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Twin Maples — Cottages and Rooms for Rent

Date: 1931
Description: A man and his dog are on the lawn in front of a house. A wooden sign reads, "Cottage and Rooms for Rent." Another sign below advertises for "N.F. Sherman 2...
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Devil's Lake CCC Barracks

Date: 1935
Description: Interior view of Civilian Conservation Corps barracks at Devil's Lake State Park. Several men can be seen sitting leisurely on their bunks. Two heating sto...
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Island Woolen Mills Billhead

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Description: Billhead of Island Woolen Mills of Baraboo, Wisconsin, with a three-quarter view of M.J. Drown's Island Woolen Mills building, people loading a horse-drawn...
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Portrait of a Man

Date: 1908
Description: A copy print of a studio portrait of a seated African American man with a full beard. He wears a tattered hat and soiled overalls and jacket.
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"Going to State" Basketball Tournaments

Date: 03 12 1956
Description: Sauk City Mayor Gilbert (Gilly) Meyer discusses the state tournament with Cliff Lyons, the high school's official basketball scorekeeper for the last 12 ye...
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"Going to State" Basketball Tournaments

Date: 03 12 1956
Description: Barber Clarence (Hap) Lang discusses basketball with customer Joe Bernhard, while Nick Truckenbrodt, Herman Bings, Jerry Lochner, Ray Lueth, and Syl Faskin...
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Women on Cliff

Date: 03 22 1889
Description: Evaline Helen Marshall and unidentified woman on a rock cliff over Devil's Lake.
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Sauk City Main Street

Date: 1924
Description: View down center of Main Street. On the left is a soda shop/confectioner, with two women and a baby carriage on the sidewalk in front. Further down is a ch...
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Post-Cammack Theatre

Date: 1922
Description: View from unpaved street of the Post-Cammack Theatre on a corner, with coming attraction posters in the windows. Three men are standing on the sidewalk in ...
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Group in front of General Store Counter

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Description: A general store counter at Weigands Bay. Two women are behind the counter, with boxes of cigars on display behind them. Other canned goods are on the shelv...
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Wreck Near Reedsburg

Date: 1931
Description: View from road of a man standing near his overturned car smoking a cigarette. His coat is lying across the side of the car. In the background is a barbed w...
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A Turkey at Krueger's

Date: 1925
Description: A man wearing a cap and apron holds a (likely taxidermied) Tom turkey while a second man offers the turkey a drink from a bottle. Wooden boxes labelled "Ol...
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Eight Men

Date: 1925
Description: Seven men, five in work clothes and two wearing suits pose on the steps in front of a wooden building, which is a machine shop, with large paned windows. O...
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Bonfire

Date: 1918
Description: Men in hats are gathered around a nighttime bonfire, which was probably part of an anti-German demonstration.
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World War I Rally

Date: 1918
Description: A crowd has gathered facing a corner of the Sauk County Courthouse square where a man, elevated above the crowd, waves an American flag. A bonfire burns on...
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Coach House at Dawn Manor

Date: 
Description: View of the Dawn Manor coach house, which shows a woman standing next to the fence and a man posing with a horse-drawn carriage.
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Building the Bathhouse

Date: 1935
Description: Men wearing hats and long overcoats are walking toward the camera from the bathhouse at Devil's Lake State Park. Other men in work clothes, members of the ...
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Resting at Devil's Lake

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Description: Three motorcycle riders are posing on boulders along the shore of Devil's Lake. One rider (a woman?) is partially out of the frame on the left. Elmer, righ...
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Enjoying the View

Date: 1940
Description: The description on the reverse of this print describes the scene: "A horseback rider pauses to view the beauties of Devils Lake nestled among the bluffs at...
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Leykauf Bluff

Date: 1950
Description: A young girl wearing a winter coat and hat is standing in a tilled field at the base of Cassell, or Leykauf, Bluff. A description on the reverse of the pri...

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