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Photograph

Boy with Calf

Date: 1931
Description: Harold Calder, wearing bib overalls and a cap, poses with his calf, which won second place at the Cambridge Festival in 1931. There are chickens, a small c...
Photograph

Flower Garden

Date: 1931
Description: A woman sits and reads on a wooden slat bench in a flower garden. There are ornamental plants in a wash tub and other containers; a rose bush nearly covers...
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Headstand

Date: 1931
Description: A girl wearing bloomers and long stockings performs a headstand as other girls look on. One of the bystanders is also wearing athletic clothes under her co...
Photograph

Grading the Road

Date: 1931
Description: Men using horse-drawn and gasoline powered road equipment work on Highway 80 near Rockbridge. A wooded bluff rises steeply behind a farmhouse. Barns, a sil...
Photograph

Gustave A. Schulz House

Date: 1931
Description: Vines cover trellises on two porches of the Schulz house, a large wood frame Victorian farmhouse. There is fretwork in the gables and a band of decorative ...
Photograph

Francis T. Johnson

Date: 1931
Description: Francis Johnson, teacher at the Mayo School, District No. 1, standing beside a screened porch. The porch has a rustic log railing and stone foundation. The...
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Ohnstein Cottage

Date: 1931
Description: View from water of a child playing near a playpen on the lawn of a one and one-half story cottage on a slope along the shore of a lake. There is a stone se...
Photograph

Residence of Francis Johnson

Date: 1931
Description: View from street of a two-story "boomtown" style building which was the residence of Francis Johnson, teacher at the Mayo School, District No. 1, Town of W...
Photograph

Tom Simoc

Date: 1931
Description: Tom Simoc, 14, poses with a Guernsey cow near a log barn. On the reverse of the photograph is written, "Won prizes at Co. Fair, 1930." Tom was the son of N...
Photograph

Barbara Kiechler

Date: 1931
Description: Miss Barbara Kiechler, identified as a 4-H Club worker in Coon Valley, posing on a low wall surrounding the Grotto of the Holy Family on the grounds of Vil...
Photograph

Victory School

Date: 1931
Description: Students at Victory School, La Crosse County, pose at the side of their stone school building. All the boys are wearing neckties.
Photograph

Battle Creek School

Date: 1931
Description: Students of the Battle Creek School, Joint District No. 4, have gathered outside the school building for their picture. The girls are on or near the front ...
Photograph

Philip La Follette at His Desk

Date: 1931
Description: Portrait of Philip La Follette sitting behind his desk during his first term as Wisconsin's governor. He is formally dressed in a three-piece suit with nec...
Photograph

View on the Lawn "The Highland"

Date: 1931
Description: View of the Highland Hotel's lakeside lawn. Several park benches are among the trees on the lawn. In the background at the shoreline is a boathouse with a ...
Postcard

Green Lake Bible Institute; Hulbert Hall and Auditorium

Date: 1931
Description: Black and white photographic postcard with two views: one of Hulbert Hall and the other the octagonal auditorium at the Green Lake Bible Institute. A man i...
Postcard

1931 Demonstration Home

Date: 1931
Description: A two-story stone home in a Germanic-Austrian style. A decorative tile is set into the exterior between the windows on the second floor. Caption reads: "19...
Postcard

First National Bank

Date: 1931
Description: View across intersection towards the corner bank, which is next to a service station. Automobiles are parked at the curb. Caption reads: "First National Ba...
Book or Pamphlet

WI Telephone Company

Date: 1931
Description: Exterior view of the Wisconsin Telephone Co. building, 946 E. Main Street. In the background is a sign (reading backwards) for "Burgess Battery."
Photograph

Windmill and Gas Station

Date: 1931
Description: Windmill and Gas Station. Written on back: "The 'Service Station.'"

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