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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Colonel Elihu Phillips home, built in 1854. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of the octagon house. The caption below the photograph reads: "This house, built in 1849, is on Jefferson county trunk M, near Fort Atkinson. Its oute... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View across grounds, with trees and shrubs on the lawn, towards the Main building and dormitory with ivy on the corner. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of Gays Mills from a bluff overlooking the town. A man is sitting on a fence in the left foreground. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Fort Howard hospital marker that reads: "Old Fort Howard • 1816 • This building formerly stood with the surgeons quarters and the powder magazine by the ri... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of the Tank cottage. The cottage was built about 1803 by Joseph Roi, a fur trader, who lived in it until 1805 when it was purchased by Jacques Porlier... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of the Tank Cottage, aka the Roi-Poerlier-Tank Cottage. The cottage was built in 1776 by Joseph Roi, a fur trader, who lived in it until 1805 when it ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the front of the cottage and the stone wall. Text reads: "Roi 1776, Porlier 1805, Tank 1850." |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Tank cottage. The cottage was built in 1776 by Joseph Roi, a fur trader, who lived in it until 1805 when it was purchased by Jacques Porl... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of the Jeremiah Curtin house located at 8685 West Grange Avenue. This stone and stucco residence was erected in the mid-1830s by Irish immigrants Davi... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Deutsches Haus, formerly the Dudley house. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Deutsches Haus, formerly the Dudley house. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Executive Residence, 130 East Gilman Street, preceded the current one in Maple Bluff. Purchased in 1882 by Governor Jeremiah M. Rusk, the legislature bough... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Executive Residence, 130 East Gilman Street, built in 1854. Used as Executive Residence from 1883-1950. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Wisconsin Power and Light Company generating plant and dam. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A view across Kenosha harbor at the large Simmons Company factory building. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Wisconsin Telephone Company Building, 17 South Fairchild Street. |
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