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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A seated self-portrait of the photographer. He wears eyeglasses, and a suit with vest and floppy cravat. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Children play in a large swimming pool with a stone changing house. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A fleet of four pickup trucks of various makes and a larger truck, all advertising L.C. Welch Plumbing and Heating on the door. They are parked on a reside... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Pete Sprecher's Cafe and Bar on Water Street. A sign identifies the entrance to Pearl's Garden Dining Room. There are two benches and a penny weight machi... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from road of large two-story house which has been converted to a funeral home. The two-story structure has a large porch and brick on the first story,... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A seated young woman in a nineteenth century style dress poses with a tapestry or carpet bag and spinning wheel. A bonnet rests on an antiquer dresser beh... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The storefront of the J.C. Penney store, 127 Third Street. There are summer clothes, hats, and shoes for men and women in the display windows. There is a h... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men and a woman pose in front of the L.C. Welch Plumbing and Heating store, 137 Third Avenue. There are signs advertising Maytag and Shellane, "compres... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An interior view of a store with bolts and remnants of fabric for sale. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An exterior view of August Derleth's home, "Place of Hawks," seen from the garden and partially obscured by trees. The house was built in 1940. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The entrance to "Place of Hawks," the home of author August Derleth, built in 1940. The stone house is roofed with a kind of thatch. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The Baraboo High School marching band, its director and majorettes, pose in uniform on the steps of the Sauk County Courthouse. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Eight new Massie-Harris tractors are parked in the snow in front of the Martiny Implement Co., 147 Third Avenue. A crowd has gathered and men sit on the tr... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A repair man checks a tire on a stand and a second inspects an inner tube while a customer looks on. Signs advertise Goodrich Tires, Bowes Seal Fast, and t... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from cobblestone street of a man standing next to a police officer at the corner of Third and Oak Streets, in front of the Corner Drugstore. A horse-d... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A barn, windmill and shed on the grounds of The Farm Kitchen, a restaurant near Baraboo and Devil's Lake State Park. Stones line a parking area, and a swin... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An open cabinet in the photographer's home displays his collection of lustreware and other pottery. The collection is now owned by the Wisconsin Historical... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man with a cigar stands next to a rack displaying periodicals, including a large number of movie fan and detective magazines. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A shoemaker in striped work jacket and a tie works on a machine in his shop. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A group of 14 hunters poses in front of seven field dressed deer which hang from a rack made of metal pipe. There is a barn in the far background, left, an... |
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