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Family and Baby in Grass

Date: 1874
Description: Family seated around table in yard with baby on grass and brick house with porch trim and shutters in background. This house is said to resemble the J. Hil...
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Albion Prairie Methodist Episcopal Church

Date: 1874
Description: View of the Albion Prairie Methodist Episcopal Church, dedicated in 1868. The church has a bell tower, a stone foundation, wide steps and a picket fence r...
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Interior of Primitive Methodist Church

Date: 1874
Description: View of the primitive Albion Prairie Methodist church looking down the aisle between the pews towards the pulpit and a small organ. A prominent stove pipe ...
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Methodist Church

Date: 1874
Description: Albion Prairie Methodist Church, built in 1871 or 1872. It is surrounded by cornfields.
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Albion Academy, Men's Dormitory

Date: 1925
Description: Men's dormitory at Albion Academy. Caption reads: "Albion".
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Albion College

Date: 1869
Description: Engraving of an elevated view of Albion College.
Postcard

Albion College Campus

Date: 1905
Description: View across lawn and trees towards college buildings. Caption reads: "Campus, Albion, Wis."
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Albion Academy and Normal Institute

Date: 1920
Description: Albion Academy and Normal Institute. The school was founded in 1853 by Seventh Day Baptists from Vermont and New York. In 1901, it was taken over by Norweg...
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Albion Academy and Normal Institute

Date: 1920
Description: Albion Academy and Normal Institute. It was founded in 1853 by Seventh Day Baptists from Vermont and New York. In 1901, it was taken over by Norwegian Dist...
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Students at Prairie School

Date: 1932
Description: Students holding books and magazines pose seated in chairs in the Prairie School. Model airplanes hang near the portraits of Abraham Lincoln and George Was...
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North Hall

Date: 1932
Description: North Hall, also known as Chapel Hall, on the campus of Albion Academy. The three-story structure is of brick and has a large cupola. A car is parked along...
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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...
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Clifford Vickers Home

Date: 1932
Description: A two-story brick house, identified as the home of Prairie School pupil Marian Hintz, stands on a well tended lawn. There is a large front bay and curved p...
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Clifford Vickers Home

Date: 1932
Description: Sunlight from the front bay window illuminates the parlor of the Vickers house, identified as the home of Marian Hintz, a pupil at the Prairie School. A co...
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Albion Town Hall

Date: 1932
Description: View across street of car parked in front of a modest neoclassical style building with an arched window over its double front door. It is shaded by a large...
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Harvey Lein

Date: 1932
Description: Harvey Lein, 13, poses with a flock of chickens near a barn. He is wearing a cap and bib overalls and is carrying a bucket. There are bushes blooming in ...
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Spring Creek School

Date: 
Description: View across lawn towards a small wooden school house in a field. The school is the Spring Creek School to the south of Black River Falls.
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Family and Baby in Grass

Date: 1874
Description: Detail from original of part of the family. Original caption reads: "Family seated around table in yard with baby on grass and brick house with porch trim ...

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