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Main Street View

Date: 1963
Description: View across main street of storefronts along the slope of a hill. At the top of the hill is a church with a steeple.
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Chief Red Bird

Date: 1963
Description: Statue of Winnebago Indian Chief Red Bird, with Lake Winnebago in the background.
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G.A.R. Memorial Hall

Date: 1962
Description: Children and adults gather around a showcase in the G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) Memorial Hall on the top floor of the Wisconsin State Capitol.
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Jackson Harbor

Date: 1964
Description: Jackson Harbor on Washington Island.
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Houses and Cemetery

Date: 07 17 1960
Description: Houses viewed from an old cemetery lot.
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Main Street During Reconstruction

Date: 09 18 1961
Description: Main street of the town, shown during reconstruction for use as a motion picture set.
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Elevated View of Houses

Date: 1965
Description: Elevated view from hill of houses and garages surrounded by trees.
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City Hall and Street Corner

Date: 1963
Description: View of City Hall and the street corner on which it is located.
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Shoreline near Green Bay

Date: 1963
Description: Elevated view of a small island near the Green Bay shore.
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Railroad Yard

Date: 1964
Description: Elevated view of train cars in a railway yard.
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Hill Crest School

Date: 1963
Description: Exterior view of Hill Crest School.
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Nelson Dewey State Park

Date: 1958
Description: Nelson Dewey State Park (Cassville vicinity). Bridge construction near the park office which was built in the 1850s as a chicken house. The park was establ...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 33-46

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Description: The Little Bluebirds — has anyone expressed it better
than Judy Garland singing
. . . why, oh why, can't I
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 47-54

Date: 
Description: The fast movement was a nervous reach for something west.
But along the way there was no hurry. Wait for noontime, turned round to a movement eastward,<...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 55-61

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Description: Way back in the soft center of hard times
did not their resistance to change in the sentiment
make some sense

What could take the place of the...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 62-69

Date: 
Description: The arrangements

Somebody takes care of it:
planning the details, announcements,
transportation,
setting the tone,
fitting all the likel...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 70-78

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Description: If everything stopped dead — watches, tickers, hands — on every island something new would bloom
and another age begin
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 79-84

Date: 
Description: A working lifetime minted these good coins – every day
devoted to circulating them through the same routine streets
wore them thin into retirement
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 85-90

Date: 
Description: 200 years this tree grew here and so did I
We were raised here and brought up young ones
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 91-96

Date: 
Description: The visionaries: slightly seeing as many improvements
as there are egos to reckon with

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