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| Date: | 05 10 1960 |
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| Description: | View through the trees of an abandoned farm. |
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| Description: | View across yard towards a man and woman posing sitting and standing in front of a dilapidated two-story wooden house with broken windows. In the foregroun... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A small abandoned log cabin stands among tall conifers and overgrown brush. There is very little chinking remaining and no glass in the window. The cabin h... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a dam on a river. There is a collapsed bridge in front of the dam, and people standing on the road on the right. Identified as possibly th... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a man using an ox-drawn mower. In the background are the ruins of an abandoned house. |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the disintegrating Benjamin Walker Castle in the 900 block of E. Gorham Street. The castle was built by an Englishman, Benjamin Walker, ab... |
| Date: | 1993 |
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| Description: | View over fence and field towards a dilapidated barn leaning against a silo. A tractor and a piece of agricultural machinery are parked in the field, and i... |
| Date: | 1993 |
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| Description: | An abandoned house surrounded by uncut grass and trees on the side of a road. Snow is covering the ground and lightly covers the roof of the two-story hous... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | The ruins of an abandoned log house. The roof has fallen in. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A simple one-room schoolhouse with a hip roof is standing behind a neglected fence. Most of the window glass is gone and the paint has faded. There is a de... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of an old log structure surrounded by buildings, wagons and wagon parts, fences and trees. It was demolished about 1900. Text printed on the fr... |
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| Description: | The backyard of a house is strewn with junk and flanked by broken fences. Over the back porch is a trellis with bare vines growing on it. Hand-tinted lante... |
| Date: | 12 09 1960 |
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| Description: | The side yard of the Frances Burnett Gallagher residence at 2129 Center avenue. The owner who owns four other properties in that block has received many co... |
| Date: | 12 09 1960 |
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| Description: | The backyard of the Frances Burnett Gallagher residence at 2129 Center Avenue. The owner who owns four other properties in that block has received many com... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Deserted farmstead with a cow standing in the snow at the base of a windmill. The wooden portions of the stone farmhouse are deteriorating, and many pieces... |
| Date: | 09 30 1921 |
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| Description: | View of a collapsed building. Houses are in the background. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Home of the Fourierites, Ripon, Wis. Established May 27, 1844 by followers of Charles Fourier in Ceresco Valley, now a part of Ripon.... |
| Date: | 08 01 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "North and West View, St. John's Institute for Deaf Mutes, St. Francis, Wis. Aug 1, 1907." A partially burned stone and brick building... |
| Date: | 12 04 1957 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a room. The window on the far wall is partially boarded up. The cabinet door under the sink is ajar, the floor has broken or missing piece... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View from street towards the exterior of a damaged building. Bricks and boards are scattered outside it. The roof is missing, and windows are cracked or mi... |
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