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Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog

Date: 1887
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of farmers in a field with a horse-dra...
Photograph

Lombardy Poplars

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Description: A rural lane lined with Lombardy poplars runs between two fenced fields. Two men are standing in the lane looking towards the camera. A church and many oth...
Photograph

Children by the Reverend Abraham Jacobson Home

Date: 1877
Description: Three children stand at the corner of the home of the Reverend Abraham Jacobson (1836-1910) and his wife Nicoline Hegg Jacobson. Two adults stand in a tree...
Photograph

Union Congregational Church

Date: 1870
Description: View of the front of the Union Congregational Church, a Greek Revival structure, built in 1862. A carriage shed and cemetery are adjacent to the church.
Photograph

View from Hill of Cross Plains

Date: 1928
Description: View from hill of uptown Cross Plains with the Catholic Church (St. Francis Xavier) and farmhouses.
Painting

Holy Hill

Date: 1930
Description: Holy Hill.
Photograph

View of Theresa, Wisconsin

Date: 1907
Description: View of Theresa, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Wisconsin Heights, Sauk City, Wisconsin

Date: 1896
Description: Elevated view. Caption on negative sleeve reads: "Black Hawk Battlefield. Wis. Heights. Looking N. of E. up valley towards Catholic Church. Mrs. Charles N....
Photograph

Suomi Synod Church

Date: 07 1947
Description: Exterior view of Suomi Synod Church. A farm is visible in the distance.
Photograph

Metal Collected for Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Two men stand outdoors by a pile of scrap metal intended for donation to the war effort at the Chapman and Follmer International Harvester dealership. A ro...
Photograph

Our Lady of the Valley

Date: 1950
Description: View of a hooded Trappist monk on a tractor. A large pile of hay is on the left. The Our Lady of the Valley abbey and a wooden structure are in the backgro...
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

U.B. Church

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Description: Exterior of the one-room United Brethren [?] Church. There is an outhouse to the left of the church. On the right is a hill with trees. Farm building and a...
Photograph

Elevated View of Belleville

Date: 1916
Description: Bird's-eye view of town. Fields, with farms and fences, surround the town made up of numerous dwellings and a church.
Photograph

Bird's Eye View

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of Browntown. In the foreground are farm buildings.
Photograph

General View

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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...
Photograph

Theresa Village Marker

Date: 02 01 1978
Description: "In the early morning hours, a new month dawns on the small village of Theresa. The village is now in the 130th year of its existence." The village marke...
Photograph

Church

Date: 02 1978
Description: Elevated view of the town's elaborate brick church featuring a central steeple.
Photograph

Village View

Date: 02 16 1978
Description: "Village of Theresa, looking north."
Photograph

Albert Knowles

Date: 1920
Description: Albert Knowles, brother-in-law of William Wade, at Herrling Farm. The Greenbush Baptist Church is visible in the background.

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