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Camp of Road Construction Crew

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Description: Campground for employees of the Nelson Weber Construction Company photographed for the Wisconsin Good Roads Association during the early 1920s. Such facili...
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Two Women in a Horse-Drawn Buggy

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Description: A portrait of two women sitting in a horse-drawn buggy stopped in front of a wooden fence and a log house. Photographer's shawdow is in foreground.
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Creek Running Under Footbridge

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Description: Two men are near a creek, swollen with rainwater, running through Center Park. A footbridge crosses the creek which has large stones along its banks. Trees...
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Construction Workers Walking through Neighborhood

Date: 1937
Description: Large group of construction workers walking through neighborhood of houses that are in the middle of being constructed.
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George Monegar's Winter and Summer Lodges

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Description: In a clearing surrounded by trees is a Ho-Chunk winter lodge on the left, and a Ho-Chunk summer lodge on the right. A Ho-Chunk woman is sitting inside the ...
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Ho-Chunk Couple with Dog

Date: 1890
Description: A Ho-Chunk couple and their dog outside of their winter home (ciiporoke). A Hudson Bay blanket is hanging over the door opening. The long tree branches lea...
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Three Ho-Chunk Women and Infant in Front of Log House

Date: 1910
Description: View across yard towards three unidentified women and an infant posing in front of a log home located near Wittenberg. It seemed strange to many Ho-Chunk t...
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Ho-Chunk Man and Woman near Winter Lodge

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Description: A Ho-Chunk man and woman posing standing in front of a Ho-Chunk winter lodge. The man is reportedly blind. In the background there is a horse and snow on t...
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Elderly Ho-Chunk Man in Lodge Doorw ay

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Description: An Elderly Ho-Chunk man is posing standing in the doorway of a lodge. He has a fringed shawl wrapped around him and is wearing a head covering, necklaces, ...
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Elderly Ho-Chunk Woman and Ho-Chunk Girl Posing Near Lodge

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Description: An elderly Ho-Chunk woman posing sitting and holding a cane, and a Ho-Chunk girl standing next to her, are outside the closed doorway of a Ho-Chunk lodge i...
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Children Playing in front of Porch

Date: 09 1939
Description: View from road of a group of seven children playing in front of a house and on the porch, while a woman holding a bag of groceries walks past on the sidewa...
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Taliesin I Courtyard

Date: 1912
Description: Taliesin I courtyard from the "brow" of the hill looking toward the entry loggia. A young girl on a horse is talking to a young boy under the porte-cochere...
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Rural Route No. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Rural Route No. 3 in Fall Creek, Wisconsin, with a woman in front of a house retrieving mail from a mailbox and a horse-drawn U.S. R.F.D. ma...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 514-521

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Description: Put aside anything so futile

All that fermented time
spent and blackened, much obscured,
is now restored with cheese and wine
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Visiting the Orchard

Date: 05 30 1916
Description: Family of four seated in a car near the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society orchard. The car is parked on a country road in front of a house.

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