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Extra Figure from Capitol Posts

Date: 1879
Description: One of the eight female figures purchased from the Chicago firm Gould Brothers and Dribblee to be used on the gate posts of the Wisconsin State Capitol fen...
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McFarland Lutheran Church and Cemetery

Date: 1869
Description: View of the McFarland Lutheran church and cemetery. The church was started in 1869 and in use in 1873. It was dedicated on January 23, 1876. The church w...
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St. Columkill's Church

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Description: View of the church with the cemetery in the foreground.
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Beaver Creek Lutheran Church

Date: 1945
Description: View of a rural church on a hill and its adjacent cemetery. Beaver Creek Lutheran Church was or still is a Norwegian church.
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Norwegian Lutheran Church

Date: 09 11 1927
Description: A view of the Norwegian Lutheran Church and cemetery, built in 1852. The building was originally built with logs and was later faced with boards.
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Norwegian Lutheran Church

Date: 09 11 1927
Description: A view of the Norwegian Lutheran Cemetery on the site of the Norwegian Lutheran Church, founded in 1852.
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Graveyard in Black River Falls

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Description: Graveyard with buildings in the background.
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Lucille Ballweg Funeral

Date: 08 02 1948
Description: Scene in the cemetery near Martinsville during the internment of Lucille Ballweg, victim of a tornado.
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Prison Cemetery

Date: 1955
Description: Cemetery surrounded by trees. There is a fence and field in the distance.
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Potter's Field Cemetery and Orchard

Date: 10 19 1949
Description: "Potter's Field," a cemetery site of the county asylum near Verona. One of the proposed areas for the construction of a county hospital for the chronically...
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Road Construction with International Trucks

Date: 07 25 1925
Description: A line of International trucks are parked in a line along a dirt road lined with fences and power lines. Each truck has a load of dirt, and metal forms are...
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Ho-Chunk Log Grave House

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Description: View of a Ho-Chunk log grave house in a wooded area.
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Ironton Monument

Date: 1910
Description: A stone obelisk marks the grave of Jonas Tower in a country cemetery. A smaller obelisk stands to the left, and other grave markers can be seen in the bac...
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Cornfield and Cemetery

Date: 09 1967
Description: View over cornfield of a cemetery on the side of a hill surrounded by a fence. On the hill behind the cemetery are more cornfields.
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Country Cemetery

Date: 07 21 1963
Description: View of a small cemetery in the countryside with a tree in the center. The cemetery is enclosed by a thin metal fence with gate. There is a hill in the bac...
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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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Yellowstone Church

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Description: A depiction of the Yellowstone Church of rural Lafayette County, just a few miles from the Kammerude farm. The church is built from locally quarried limest...
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Houses on a Rural Road

Date: 05 30 1916
Description: View down center of rural dirt road with houses along both sides in Black Hawk County. A man and horse are in a field on the left, near a sign that says: "...
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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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