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Students Disembark from International School Bus

Date: 03 28 1938
Description: Hadley-Luzerne Central School students with books and lunch pails getting off of an International D-40 school bus. The bus featured a 215-inch wheelbase an...
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Iceboating at Madison, Wisconsin

Date: 03 09 1878
Description: Illustration by N.A. Greenback of ice-skaters and iceboats featuring the new Poughkeepsie design of pivoting runners. A key at the bottom of the image iden...
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The 'Hixton House' and the Methodist Church

Date: 
Description: Portrait of several buildings and a snowy landscape, probably in Hixton. A man is standing outside the first building on the left, which has a sign on the ...
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Dentist Office and Church

Date: 1900
Description: View from across street of a dentist office and Baptist Church along a road. Two horse-drawn carriages are being driven in opposite directions on the road.
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Woman Stands Outside of a Western Union Office

Date: 04 1930
Description: A woman stands outside of the Western Union office at 650 State Street. She is next to a Western Union sign and several bicycles, and there is snow on the ...
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Western Union Messengers Pose with Bicycle

Date: 04 1930
Description: Three Western Union messenger boys pose with a bicycle in front of the Western Union sign at 650 State Street. There is snow on the ground. The messenger b...
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Immanuel Church

Date: 1908
Description: A view of the Evangelical Society's Immanuel Church on Hamilton Street, as seen from North Pinckney Street. Snow covers the ground and a horse-drawn sleigh...
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Main Street

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Description: View at an intersection looking down snowy street across railroad tracks. There are storefronts on both sides. A streetlamp hangs from a utility line. At t...
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Children Boarding School Bus

Date: 02 24 1978
Description: "School children boarding bus #14 after school."
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Funeral Service at Zion Lutheran Church

Date: 02 16 1978
Description: "Carrying the casket from Zion, the small country church."
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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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Evangelical Lutheran Church

Date: 
Description: Large group, probably a congregation, posed standing in front of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by a snow-covered road, east of the Jackson County Courtho...
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Widmer Cheese Factory Chimney

Date: 03 1979
Description: "Mason, Reuben Schuster, lays brick on the Widmer Cheese Factory chimney."
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Blockhouse and Dugout

Date: 1918
Description: View across snow of a soldier with a rifle standing near a timber and sandbag constructed blockhouse. In the distance is a Russian town. The most prominent...
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U.S. Hospital and Army Headquarters

Date: 1918
Description: View across snowy ground towards the United States hospital and Army Headquarters for American forces deployed as a part of the Allied Intervention in Nort...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 226-234

Date: 
Description: As a sporting proposition of gaiety infused with taxes
no modern culture could survive
without a touch of France
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Defending the Igloo

Date: 1932
Description: Winter scene with boys in winter coats and hats aiming toy stick guns while posing on an igloo and fort they have built from snow. A church building forms ...
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Market Place and Russian Troops

Date: 1918
Description: A large group of Russian soldiers are assembled and appear to be drilling within the center of a Russian town. Civilians stand off to the side observing th...
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Outpost No. 5

Date: 1918
Description: Two soldiers wearing heavy winter clothes are kneeling behind a Lewis machine gun displayed on a blanket. Immediately behind the two soldiers is what appea...
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U.S. Army Engineer Corps Topographer

Date: 1918
Description: Outdoor view of a U.S. Army Engineer topographer wearing skis while using a tripod stand to write. The engineer is standing next to a barbed wire obstacle ...

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