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Polperro House Kitchen

Date: 1940
Description: The kitchen in the restored Cornish miner's house, called Polperro, on Shake Rag Street. The house was temporarily covered with siding, but after restorati...
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Appleton First Public Library

Date: 1887
Description: Interior view of the First Public Library. It was located over Pondee Grocery Store on College Avenue.
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Greenwood Lumber Camp Dining Room

Date: 1900
Description: Interior view of the dining room at the Greenwood lumber camp. The long tables are set with dishes and food, and there is a wood stove between the tables.
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Man Reading in Living Room

Date: 1912
Description: Otto G. Ansorge sits in his home on Lake Avenue and reads. Ansorge was a jeweler and band director in Winneconne.
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Brodhead Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Brodhead Public Library. The back of the cardboard mounting reads: "Free Public Library, Brodhead, Wis." There is a stove in the cente...
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Virginia Ross in Kitchen

Date: 1950
Description: Virginia Ross poses at a table in front of a large stove in the kitchen. Caption reads: "Kitchen at Ross's Tel Lake Lodge, Hayward, Wis."
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Whitehall Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Whitehall Public Library. In the foreground a reading tables and chairs, and a small children's reading table. Bookshelves are along t...
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Hillsboro Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Hillsboro Public Library. Reverse of cardboard backing reads: "Hillsboro Public Library in a Jeweler's store. Take Oct 2, 1905." Books...
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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: View from front of room of teacher and students in classroom of one room schoolhouse. There is a large stove on the right, and the teacher stands behind th...
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Come for the Haircut, Stay for the Banjo

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Description: Rube Guyett and George Mandle with banjos in the Guyett Barber Shop.
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Farmhouse

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Description: Interior view of a farmhouse. The living room features a potbelly stove and a rocking chair. The portrait of a man hangs on the wall above a table lined ...
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Headquarters Detachment Quarters, Interior

Date: 1918
Description: The interior sleeping quarters for the headquarters detachment of the 310th U.S. Army Engineer Corps. In the room are sleeping bunks, a woodstove, and clot...
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Dorm at Downer College

Date: 1895
Description: Interior of a student's room at Downer (women's) College. Two banjos rest on the chaise in front of the window.
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Railroad Station Office

Date: 1902
Description: Interior, with four men, of a small office, very likely a railroad station office.
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Phillip and Isabel La Follette

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Description: Phillip and Isabel Bacon La Follette sitting in comfortable chairs in their living room at home. A large dog, perhaps a Chow, is lying on the rug in front ...
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Accordion Player

Date: 1964
Description: The granddaughter of Nellie Arms playing the accordion, probably in Nellie's home.
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Drug Store Interior

Date: 1915
Description: Interior view of the drugstore owned by Jerome Francis Franklin Jr., located next to the Franklin Hardware Company/Eland Post Office. In the foreground are...
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Men in Cookhouse

Date: 1892
Description: A group of six men in the dining hall of a lumber camp. The men are in a room with long tables filled with table settings.

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