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Atlas Mill

Date: 1922
Description: View across water towards the Atlas Mill. The paper making mill on the Fox River was built in 1878 and proved that paper could be made efficiently from gro...
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Electric Light & Power Company

Date: 1922
Description: Appleton Wisconsin Electric Light and Power Plant, 1922. Switchboard equipment of the plant, which began operating in September of 1822, is at the State Hi...
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American Fur Company Warehouse

Date: 1922
Description: The American Fur Company warehouse, also called Old Treaty Hall. In 1832 the fur company moved its Bayfield post to the Island (Madeline Island), and on th...
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Hawley House

Date: 1922
Description: The J.C. Hawley house, also known as the Evergreens, which stood on a site at Badger Road that later became a highway interchange. A water tower is on the ...
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St. Mary's Institute, St. Mary's College

Date: 1922
Description: View of St. Mary's Institute in 1872, and a view of St. Mary's College in 1922.
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Washburn Observatory

Date: 1922
Description: View from path through trees of observatory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Statue of Pocahontas

Date: 1922
Description: Close-up of a statue of Pocahontas located in the oldtown area of the city. Installed in 1922, and sculpted by William Ordway Partridge, the bronze statue...
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Greased Pig Chase at the Hustler Harvest Festival

Date: 1922
Description: View down unpaved Main Street of a group of men racing after a pig during the Hustler Harvest Festival. On the right is the Nash Service Station and the M....
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Ice Storm Aftermath

Date: 1922
Description: A man walks through debris along a metal railing at Cottonwood Villa after an ice storm. The lake, with houses and trees along the shoreline are in the bac...
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State Historical Library, U. of W.

Date: 1922
Description: Hand-colored postcard of the State Historical Society building facing the grassy lawn of the library mall. Caption reads: "State Historical Library, U. of ...
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Herbert P. Brumder Family

Date: 1922
Description: Herbert Paul Brumder, the youngest son of Milwaukee publisher and businessman George Brumder, sitting on porch steps with his wife, Margaret Bouer Brumder ...
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Ann Mitchell Library

Date: 1922
Description: Text on front reads: "Ann Mitchell Library-Tower Hill, Wis." A one-story, wooden building with a wrap-around veranda and broad front steps surrounded by tr...
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Masonic Block

Date: 1922
Description: Text on front reads: "Masonic Block, Waupun, Wis." Built of brick in 1922 in the Neoclassical style. The Masonic Lodge is above with commercial space below...

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