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Garfield Senior High School

Date: 1915
Description: View from street of the high school. Caption reads: "Garfield Senior High School, Fond du Lac, Wis."
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Wisconsin State Prison

Date: 1915
Description: Aerial view of the Wisconsin State Prison. Caption reads: "Aerial View, Wisconsin State Prison, Waupun, Wis."
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State Bank

Date: 1915
Description: Interior view of the cashier stations and light fixtures of the State Bank. Caption reads: "Interior State Bank of Waupun, Waupun, Wis."
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State Bank

Date: 1915
Description: Drawing of a front view of the State Bank with several figures standing in front. Caption at top reads: "25 Years of Service" and at bottom: "State Bank of...
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Watson Street, Ripon, Wisconsin

Date: 1915
Description: Street lined on both sides with homes and trees. Caption reads: "Watson St. North, Ripon, Wis."
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Ripon College

Date: 1915
Description: Exterior view of Smith Hall at Ripon College. Caption reads: "Smith Hall, Ripon College, Ripon, Wis."
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Ripon Commons

Date: 1915
Description: Caption reads: "The Commons, Ripon College, Ripon, Wis."
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Main Street from Blossom Street

Date: 1915
Description: Caption reads: "Main St., Looking North from Blossom St., Ripon, Wis." There is a hotel in the left foreground.
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Hotel Englebright on Main Street

Date: 1915
Description: Caption reads: "Main St., Looking Toward Hotel Englebright, Ripon, Wis."
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Tall-tale Postcard: We Never Stop

Date: 1915
Description: A man is driving an old-fashioned car with three women passengers on a road littered with cows. The driver has hit a cow with the car, causing it to fly in...
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Tall-tale Postcard: We Stopped Here

Date: 1915
Description: Photomontage of a group of travellers in a car colliding with a steamroller. The travellers have been thrown out of their car and into the air. The words...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Homeward Bound

Date: 1915
Description: Photomontage of a giant dog pulling an automobile across a landscape. The dog is running, causing the car, which is tethered to the dog's tail by a rope, ...
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Business District Scene

Date: 1915
Description: Two cars are parked in front of The First National Bank and a man walks down the sidewalk in front of the building. The bank is designed in an Art Deco sty...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Water Wagon

Date: 1915
Description: A convertible automobile with its top down has crashed into the back of a horse-drawn water wagon. One passenger has flown through the air and pierced the ...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Joy Ride

Date: 1915
Description: Photographic postcard of a man and a woman pushing their automobile through the mud because the wheels are caught in large ruts. Their feet have sunk to th...
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Portrait of the Gilbert Family

Date: 1915
Description: Mr. Gilbert's family standing in front of a farmhouse. The man on the left is holding what appears to be a cornstalk. Three other men, two women, and a dog...
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Grafton Hall

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of Grafton Hall. In the foreground is a stone arch covered walkway between two buildings, and a courtyard. Caption reads: "Grafton Hall, Fond...
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Front Gate, Wis. State Prison

Date: 1915
Description: Slightly elevated view of the front gate at the Wisconsin State Prison, taken from inside the prison grounds. In the foreground is the walkway to the gate ...
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High School

Date: 1915
Description: Text on front reads: "High School, Ripon, Wis." A two-story white brick or stone schoolhouse with basement windows along the foundation, and attic space. T...

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