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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | People on a rustic bridge over river at Copper Falls State Park. A long log building is in the background on the other side of the river. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of Babcock Memorial Garden on the University of Wisconsin campus with bench. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Masonry, octagon house. Just outside of Green Bay, on Highway CC. It originally was part of a fort group. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes at the Saint Clara Academy. Caption reads: "Grotto of Our Lade of Lourdes, Saint Clara Academy, Sinsinawa Wiscons... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The structure was built as a home by Edwin Barlow, and later given to the town for use as a museum of Swiss memorabilia. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Barlow "Chalet of the Golden Fleece," New Glarus, Wisconsin. Built as a home by Edwin Barlow, it was later given to the town for use as a museum of Swiss m... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A view of some caves at Peninsula State Park. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A marker at the site of the former village of Oshaukuta on Highway 51, north of Portage. The marker states: "This tablet marks the site where the village o... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Cistercian Monastery. Plants and trees shroud building. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Large hospital in the background, with a large stone fountain or planter on the left. Two men are walking in the garden near a drive. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior of entrance to Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior of entrance to Home Economics building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The building has awnings over several windows. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Young Richard and Ralph Quinney pose for a picture holding hands in front of the farmhouse on the first day of the school year. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A postcard of the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo) depicting aquatic fowl, with an inset of a sea lion on a rock. Caption reads: "At the Zoo, Madison, Wis.... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering combines (harvester-threshers). Includes the text: "McCormick-Deering Combines for every farm and ev... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering tractor mowers. Features two photographs of farmers pulling mowers with Farmall tractors. Original c... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two views of two small statues on the grounds of the Holy Ghost Church. The bases on which these statues stand are encrusted with shells, bits of glass, sm... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Indoor portrait of Alexander and Florentina Krueger sitting at either end of the dining room table. The table is set with a knit table cloth and candelabra... |
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