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Photograph

Charles Green

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Description: Charles Green, the last survivor of the African American colony at Pleasant Ridge (near Lancaster, WI) looks out over the community graveyard.
Photograph

Lodi From Cemetery Hill

Date: 1876
Description: A view of the town of Lodi as viewed from the hill north of the cemetery.
Photograph

Cross Plains from Lutheran Church Hill

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

Bird's Eye View of Town

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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...
Photograph

Scenic View

Date: 1921
Description: View from hill of a church [?], shed, and cemetery in a valley. A dirt road is on the left.
Photograph

City View

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Description: Elevated city view from an overlooking mountain. A church and cemetery stand among dwellings.
Photograph

Bird's-Eye View — Boscobel

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

Bird's-Eye View — Boscobel

Date: 1915
Description: View of town. A cemetery is in the foreground and a race track is in the center.
Photograph

Bird's-Eye View of Coon Valley

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of Coon Valley from a hilltop. Trees are on either side of the frame. In the city, there is a cemetery, church, and field of crops.
Postcard

Church and Farmhouses

Date: 1909
Description: Elevated view of a church with cemetery and farmhouses and rolling hills in the distance. Caption reads: "Ashippun, Wis."
Photograph

Bird's-Eye View

Date: 1925
Description: View of a church, field, and cemetery from a hilltop. A car drives down the road in the lower-right corner.
Photograph

Bird's-Eye View of Town

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Description: View from hill over church and cemetery towards fields and town in a valley.
Photograph

River, Cemetery, and Farms

Date: 02 16 1978
Description: "The long lens compresses this view from the frozen Rock River in the foreground, the Catholic cemetery, and the Haag farm buildings in the distance."
Photograph

Parade through Cemetery

Date: 05 30 1967
Description: View of a parade traveling through a cemetery. Beyond, barns and farmhouses can be seen.
Map or Atlas

Peninsula State Park, Door County, Wisconsin

Date: 1916
Description: This Wisconsin Conservation Commission map from 1916 shows Peninsula State Park in the Town of Gibraltar, Door County, Wisconsin. Depicted are open and pla...
Map or Atlas

Peninsula State Park, Door County, Wisconsin

Date: 1916
Description: This version of a 1916 Wisconsin Conservation Commission map shows Peninsula State Park in the Town of Gibraltar, Door County, Wisconsin. Depicted are open...
Photograph

Procession to St. Anne's Hill

Date: 1928
Description: View down valley of a procession of hundreds of pilgrims walking up the hill to St. Anne's Chapel which is lined with Stations of the Cross. The crowd is w...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 235-241

Date: 
Description: New land cut out by real imaginary lines
based in older spirit courses
lay and bedrock, flight of birds and pointed feet
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 489-497

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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...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 784-792

Date: 
Description: Although they remembered everything that could not be tolerated,
their better natures,
surfacing through waves of church-worn care,
prevailed over...

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