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McCormick-Deering Calendar

Date: 1920
Description: Promotional circular showing the color illustration for a forthcoming farm implement line calendar. Illustration is an artistic rendering of a young woman ...
Photograph

Flute Ceremony

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Description: Ho-Chunk flute ceremony or prayer for rain. Four Ho-Chunk kneel in a square. A flute player and a man with a rattle stand behind on a low, round stone wall...
Photograph

U.S. Navy Ships Company

Date: 03 17 1945
Description: Elevated group portrait of United States Navy, Ships Company.
Photograph

Tollef Gjermundsen Farmstead

Date: 1874
Description: View down hill towards two men in the foreground standing on top of a stone fence looking out onto fields where two or three men are working with two wagon...
Photograph

Girls on a Stone Wall

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Description: Two bonnetted farm girls sit on a stone wall, apparently cracking nuts.
Postcard

Lawe Street Hill

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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...
Photograph

Taliesin

Date: 1915
Description: View of several people posing near the pond and spillway on the grounds of Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's residence and architectural school complex. Talie...
Print

Salisbury House

Date: 1905
Description: Exterior view of the Salisbury house, with a horse-drawn wagon located to the left side of the home and William Salisbury, John Salisbury, Mrs. William Sal...
Postcard

Peninsula State Park

Date: 1954
Description: View looking west from Eagle Bluff toward Nicolet Bay, the Strawberry Islands, and Chambers Island. Three people are sitting on the stone wall of the overl...
Photograph

Sunset Point

Date: 09 30 1949
Description: Mrs. Scott McGlasson, nee Shirley-Mae Riker, sitting on a stone wall at Sunset Point. She lives in Pomona, California, and is visiting her family in Madiso...
Photograph

Trying to Ride a Bucking Bronco

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a ranch hand riding a bucking horse. To the left is a man or boy standing near the stone wall enclosure. In the background are hi...
Photograph

Episcopal church

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Description: Elevated view of the church with a main entrance on the side. The building is covered in clapboard siding and shingles, with round and arched window,s and ...
Photograph

Northern End of Jerusalem and Group of Fishermen #1702

Date: 1893
Description: A group of men in robes standing on a rock are facing to the left, perhaps in prayer. Behind and below them is a crowd gathered in front of a high stone wa...
Photograph

Akra, The Central Portion of Jerusalem #1704

Date: 1893
Description: A depiction of Akra in Jerusalem on the day of Jesus' crucifixion. A busy landscape of people, animals, and shelters.
Photograph

Eastern end of Mount Zion of City of David #1705

Date: 1893
Description: A depiction of Jerusalem on the day of Jesus' crucifixion. This may be the Eastern end of Mount Zion or the City of David. Text at right: "Wanderings Among...
Photograph

Tower of Hippicus and Phasaelis #1707

Date: 1893
Description: A depiction of the Tower of Phasealis on the day of Jesus' crucifixion.
Photograph

Damascus Road and Old Caravansary #1711

Date: 1893
Description: A replication of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Depicted is the Damascus Road, the site where Saint Paul is believed to have converted to Christianity. T...
Photograph

Garden of Joseph of Arimathea and Damascus Road #1712

Date: 1893
Description: A replication of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Depicted is the Damascus Road and the garden of Joseph of Arimathea. Joseph of Arimathea was a wealthy ma...
Photograph

Garden of Joseph of Arimathea and Tomb #1713

Date: 1893
Description: A replication of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Depicted is the garden of Joseph of Arimathea and the tomb where Jesus is believed to be the buried. A Ro...
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Bodden Barn

Date: 2004
Description: Todd and Mary Alice Bodden, Matthew (14) and Thomas (10), live at N8202 Hwy 175 (Section 23). This barn has been in the Bodden family since 1851.

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