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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Girls playing basketball outdoors at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two workers loading bundles of sisal leaves onto a tram car on a plantation in the Yucatan(?). The sisal or hennequen was used by the McCormick Company and... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Several farmers and farm laborers, including a handful of children, at work harvesting grain with a McCormick grain binder in a field. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A woman stands with her bicycle on a country road. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two Ho-Chunk men wearing beaded shirts are gathering cranberries (hoocake) alongside a Ho-Chunk woman and a white man and woman. A large group of cranberry... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of wagon bridge in Darlington, with a river on the right, a cow in a field, and a building on the left. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A woman stands in a marsh near the site of Eleazer William's first house. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View down driveway towards a farm family posing in front of their farmhouse and farm buildings. An older man and woman are sitting. Three women are standin... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view towards buildings in Prairie du Sac from the east bank of the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Distant view of Black Hawk Lookout near the Wisconsin River. There is an open field with a single tree and a fence in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Weathered building, possibly at Walnut Grove, the family farm of Cyrus McCormick. Walnut Grove was near Steele's Tavern, Virginia. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View down Portage Canal, with trees and open land on either side. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a bridge over the Wisconsin River. Caption reads: "The New Bridge on the Wisconsin, Portage, Wis." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill towards farm fields and houses in Oil City. Tree-covered hills are in the distance. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Fox River during the winter. A hill with trees on the far shoreline can be seen in the background. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Kern family with other picnickers in a horse-drawn wagon. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Horse and carriage traveling on dirt road along the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Munger's Mill, built in 1883, on the Wisconsin River at Kilbourn. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Dr. Edward A. Bass posing near boathouses and pond (Montello Lake). |
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