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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A restored Cornish miner's house, called Polperro, built in the 1840s, on Shake Rag Street undergoing restoration. The house was temporarily covered with s... |
| Date: | 07 1987 |
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| Description: | "This workman is painting 'Theresa' on the water tower." |
| Date: | 11 1987 |
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| Description: | "A workman was photographed as final touches were being completed on the reshingled roof of the Solomon Juneau Home." |
| Date: | 06 10 1997 |
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| Description: | "A cupola is added to the Historic White Limestone School in Mayville." |
| Date: | 06 10 1997 |
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| Description: | "Sporting three cameras, Mayville's famous photographer, Edgar G. Mueller, was photographed as he recorded the cupola restoration on the White Limestone Sc... |
| Date: | 06 10 1997 |
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| Description: | "Photographer Edgar G. Mueller of Mayville." |
| Date: | 06 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Ruth DeYoung Kohler II, presents the key to Wade House to Dr. William McKern, of the Wisconsin State Historical Society. The century-old stagecoach inn and... |
| Date: | 06 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Carl Sandburg posing with two of the guides at Wade house during his visit to the restored stagecoach inn for its dedication as a historic site. Speaking a... |
| Date: | 09 15 1937 |
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| Description: | View looking up towards the back of the log mill building, which is built into the side of a hill. There are three small window openings. Two wheelbarrows ... |
| Date: | 09 1937 |
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| Description: | View of side of the McCormick Mill, built into the side of a hill on the right. There are small windows, one on the lower level, and another on the upper l... |
| Date: | 01 1938 |
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| Description: | Men are standing on scaffolding working on the roof near the top of the chimney. A tree is near the log building on the right, and mountains are in the dis... |
| Date: | 01 1938 |
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| Description: | Men are standing on scaffolding working on the roof near the top of the chimney. A tree is near the log building on the right. Handwritten on back: "Slave ... |
| Date: | 02 07 1938 |
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| Description: | Man standing outdoors using a frow to split shingles. |
| Date: | 02 07 1938 |
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| Description: | Man using an axe to split wood for shingles. |
| Date: | 02 07 1938 |
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| Description: | Handwritten on back: "3. Man at right is cutting off sap wood. R. Man at left is using a frow (knife) to split block into thinner sections." |
| Date: | 02 07 1938 |
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| Description: | A man is making split shingles. Handwritten on back: "5. A thin section of block being split to shingle thickness with the aid of the frow[sic]." |
| Date: | 02 07 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men are sawing a log. Handwritten on back: "1. Sawing white oak log the required length." |
| Date: | 02 07 1938 |
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| Description: | Handwritten on back: "2. Man at right is taking out the heart wood. 6. Man at left is finishing completed shingles with draw knife." |
| Date: | 02 07 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men working outdoors making split shingles. |
| Date: | 02 15 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing on the stone wall, and another man is standing on scaffolding inside the dam. In the foreground are large stones, logs, and water. Han... |
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