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Steamboat "Clyde"

Date: 1870
Description: The sidewheel steam rafter "Clyde," which was the first iron hull steamboat. Sign on side of boat reads: "Dubuque, Reads Landing & Eau Claire." Agricultura...
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Locomotive No. 539

Date: 1882
Description: View across railroad tracks of two men posing near the right side of locomotive no. 539 on another set of railroad tracks. The locomotive was built by the ...
Painting

Farm Painting

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Description: Farm painting of the Pierson Young residence.
Print

Merry Christmas

Date: 1918
Description: Holiday card with the American Eagle, gripping lightening bolts, ribbons and holly in his talons. In the background are clouds and a map of the United Stat...
Photograph

New High School

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Description: The exterior of the high school. The building features a bell tower, tall chimney, arched doorway and Dutch/Flemish gable. There is a hand-powered well nea...
Photograph

German English Lutheran Church

Date: 1924
Description: Exterior of the German English Lutheran Church. The church has a gable roof and a steeple with a bell. In the foreground is a fence and field, and in the b...
Photograph

Mount Ida Public School

Date: 1921
Description: Exterior of the public schoolhouse, which features a bell tower and two arched entrances.
Print

A Typical Country District School House in Price County

Date: 1895
Description: The front (left) and back (right) of a promotional card advertising farming land in northern Wisconsin.

The caption below the image reads: "A typical cou...

Photograph

Widmer Cheese Factory

Date: 02 02 1993
Description: "Tour guide, Ralph Widmer, displays a Swiss cow bell to visiting AFS students at Widmer's Cheese Factory. Students were from Thailand, Yugoslavia, Germany,...
Magazine or Periodical

The New Year—1869

Date: 01 1869
Description: Engraving after a drawing by Winslow Homer showing a crowned Baby New Year riding a velocipede through a hoop held by a woman, as the Grim Reaper, on the r...
Photograph

Preston Church

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Description: Wooden church with a bell tower and a stable in the back on the right. Fences and fields are in the background.
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1909
Description: Exterior view of the public school from unpaved road. The building is a two-story wood frame building with a flat roof and bell tower with a flag pole on t...
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1925
Description: A one-story wood frame school with a lightning rod or flagpole on the bell tower. A hand water pump is near the front entrance, and a tire swing is wrapped...
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1922
Description: Exterior view of the public school, a two-story brick building in a rural area with small bell tower on the roof above the entrance. There is a flagpole on...
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1929
Description: View of front of the public school, a two-story brick building with a cupola and flagpole over the bell. A cornfield and bluff are in the background.
Photograph

Christian Church

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Description: View of front of a wooden rural church, with a columned porch, belfry and steeple. There is a weather vane on the steeple. A wood and wire fence surrounds ...
Photograph

Affiliated Church

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Description: Three-quarter view from across a road of the Affiliated Church. An arched stained glass window is in the front on the left. Tall rectangular stained glass ...
Photograph

Milk Maid

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Description: View towards a woman wearing a dress and a bonnet posing standing and holding a pail near cows. There are fields on the left and right, and wooden building...
Photograph

Men Using Farmall Tractor to Power Saw

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Side view of two men using a Farmall tractor to power a saw that they are using to cut logs. Behind the woodpile is a bell on a small wooden tower. In the ...
Photograph

Holy Wisdom

Date: 04 2014
Description: View down sidewalk towards the Holy Wisdom Monastery. In the distance is Lake Mendota, which is just beyond a field of tall grass and trees. The building h...

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