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| Description: | View of businesses on South Water Street, including the Monroe County Bank and a drugstore on the left. Caption reads: "South Water Street, Sparta, Wis." |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Records room at the State Public School. Volumes of "analyzed accounts" are seen in the foreground, and small drawers line the right wall. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Laundry room at the State Public School, with large range equipment featured. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the State Public School grounds, with numerous school buildings. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View across lawn with trees toward the courthouse. Caption reads: "Court House, Sparta, Wis." |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | The former Castleman log house and hotel, possibly 45 years after it was built. In the foreground are wooden wagons and wagon parts. Typewritten on the r... |
| Date: | 11 02 1936 |
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| Description: | A man loads a milk can into a McCormick-Deering milk cooler at the State Public School for Dependent and Neglected Children. |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of bridge and stream. |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Looking west down road towards the bridge. The roadway is damaged in two spots, leaving large gaps. The walls of the bridge are still intact. Traffic barri... |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | View from water of bridge collapsed into the river, with the metal supports half submerged and the brick base crumbling. Dwellings can be seen along the hi... |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Looking south down street, with storefronts on either side. The street and bridge are undergoing reconstruction. Military vehicles are in the background. |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Looking Northwest. Workers are standing on the right next to the exposed drainage pipes in the damaged bridge. Sheets and quilts are covering the entranc... |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Looking south. A jeep sits in the middle of the construction zone. The storefronts are covered with quilts and blankets. |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Behind the drugstore, looking downstream. The water under the bridge is full of construction debris. |
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| Description: | Exterior view from road of the Sparta Public Library. Reverse of the cardboard backing reads: "Carnegie bldg., 1903, cost $12,000. Architects, Schick & Rot... |
| Date: | 07 04 1980 |
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| Description: | Cuban Family sitting on porch steps with sign on door that says: "Independence 4 of July USA." Photographs made on July 4, 1980, by Archibald of Cuban refu... |
| Date: | 07 04 1980 |
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| Description: | Catholic mass with Cuban refugees who had arrived as a result of the Port of Mariel exodus, and were housed at Camp McCoy. |
| Date: | 07 04 1980 |
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| Description: | Members of family seated and standing near the entrance to their home. Photographs made on July 4, 1980, by Archibald of Cuban refugees who had arrived as ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Assembled group of Wisconsin National Guard officers at Camp McCoy. A few tents can be seen in the background at right. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a stagecoach pulled by four horses in the road in front of a harness shop. Two men sit in the upper seat. A handful of people stan... |
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