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Engine Powered Hay Press on Farm

Date: 1905
Description: Men operating a hay press powered by an International Harvester stationary engine as a woman is looking on. They are working near a barn which has chink-lo...
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Soldiers' Orphans' Home/Monona Academy

Date: 1877
Description: This building, on an entire block of Spaight and Brearly Streets with Lake Monona, was originally the governor's mansion for Leonard J. Farwell. The Farwel...
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N. Lunde Farm

Date: 1874
Description: View framed by trees of a barnyard at the N. Lunde farm. Cattle and three men are standing in an enclosed yard in front of a barn with a cupola. One of the...
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Family and Child on Fence

Date: 1870
Description: Family by wood fence with one child sitting on top of gate; wood house with upper window shutter closed and shutter trim around doorway; trellis by porch. ...
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Extended Family of Aslak Olsen Lie

Date: 08 29 1876
Description: The extended family of Aslak Olsen Lie posing before the home he built in 1849 with his brother Ole after immigrating in 1848. The house is a combination o...
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International Model S 1926 Fire Truck

Date: 07 20 1926
Description: Two men are using a fire hose to spray the corner of a brick building with a bell tower. Another man is sitting in an International Model S 1926 truck oper...
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Horse-Drawn Fire Wagon

Date: 1890
Description: Horse-drawn fire wagon in front of several brick buildings, including the Capitol Publishing building, near the water tower. The man driving the wagon may...
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Octagonal House

Date: 1877
Description: This building, on an entire block of Spaight and Brearly Streets with Lake Monona, was originally the governor's mansion for Leonard J. Farwell. The Farwel...
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Eagles Club Breaks Ground for New Hall

Date: 06 22 1953
Description: Former Governor Oscar Rennebohm turns the first shovelful of earth for the new Eagles Hall to be built on the site of the old Marquette School at 1232 Jeni...
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Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Christmas Joy

Date: 1939
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a man and three boys positioning a ladder to hang holiday decorations on the exterior of the settle...
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U.S. Army Engineer Corps Topographer

Date: 1918
Description: Outdoor view of a U.S. Army Engineer topographer wearing skis while using a tripod stand to write. The engineer is standing next to a barbed wire obstacle ...
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Steeplejack at Work

Date: 05 1984
Description: A steeplejack works on St. Peters Lutheran Church.
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Group at Skunk Hill

Date: 1920
Description: Small group of men and boys gathered outside a traditional elm-bark structure at the upper part of the Skunk Hill community. A young boy stands on the supp...
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Eau Claire Public Library Construction

Date: 1903
Description: View of a group of construction workers standing on the side of the building on a stack of lumber. They are using a large wooden structure supporting a pul...
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Eau Claire Public Library Construction

Date: 1903
Description: Two workers on one of the upper floors of the Eau Claire Public Library during its construction. The frames of the arched windows are in the background. Th...
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Eau Claire Public Library Construction

Date: 1903
Description: View of a worker under a roofed, open-sided wood structure chiseling details in the capitals of what will be the top of the columns of the Eau Claire Publi...
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F.W. Woolworth Company Interior, Julius J. Wergin Painting & Decorating

Date: 1950
Description: Elevated view of two sales women of the F.W. Woolworth Co. standing at a counter, while five men, from Julius J. Wergin Co. painters and decorators, are st...
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Ceska Slovanska Lipa Opera House Interior, Julius J. Wergin, Painting & Decorating

Date: 1949
Description: View of the Julius J. Wergin Company's decorating crew painting the ceiling while standing on scaffolding high above the New Opera House floor. Paint cans,...
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New House

Date: 1905
Description: Three men, identified on the negative envelope as "Mr. Miller, Boots, and Lavine," are posing on the roof of a large two-story cement block house under con...
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Creamery

Date: 02 18 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "Creamery, Story, Wis." Two men pose in front of a two-story, clapboard creamery with a lean-to. The building has a cupola and a stair...

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