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Restaurant Operated by Helen Baldwin

Date: 1925
Description: Exterior view down road towards Helen Baldwin's restaurant.
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Helen Baldwin's Restaurant

Date: 1925
Description: View towards the restaurant, which has an awning over the windows. On the lawn are pine trees and a lawn swing.
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Family Camping

Date: 1925
Description: A Native American (possibly Ho-Chunk) family rests at their campsite under a large tree. There is a bucket suspended over a small campfire.
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Bunn the Baker

Date: 1925
Description: Bunn the Baker, in chef's hat and apron and holding a rolling pin, stands beside a wood burning cook stove set up outdoors. A sign above the stove advertis...
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Cars Buried in Snow

Date: 1925
Description: Winter scene with three men standing beside parked cars that have been buried by snowfall and snowplow on Fourth Avenue, Baraboo, Wisconsin. The Sauk Count...
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Young Woman with Flowers

Date: 1925
Description: An unidentified young woman in old-fashioned dress holds flowers as she stands in front of entrance of the Trimpey house at 719 Oak Street.
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Devil's Bar-B-Q

Date: 1925
Description: View from across road of the Devil's Barbecue roadside restaurant on South Boulevard, then Highway 12, near Baraboo. The restaurant is a stone building; th...
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Sewing Machine Delivery Truck

Date: 1925
Description: View from across street of a small truck loaded with two "Singer Electric Sewing Machines" parked in front of a store. The store, identified as "The Hat S...
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Factory on River

Date: 1925
Description: View across river of a large mill or factory complex, possibly the Island Woolen Mill. In front of the mill is a roofed boathouse, with a canoe hanging fro...
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Island Woolen Mill Dam

Date: 1925
Description: The Island Woolen Mill dam and bridge over the Baraboo River. In the foreground is a concrete "pergola" which shades a small bench. Molded into a concrete ...
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Silos across River

Date: 1925
Description: Two large clay block silos stand beside a river. There is a large building, possibly a mill, behind the silos, a barn to the right and a shed on the left. ...
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Service Station

Date: 1925
Description: A large sign identifies the Deep Rock service station at 132 Fifth Avenue. Another sign advertises "Kant-Nock" gasoline. There are large piles of snow lini...
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A Turkey at Krueger's

Date: 1925
Description: A man wearing a cap and apron holds a (likely taxidermied) Tom turkey while a second man offers the turkey a drink from a bottle. Wooden boxes labelled "Ol...
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Eight Men

Date: 1925
Description: Seven men, five in work clothes and two wearing suits pose on the steps in front of a wooden building, which is a machine shop, with large paned windows. O...
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Fair Building

Date: 1925
Description: A small, wood frame building with a band of high windows and three short spires stands on the snowy Sauk County Fair Grounds. There is a covered entry porc...

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