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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A Yankee-built Greek Revival frame house from the 1840s. The small dark rectangular plaque above the door is a Madison Mutual Insurance Company sign that i... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Allouez Monument, near the site of St. Francis Xavier mission which was established by Father Claude Allouez at De Pere Rapids in the winter of 1671-72. Er... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Monument to Father Claude Allouez, near the site of St. Francis Xavier mission established by him. The monument was erected in 1899 by the citizens of De P... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Close-up view of the Big Foot village marker erected by the Geneva Lake Historical Society. The plaque reads: "A village of Potawatomi Indians occupied the... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View of a marker commemorating Old Helena. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A linear burial mound and historic marker at the University Ridge mound group on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The mound group was eventually... |
| Date: | 05 05 1939 |
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| Description: | Charles E. Brown poses near a historic tablet marking one of a row of conical burial mounds on the Park and Pleasure drive on the north shore of Lake Wingr... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A sign with a garland around it, and pennants on poles are hanging above a plaque at International Harvester's Breslau branch house. The sign is in German,... |
| Date: | 09 04 1925 |
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| Description: | A man sits behind the wheel of an International truck used by the Ideal Laundry Company. In the background is a building with a sign over the door that say... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of four men and their horses harness racing down a road, with crowds of spectators on the sides, during a county fair in southwestern Wiscons... |
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| Description: | The high school building erected in 1908. The building features three stories, a bell tower, and a hip roof. A small child stands in front of the building. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the German Lutheran Church. The sign says "Deutsch Kirche." |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Monument dedicated to the first settlers of Coon Valley. The monument is in Norwegian. There is a cemetery in the distance. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Zebras in the Berlin zoo stretching their necks for what they think may be a treat. It appears that the man is holding a camera. The photograph was taken b... |
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| Description: | Colorized view of the First State Capitol, which is a wood frame building, painted white, with a flag and a plaque in front. Caption reads: "First Wisconsi... |
| Date: | 06 1972 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips, standing on right, is in a brown and blue patterned buba (a Yoruba blouse) and holding a bouquet of flowers. Next to her (second from right) ... |
| Date: | 11 01 1955 |
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| Description: | Raymond Sivesind, director of the sites and markers program of the State Historical Society, as a speaker in the dedication and unveiling ceremony, stands ... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Possibly the officers of the Wisconsin Chapter of the Junior National Association of the Deaf sitting in front of the historical marker documenting Wiscons... |
| Date: | 02 14 2015 |
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| Description: | View of a corner of the Limnology Center on the shoreline of Lake Mendota. The building overhang is shading a walkway along the shore. A memorial stone and... |
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