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Making Dolls

Date: 07 17 1957
Description: A young woman helps a girl make toy dolls out of cloth.
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Wisconsin Hall Painting

Date: 01 14 1973
Description: A folk art painting of a schoolhouse and an American flag, which was painted on boards temporarily covering a broken window at Wisconsin Hall at 126 Langdo...
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Fred Smith's Concrete park

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Description: Detail of a statue of a man at Fred Smith's Concrete Park.
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Fred Smith's Concrete Park

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Description: View of several sculptures, including depictions of people, angels, and various animals in Fred Smith's Concrete Park.
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Fred Smith's Concrete Park

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Description: View of several sculptures in Fred Smith's Concrete Park.
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Moose Statue at Concrete Park

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Description: Sculpture of a moose at Fred Smith's Concrete Park.
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St. Paul's Liberty Lutheran Church

Date: 06 10 1951
Description: Members of the Ladies' Aid Society display a plate bearing a hand-painted image of St. Paul's Liberty Lutheran Church, Deerfield. The plate was painted by ...
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Driftwood "Face"

Date: 10 26 1953
Description: A man holds a piece of driftwood thought to resemble the face of an angry monster. Shown from a different perspective, one can imagine the likeness of a de...
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Driftwood Deer Face

Date: 10 26 1953
Description: A man holds a piece of driftwood thought to resemble the head of a deer. Viewed from another perspective, the same piece looks like a monster. Both images ...
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Barbara Kiechler

Date: 1931
Description: Miss Barbara Kiechler, identified as a 4-H Club worker in Coon Valley, posing on a low wall surrounding the Grotto of the Holy Family on the grounds of Vil...
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Statues in Park

Date: 1940
Description: Two views of two small statues on the grounds of the Holy Ghost Church. The bases on which these statues stand are encrusted with shells, bits of glass, sm...
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Whirligig

Date: 05 2014
Description: Close-up view of a decrepit wooden whirligig about to be retired. The paint on the figure of a man riding a horse is faded, and the blades of the whirligig...
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Great Blue Heron in the Backyard

Date: 02 22 2015
Description: A painted, flat, yard sculpture of a blue heron sitting in the snow in the photographer's yard. A few dead plants are sticking up out of the snow.
Postcard

Front View of Grotto

Date: 1929
Description: Hand-tinted postcard showing the Dickeyville grotto. Postcard caption reads: The Grotto of Christ, the King, and of Mary, his Mother, was conceived, design...
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P.L. Wegner Summer Home

Date: 1929
Description: Text on front reads: "P.L. Wegner Summer Home. S.T.H. 71. Sparta, Wisc." The Paul & Matilda Wegner Grotto aka The Glass Chapel, a concrete structure with a...
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Little Glass Church

Date: 1987
Description: Text on reverse reads: "Paul & Matilda Wegner Grotto. Little Glass Church ca 1930-1934. Located on Highway 71, 1/4 mile west of Hwy. 27, 9 miles north of S...
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Ship Bremen

Date: 1987
Description: Text on reverse reads: "Paul & Matilda Wegner Grotto. Ship Bremen 1930. Located on Highway 71, 1/4 mile west of Hwy. 27, 9 miles north of Sparta, WI. One o...

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