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Aerial View of Town and Mississippi River

Date: 1900
Description: Aerial view of town. The Mississippi River and far shoreline is in the background. The Furnace Branch creek runs through the town in the foreground.
Postcard

Creamery in Clear Lake

Date: 1910
Description: View of the side of the creamery, with two men standing at an open door at the end of the building on the left. Caption reads: "Creamery Clear Lake Wis."
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Girl Scout Phyllis Sanders Gathering Firewood

Date: 05 07 1955
Description: Girl Scout Phyllis Sanders of Madison gathering firewood for cooking lunch during a one day Roundup of the Girl Scouts, Brownies, and Intermediates of Dist...
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"Rock Church"

Date: 1910
Description: The "Rock Church". At this time there were only two churches in or near Livingston; one a Free Methodist and the other a Methodist Episcopal Church. This i...
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Phillips' Residence

Date: 1890
Description: Old Uncle Billy Johnson home at Governor Phillip's house, about six miles north of Prairie du Sac near highway 12. Portion of house, rock formation in back...
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Man in Horse-Drawn Cart

Date: 1892
Description: Man in a striped suit seated in a cart and holding the reins of a horse. Woodpiles are visible along a nearby wall and fence line.
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Canoe Outdoors near House

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Description: A canoe rests on sawhorses in front of a stack of firewood and frame house.
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Two Farmers with Cart

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Description: A man and a boy are standing next to a pair of yoked oxen pulling a cart. The boy near the animals has a lash in his hand, and the man behind him is loadin...
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Indian School

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Description: Native American children, presumably students, and adults pose outside an Indian school. The location is not verified, but may be in the Hayward vicinity.
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New Glarus House

Date: 03 01 1949
Description: The New Glarus chalet home of Ernest Thierstein. It is an example of authentic Bernese architecture of canton Bern in Switzerland.
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David Goodvillage Standing on Snowy Ground with Horse

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Description: David Goodvillage (WauHeTonChoEKah), standing with his horse who is loaded with supplies, including cattail mats, snowshoes and canvases, for a hunting and...
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Ho-Chunk Man and Woman near Winter Lodge

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Description: A Ho-Chunk man and woman posing standing in front of a Ho-Chunk winter lodge. The man is reportedly blind. In the background there is a horse and snow on t...
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Hickory Grove School

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Description: View across field of stone school building with outhouse and a wood pile. In the background is a church with a belfry. A road is along the right leading up...
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Decaying Wood Lot

Date: 05 29 1960
Description: Rotted sections of firewood abandoned in a country woodlot. Circular cut logs are strewn about the ground. Nearby is a stack of lumber.
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Libby Prison

Date: 1864
Description: Stereograph of the main building, a tenement (loft style) building, at Libby Prison.
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Man Sawing Logs

Date: 1912
Description: A man cutting logs with a circular table saw powered by a stationary engine. In the background is a storefront, with hay bales and an advertisement for Wri...
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Men Sawing Logs in the Field

Date: 1912
Description: Two men cutting logs with a circular saw powered by a stationary engine. One man is feeding logs to the saw while the other man is standing by a pile of th...
Painting

Maple Sugaring

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Description: Two men work at running sap from maple trees. Buckets are hanging beneath the sap spouts or "spiles" inserted into holes drilled in the trees. A team of ho...
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Man Butchering Chicken

Date: 1921
Description: A man is using an axe to butcher a chicken on a tree stump. A large pile of firewood is in the background.
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Dangers While Chopping Wood

Date: 06 1927
Description: Two men chop wood beside a wooden shed at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm. One man raises an axe while steadying a piece of wood with ...

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