland. |
| Date: | 03 01 1949 |
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| Description: | Ernest Thierstein relaxing in his Swiss-style chalet home in New Glarus. He came from the village of Boviel in the Emmental valley in the canton of Bern, S... |
| Date: | 05 27 1961 |
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| Description: | A mosaic lawn decoration made of various objects set in cement. The decoration is approximately thirty inches in diameter and revolves on a post. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View down a commercial street, with Engler's store located on the left. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View from a pedestrian walkway looking towards the central business area. A concrete four-sided sign is in the center of intersection. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | View across street of the exterior of the Bank of New Glarus on the corner of the street. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Exterior across lawn of the three-story New Glarus high school. The school building features a decommissioned Civil War cannon near the entrance. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A log cabin and park car at the Tourist Free Camp Ground. The cabin has a sign that reads, "New Glarus Settled 1845." |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Outside the Swingli House, near a memorial for the first New Glarus settlers. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A stone monument dedicated to the Old Lead Road. The marker reads: "The Old Lead Road. In 1828, ox-teams, guided along an ancient Winnebago Indian Trail, b... |
| Date: | 11 1946 |
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| Description: | Four men playing cards at a table with a fifth man seated on a radiator observing at left. In the foreground, a dog clears an empty beer bottle from the ta... |
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