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View from Slope of New Glarus

Date: 05 27 1961
Description: A view overlooking the edge of the town, taken from an eastern slope, with a farm and cows in the foreground.
Photograph

Abandoned Stock Yard Buildings

Date: 11 03 1963
Description: Exterior view of two abandoned stock yard buildings. Between the buildings is the unused loading chute.
Photograph

Abandonded Farm with Windmill

Date: 06 09 1963
Description: View of a dilapidated outbuilding and a windmill on an abandoned farm.
Photograph

Abandoned Farm with Overgrown Yard

Date: 09 04 1967
Description: An abandoned farm with overgrown foliage. In the background is a farmhouse. The doorway is detailed with decorative pilasters or engaged columns flanking t...
Photograph

Barn and Silo

Date: 09 04 1967
Description: Rear view of a barn with stone foundation and a cement silo. In the foreground are overgrown shrubs and grass.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 394-399

Date: 
Description: In the afternoon, nothing
Overnight, unseen

In the morning, a wooden horse with strangers
sending telegrams for more
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 473-481

Date: 
Description: The bargain was that the driven wedge
would never be withdrawn
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 489-497

Date: 
Description: The monument is now

The place is ripe for building a roll-call
of seekers out of the earth

For each, his glory is the doing
and his dre...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 554-561

Date: 
Description: The Winter was a legacy of crusted weights
now melted with the Passing of the Snow
so closed and callous differences can soften
to the hope for co...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 697-705

Date: 
Description: A child could count in rounded numbers
the Christmas chance of pudding from the sky
Photograph

Abandoned Barn

Date: 1960
Description: Exterior view of a barn on an abandoned farm.
Photograph

Abandoned Farm

Date: 1960
Description: Abandoned farm along Highway 51.
Photograph

Tree-Veiled Farm

Date: 05 10 1960
Description: View through the trees of an abandoned farm.

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