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Dodgeville Hotel

Date: 1925
Description: Three men are working outside on the street in front of the Dodgeville Hotel.
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White House Inn

Date: 1925
Description: Exterior of the White House Inn, a three-story wooden structure with a two-story wing in the rear. A road sign for Highway 23 is in the foreground on the c...
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Milton House Inn

Date: 1925
Description: The Milton House Inn. The Milton House was a part of the Underground Railroad prior to the abolition of slavery. The house was built in 1845 by Joseph Good...
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Site of Holton Tavern

Date: 1925
Description: A car and driver stop on a country road near Mt. Horeb at the site of the Holton Tavern. A windmill and tree stand on the site and there is debris at the ...
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Buttes des Morts Inn

Date: 1925
Description: A large, two-story wood building with nine over six windows identified as an inn; at the time of the photograph it served as the Butte des Morts Post Offic...
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Stone Barn Tavern

Date: 1925
Description: The Stone Barn Tavern, located about three miles west of Milton. The three cottonwood trees in front of the tavern were brought from Vermont. There are sev...
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City Hotel

Date: 1925
Description: View across street of several commercial buildings in a downtown area. The stone building in the foreground is nearly covered by vines and is identified as...
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Melchior Hotel

Date: 1925
Description: View from road of a two-story brick structure identified as the Melchior Hotel. See also image 67069.
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Commercial Building

Date: 1925
Description: View across street of a young boy in overalls crossing the street in front of a large frame commercial building with windows and awnings, possibly a hotel....
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Astor House

Date: 1925
Description: The Astor House hotel, with an automobile parked under trees on the left, and a large billboard for Wrigley's Spearmint gum on the right.
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Token Creek Tavern

Date: 1925
Description: This view of the Token Creek Tavern (Field's Inn) was created from a tintype (circa 1870) by E.E. Lawrence. A crowd has gathered on the porch and balcony o...
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LaFayette Hill Tavern

Date: 1925
Description: This two-story wooden structure was originally the house of LaFayette Hill (1812-1853), a member of Wisconsin's first Constitutional Convention and settler...
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Alba House

Date: 1925
Description: Men stand on the street level porch and women on the second floor wrap-around balcony of the Alba House. A sign on the railing advertises a harness shop.
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Angier House

Date: 1925
Description: Men with horses and buggies pose in front of a three-story wooden building identified as the Angier House by a sign painted on the clapboards. Women look o...
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Twin Island House

Date: 1925
Description: An old commercial structure identified as the Twin Island House. There are feed sacks on the porch and a Coca-Cola sign on the front of the building. This...
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Bridge into a Small Town

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of a small town with a river and bridge in the foreground. High water has washed away the road and river bank at the far end of the bridge. T...
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Timme Mill

Date: 1925
Description: View across lake of a four-story wooden mill with two wings, one with an oriel window. There is a building with a cupola, probably a granary, behind the mi...
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Watering Trough at Delavan

Date: 1925
Description: An unidentified man in a buggy stops to water his horse at an old trough in the middle of the road. There is a handbill on a utility pole on the left.
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Fox House

Date: 1925
Description: The brick, Italianate style Fox House hotel in Columbus. There are brackets under the overhang and a large belvidere. A sign on the building advertises Coc...
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The Old Mill

Date: 1925
Description: Three-story stone mill built in 1847 by J.C. Sherwood. Many panes of glass in the twelve over twelve windows are broken and the roof over the loading dock ...

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