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People on Sled

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Description: Elevated view of a group of people posing on and around horse-drawn sleds. There is a man on the porch of the building in the background.
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German Methodist Church

Date: 1894
Description: View of the German Methodist Church with George Bowers, a milkman, standing in the foreground.
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Warner Memorial Road

Date: 1925
Description: View of the memorial pillars on the Warner Memorial Road near Baraboo. The pillars were erected in 1923.
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Water Street

Date: 1915
Description: View of Water Street, the winter home of the Ringling Brothers Circus. The whole street was circus property.
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Water Street

Date: 1880
Description: View of unpaved Water Street, featuring a group of patrons standing in the entrance of A. Becker's Saloon.
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Main Street

Date: 1900
Description: View down unpaved Main Street, with a machine and repair shop on the right and multiple horse-drawn vehicles traveling along the road.
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Road Construction with Horses

Date: 1918
Description: Patrolman leveling the surface of State Highway 33 in the town of Excelsior in Sauk County using a team of horses and a wooden grader. Patrolmen were inst...
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Business Block in Merrimac

Date: 1911
Description: View down an unpaved Merrimac street with a brick building and horse-drawn carriages. The caption at bottom left reads: "A Fine Business Block."
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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...
Postcard

Taxidermist Cart

Date: 1907
Description: A man in a suit and hat, and a ribbon on his lapel, poses in front of a cart with a sign that reads: "E.D. Ochsner, Taxidermist, Prairie du Sac, Wis." Bunt...
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Sauk City, Wis., Bank

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Description: Exterior view of a small bank. A horse-and-carriage is hitched outside the bank, and a house is behind it.
Postcard

Business District, Lime Ridge

Date: 1908
Description: View down unpaved road going through a settlement. A meat market with a public telephone is on the left, with a group of people gathered on the sidewalk in...
Postcard

Stock Day

Date: 1910
Description: Text at left reads: "Stock Day, Sauk City." Horse-drawn sleds are hitched on both sides of a snow covered street lined with businesses. Townspeople are on ...
Postcard

Lovers Lane

Date: 08 14 1929
Description: Text on front reads: "Lovers Lane, Sauk City, Wis." An unpaved, rural road with a wooden guard rail on both sides. A sign reads: "Automobiles Go Slow." Beh...
Postcard

Buggy on a Bridge

Date: 11 04 1912
Description: A horse-drawn buggy crossing a bridge with trees overhead.
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Business Block

Date: 01 20 1917
Description: Text on front reads: "Business Block, Spring Green, Wis." An unpaved street with automobiles and horse drawn vehicles, many parked at the curb. Pedestrians...

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