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Cary Bass with American Flag

Date: 1897
Description: The photographer's son Cary waves an American flag in front of their home in Montello, now 131 East Montello Street.
Photograph

Quarry Scene

Date: 1910
Description: View over quarry towards two men in suits sitting at the top edge of the cut face of the granite quarry. In the background is a house at the top of the hil...
Postcard

St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church

Date: 1905
Description: A small church with open bell tower stands along Barstow Street (now East Montello Street/Highway 23) with houses in the background. Trees along the right ...
Postcard

Barstow Street

Date: 1905
Description: The printed inscription identifies this view of "Bairstow [sic] Street, Montello, Wis." It is a view down a sidewalk towards the Methodist Church on the le...
Photograph

Willow Hedge

Date: 1905
Description: An album page with two photographs of a row of willow trees reflected in the mill pond (Montello Lake) behind the residence of E.W. Underwood. In the lower...
Postcard

Society Hill

Date: 1906
Description: Four large, wood frame houses are seen in this view looking west along Lake Avenue. A small brick house with front bay window is visible through the open p...
Photograph

The Montello Cottonwood

Date: 1982
Description: A large, nearly symmetrical cottonwood standing on the front lawn of a granite-clad colonial revival house on Underwood Avenue (Highway 23). A small sign a...
Photograph

Montello Cottonwood

Date: 10 05 2016
Description: A large cottonwood, named Wisconsin's largest tree in the 1970's, standing on Underwood Avenue in front of a two-story granite faced house. There is a cell...
Postcard

Menges Resort

Date: 1940
Description: Photographic postcard view of trees shading the lawn at Menges Resort on Lake Puckaway. There is a two-story wood frame building with a screened porch acro...
Postcard

Fox River Locks

Date: 1940
Description: Photographic postcard view from shoreline looking downstream at the Fox River locks, with a bridge behind it. A boat is tied along the shoreline just below...
Photograph

Concrete Block House

Date: 1910
Description: Six men in work clothes posing near a porch of a house under construction. Hollow core concrete blocks, most likely manufactured on site with local sand an...
Photograph

Family Group

Date: 1913
Description: A group including members of the Von der Sump family posing near a house. Three men stand in the rear and include, from left, Fred von der Sump, Ellis Owen...
Photograph

Ellis Owens

Date: 1905
Description: A young man identified as Ellis Owens is standing on the lawn in front of the porch of a wood frame house. He is wearing a suit with a polka dot vest, and ...
Photograph

Mr. and Mrs. Jim Cheney

Date: 1910
Description: James Cheney and his wife Mary posing outdoors near the side of a house which has a porch. There is a fence and granary in the background, and a tree limb ...
Photograph

Women on Ladder

Date: 1910
Description: Ethel Wallace is sitting on a wooden box in front of five other women who are sitting on the rungs of a ladder propped on the side of a house. A dog is sit...
Photograph

Kusick Family

Date: 1905
Description: A man and woman, most likely Valentine and Elizabeth Kusick, are sitting on their porch steps. They are flanked by two men standing on the lawn, and there ...
Photograph

New House

Date: 1905
Description: Three men, identified on the negative envelope as "Mr. Miller, Boots, and Lavine," are posing on the roof of a large two-story cement block house under con...
Photograph

Wedding Group

Date: 1905
Description: A large group of well-dressed men, women and children are posing in front of a wood frame house. At the center of the group is a man with a boutonniere, pr...
Photograph

Wedding Party

Date: 11 22 1904
Description: Bride Anna Kerns and groom Neil J. Brown posing with their (unidentified) attendants near the front porch of the bride's home at Hickory Hill Farm. The ori...
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Kusick Family

Date: 1905
Description: Valentine Kusick is sitting in the grass in a chair in front of the porch railing of his well-kept house. His wife Elizabeth is sitting at the top of the p...

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