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Al. Ringling Theater

Date: 1950
Description: View across street of the Al. Ringling Theater with a Studebaker pickup truck in the foreground. There is a hardware store on the right.
Postcard

Oak Street

Date: 1925
Description: View down Oak Street, with storefronts on the left, and a park on the right. Caption reads: "Oak St. Looking South, Baraboo, Wis."
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Ringling Brothers Circus Winter Quarters

Date: 1930
Description: The Ringling Brothers circus stored equipment in these buildings during the winter. Two cars are parked outside an auto repair and moving store.
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Little Prairie School

Date: 1950
Description: View of the Little Prairie school with a car parked alongside it. Playground equipment is in the yard.
Postcard

High School

Date: 1915
Description: View from field towards the high school. There is a small group of people sitting on front steps, and an automobile is parked in front on the left. Houses ...
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Main Street

Date: 1940
Description: Main Street, showing a grocery store, restaurant, and the Up and Down Tavern.
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Art's Tavern

Date: 1940
Description: Exterior view from street of Art's Tavern.
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Ferry at Merrimac

Date: 1940
Description: Colsac Ferry across the Wisconsin River at Merrimac. There is a bridge across the river in the background on the left.
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Dad's Bar

Date: 1940
Description: Customers standing outside the small bar are probably waiting to take the ferry across the river.
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Railroad Depot

Date: 1967
Description: Railroad Depot. North Freedom is the home of the Mid-Continent Railway Museum which operates excursion tours on a steam railroad.
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Merrimac Ferry

Date: 1900
Description: Car boarding the ferry on left side. The far shoreline can be seen in the background.
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Parson's Indian Trading Post

Date: 1940
Description: Several men, some in Native American dress, stand on the roof of Parson's Indian Trading Post. The building is designed to look like a pueblo.
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Nofsinger Family with Model T Ford

Date: 06 09 1929
Description: The Nofsinger family poses with their automobile, a Model T Ford.
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Automobile on Dirt Road

Date: 1929
Description: View of a man driving an automobile on a dirt road in Ableman. Rock formations are on both sides of the road, and rocks and trees are in the background.
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Lewis Arms in a Hudson Convertible

Date: 08 21 1952
Description: Lewis Arms is seated in a 1949 yellow Hudson convertible at Bernard Arms's farm. A man is standing in the background near another automobile parked near th...
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Lewis, Nellie and Bernard Arms

Date: 08 21 1952
Description: From left to right are Lewis, Nellie and Bernard Arms posing behind a convertible on Old Lake Road, with Bernard and Nellie's house in the background.
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Nellie Arms and Her Cat

Date: 10 24 1954
Description: Nellie Arms, aunt of Lewis Arms, holds a cat outdoors at the farm she shared with her husband Bernard.
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Tuffy and the '49 Pontiac

Date: 1955
Description: Bernard Arms's dog Tuffy plays outdoors, with Lewis Arms' 1949 Pontiac automobile parked in the grass in the background.
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Arms Family at Devil's Lake

Date: 1956
Description: Lewis, LuRay, Nellie and Bernard Arms arrive at Devil's Lake in a maroon DeSoto convertible automobile. This was the day after Lewis and LuRay's wedding.
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Bernard and Nellie Arms

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Description: Bernard Arms poses with his wife Nellie. There is an automobile (possibly a Chevrolet) in the background.

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