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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street on the Capitol Square. Caption reads: "Main Street, looking West." |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of a man sitting on the steps of Town Hall. The Catholic church is in the background. Caption reads: "Town Hall and Church, La P... |
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| Description: | Group of Native Americans-Potowatomi standing in front of rock formation. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Postcard with a color illustration of men and women working in fields. Original caption: "India — Primitive methods are still in use. The Reaping Hook has ... |
| Date: | 06 1914 |
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| Description: | The Aerodome, invented by Samuel Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, as reconstructed by Glenn Curtiss at Hammondsport. |
| Date: | 09 14 1911 |
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| Description: | Calbraith Perry Rodgers in a Wright Model B at Appleton Baseball Park. Cal Rodgers, a member of the famous Perry family, learned to fly at the Wright Flyin... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Monona Lake Assembly, The Casino. This structure, including the ice house and provision space, designed by Conover and Porter and built for $1700.00 in Jun... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Road workers grading a rural country road with an Avery tractor and wooden grading blocks. The image was cropped from a postcard collected by International... |
| Date: | 11 04 1909 |
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| Description: | Color postcard depicting Arthur Pratt Warner of Beloit flying his Curtiss Pusher for the first time, November 4, 1909. Warner was the first person in Wisco... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Two forest rangers are posing on horseback. Handwritten on front: "Forest Rangers at Trout Lake Station." |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard depicting the traditional St. Nicholas figure garbed in a long purple fur-trimmed robe, red fur-trimmed hat and boots. He is pushing a whe... |
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| Description: | Colorized view depicting the Wisconsin Central Railroad bridge at Stevens Point, with several men standing on top of the bridge painting the structure. Cap... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Group of farm workers, men and women, posing in a field, holding various beverages. One man has his arm over a barrel on a stand in the center. In the back... |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Prairie Farm Creamery with horse-drawn wagons in front. Caption reads: "Prairie Farm Creamery, Pr. Farm, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View of Alma across the Mississippi River, with a man in a rowboat in the foreground. Caption reads: "Alma, Wisconsin, from the Mississippi." |
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| Description: | Chief Whirling Thunder, standing at the front of an excursion boat named "Black Hawk," which appears to be near the Wisconsin Dells. Caption reads: "Chief ... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | View across street toward campus. Two men are standing on the sidewalk on the left. Caption reads: "Lawrence College Campus, Appleton, Wis." |
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| Description: | Scenic view of two women standing along a railing on a sidewalk above a stone wall viewing the way to the river. Caption reads: "Lawe Street Hill to Fox Ri... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of Second Street, with an automobile on the street, two sets of streetcar tracks, pedestrians on the sidewalk, and a large brick bui... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View down center of West Park Drive. There is a man driving an automobile on the bridge. Caption reads: "West Park Drive, Wis." |
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