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Crumbling Mine Building

Date: 1909
Description: A deteriorating mining building seen from across a field.
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Wisconsin Seed Company

Date: 1940
Description: Exterior view of the Wisconsin Seed Company, Funk's Hybrid, with several automobiles parked beside it.
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Enos L. Jones Farm

Date: 1903
Description: View down hill of the Enos Lloyd Jones farm with Hillside Home School and Romeo and Juliet in the background.
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Wisconsin Heights, Sauk City, Wisconsin

Date: 1896
Description: Elevated view. Caption on negative sleeve reads: "Black Hawk Battlefield. Wis. Heights. Looking N. of E. up valley towards Catholic Church. Mrs. Charles N....
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Hop House

Date: 1909
Description: Exterior view of a hop house built in about 1868 by H.J. Meyer.
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Aerial View of Reedsburg

Date: 1957
Description: Aerial view of Reedsburg.
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Sauk County Road

Date: 1920
Description: Loganville Road in Sauk County taken by the Wisconsin Good Roads Association. The photograph was meant to create a contrast between the new improved road ...
Postcard

Bridge over Wisconsin River

Date: 1922
Description: Elevated view of bridge over Wisconsin River built in 1921 to take the place of the old wooden bridge when it became condemned. Caption reads: "Prairie Du ...
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School Class at Merrimac

Date: 1890
Description: A large class stands outside a school. Front row, left to right: Stella Nuzum, unknown, unknown, unknown, Mabel Devlin, Mary Devlin, unknown, Alice Odekirk...
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Loading Corn into Silo

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Description: The barn in the foreground, left, is the school barn for the Hillside Home School (which was run by Frank Lloyd Wright's aunts & Enos Lloyd Jones sisters, ...
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Hops Picking

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Description: A large group of people including men, women and children gathered together for hops picking. They are pictured in the middle of a hops field with hops pla...
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Man and Grandsons Standing in a Field

Date: 1880
Description: Albert Ludley Tuttle of Baraboo, standing with his grandchildren and grown sons with farm equipment and horses in a field of young trees. In the field in t...
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Farm Scene Through the Mist

Date: 1965
Description: Cedar tree and farmland in mist.
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Beekeeping Class

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Description: Group portrait of men and women posing outdoors in full beekeeping gear. Part of a class on beekeeping in Wisconsin.
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Tony Vielhuber and his Cattle

Date: 10 14 1978
Description: Tony Vielhuber picking up the tail of his 32 cattle on Highlow Road near Rock Springs.
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Simpson's Valley

Date: 1950
Description: View down hill towards a farm in a valley, with harvested corn in corn shocks in the field. Tree-lined hills are in the background. Text on reverse of imag...
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Sauk County Farm

Date: 1945
Description: Elevated view of a large farm in a valley. Caption reads: "Prosperous Sauk County Dairy farm — nestling in a fertile valley between timber-clad hills. Phot...
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Leykauf Bluff

Date: 1950
Description: A young girl wearing a winter coat and hat is standing in a tilled field at the base of Cassell, or Leykauf, Bluff. A description on the reverse of the pri...
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WVLR Radio Set

Date: 1965
Description: Close-up of a WVLR radio set, an FM radio that is a special, single-station receiver manufactured and advertised as a "barn radio" whose reception is unaff...
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Spring Green-Plain Road

Date: 06 1950
Description: View across a gently sloping prairie field. Trees are in the distance, and power lines and a road are on the left. The Highway Commission descriptive remar...

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