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Children Playing with Flying Rings

Date: 1915
Description: A group of children, mostly boys wearing caps, playing with flying rings outside at a playground in front of a brick building.
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Grant County Contest Winners

Date: 1915
Description: Unidentified group of spelling and arithmetic contest winners posing on a lawn outside of a brick building. The children are wearing ribbons on their lapel...
Postcard

Scene at Vilas Park

Date: 1915
Description: Early souvenir postcard showing people strolling around the grounds of the recently-opened Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo). Caption reads: "A Visit to the...
Photograph

Third Wisconsin Civil War Veterans' Reunion

Date: 1915
Description: Third Wisconsin Civil War veterans' reunion, posed on the lawn in front of the Beloit Public Library.
Photograph

Child Operating Horse-Drawn Farm Machinery

Date: 1915
Description: A young child is sitting on what appears to be a horse-drawn mower in a field. The horses are wearing fly-nets and blinders.
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Country Road

Date: 1915
Description: The photographer's son, Ferdinand Leonard, (Fedy) stands alongside large rock near the unpaved shore road in Peninsula State Park.
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Hotz Family

Date: 1915
Description: Ferdinand Hotz poses with his wife Clothilde (with glasses), son Ferdinand Leonard (Fedy) and one of his daughters on Champagne Rock on Cottage Row.
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Elevated View of the Mississippi River

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of the Mississippi River from a bluff. There is a farm and other houses along the shoreline, and in the foreground a boy stands on the bluff ...
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Elbert Blow Farmhouse

Date: 1915
Description: Farmhouse of the Elbert Blow family with a Ford roadster.

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