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| Description: | Elevated view of five children walking in a field behind what appears to be tenement housing. Wooden fire escapes are attached to the rear of the buildings... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of vendors gathered in the South Water Street Market. Horse-drawn carriages and automobiles park in rows between commercial buildings on eit... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of the pier landing as seen from the tourist camp site in Devil's Lake State Park. People are strolling on the dock, a boat is docked, w... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View of a train approaching the depot. Two men stand alongside the train. Heavy smoke from the train causes a fog cloud. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View down middle of a retail street. Horses and buggies are parked on either side of the street at the curb. The visible shops signs are: Millinery, WallPa... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View down middle of a wide dirt road in a residential area. Trees line both sides of the street along the sidewalks. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A retail street with the Terry Amerpohl Department Company, Will J. Smith — Rexall drugstore, a furniture store, and a church. A horse and buggy is parked ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Panoramic group portrait of the Wisconsin National Guard Ambulance Company No. 1 at Camp Douglas, together with its ambulances and motorcycles with sidecar... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A horse and carriage travels down a main street lined with retail shops and parked automobiles. On the left is a barber pole on the curb, and a clock hangs... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View across street of two girls standing outside the open garage door of a large, brick automotive repair shop. They are both wearing roller skates. An Ame... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of an exterior with a man and woman in conversation on a riverboat deck. Other people in background. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A geological survey map that shows the sedimentary and igneous deposits in southeastern Wisconsin and south central Wisconsin, as well as the limits of gla... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A geological survey map of southeastern Wisconsin that shows the configuration of the bedrock beneath the glacial drift and other deposits in southeastern ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A geological survey map that map of southeastern Wisconsin shows the surface deposits east of the Wisconsin River, from the Illinois state line north to Ne... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of Easter Bluff, with many trees. In the foreground two sets of railroad tracks can be seen. A post and wire fence runs along the edge o... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Two views of a man using the Elgin tractor. The image at left shows the farmer using the machine in a field; the image at right depicts the man using the t... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Mary Miles Minter and her director James Kirkwood in the street of the little old New England Village constructed behind the American F... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | This 1917 map of Ashland County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range system, towns, sections, cities and villages, the Bad River Indian Reservation, ra... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | This map, which highlights the land for sale by the Rust-Owen Lumber Company in the towns of Drummond, Cable and Grandview, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, sho... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | This 1917 map of Bayfield County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range system, towns, sections, cities and villages, railroads, wagon roads, and lakes a... |
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