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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a man on a horse-drawn mower. In the background are the ruins of a large building, probably a church. |
| 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: | View across the Yahara River towards a tall smokestack on the opposite shoreline, with Lake Mendota in the background. Remnants of the foundation and suppo... |
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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... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the front of the disintegrating Benjamin Walker Castle. Much of the window glass is broken out, and the sandstone bricks are eroding or br... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards Sid Boyum fishing while standing on a pile of rocks near a river. Near Sid on the opposite shoreline is a collapsed building on... |
| Date: | 04 06 1975 |
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| Description: | View of the 2800 block of Atwood Avenue showing the condition of the sidewalk. Show three sets of people's legs walking toward a large hole and cracks in t... |
| Date: | 10 2013 |
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| Description: | View across farmyard towards a silo standing in a corner made by two barn buildings. The barn is made of wood on a stone foundation, and is showing signs o... |
| Date: | 05 2014 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the weathered footbridge spanning the Tenney Park lagoon near Marston Avenue. The word "Marston" is carved into the side of the b... |
| Date: | 06 2014 |
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| Description: | View through chain-link fence towards the railroad trestle that spans the Wisconsin River, worn with age, and split apart in the middle. There is a padlock... |
| Date: | 1993 |
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| Description: | An old and worn windmill standing in a field. Overgrown shrubs are climbing up the base of the windmill. A road and farm buildings are in the far distance.... |
| 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: | View across field towards an old barn and silo standing above a grove of trees and bushes. In the foreground is an old agricultural implement in the overgr... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Caption on reverse reads: "An old Chippewa Indian meditates as he puffs a new-fangled pipe of peace." He is seated on a hillock of grass with a pole in one... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | The ruins of a wooden counter and shelves in the abandoned Mac Laren's Hudson's Bay Company Store near Sturgeon lake. A portion of the roof is missing. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the dilapidated, abandoned Mac Laren's Hudson's Bay Company Store near Sturgeon Lake. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | The ruins of an abandoned log house. The roof has fallen in. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Workers strain to move a heavy limb which has been cut from the large black locust tree which grew along Observatory Drive on the University of Wisconsin c... |
| 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... |
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