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Cross Plains from Lutheran Church Hill

Date: 05 10 1928
Description: The Lutheran Church and buildings, seen from Lutheran Church Hill.
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Wooded Cemetery

Date: 1970
Description: A country cemetery with a row of pine trees in the foreground. In the far distance is a farm.
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Bird's Eye View of Town

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of the town with hills in the distance. In the foreground are cattle inside a fence near a cemetery with a windmill. The town is behind furth...
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Preparing Cemetery Plots

Date: 06 1926
Description: A man uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor and a Perry automatic scraper to prepare the grounds at Mount Emblem Cemetery. Farm buildings are in the back...
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Cemetery Visit

Date: 1958
Description: Local historian William F. Wolf visiting the Native American cemetery. In the background is a barn and a silo and other farm buildings.
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Bird's-Eye View — Boscobel

Date: 1913
Description: View of town. There is a cemetery in the foreground.
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General View

Date: 
Description: View along fence line of a rural area. There is a road on the left and farmland on the right. A person is traveling down the road, visible as a blur. In th...
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Cabin and Cotton Field

Date: 
Description: Exterior view of a small cabin located near a cotton field. There is a cemetery in the far background.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 489-497

Date: 
Description: The monument is now

The place is ripe for building a roll-call
of seekers out of the earth

For each, his glory is the doing
and his dre...
Map or Atlas

Map of Ashland, Wisconsin

Date: 1947
Description: This map of Ashland is a cadastral map showing some rural landowners and includes index to points of interest. The map shows roads, railroads, parks, cemet...
Photograph

Farmland Vista

Date: 1961
Description: Vista over farmland from a small country cemetery.
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Cemetery View

Date: 1961
Description: View over fields, looking out from the cemetery.
Photograph

Cross Plains from Lutheran Church Hill

Date: 1928
Description: View down valley towards the back of the Lutheran Church and cemetery. Houses and barns are in the valley below, and more hills are in the far background. ...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 132

Date: 
Description: The parson came. He said it well:
Enough is all we want, to hold and sleep on,
not the sky.
A little harvest of the sorrows
between the sentenc...
Photograph

Building at Walnut Grove

Date: 
Description: View across field towards a long, stone building. There is a small shed behind the building on the left, and a fence is on the right. A person is walking n...
Map or Atlas

Plat Map of Leroy

Date: 1910
Description: A land ownership map of the township of Leroy.

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