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Chief Ma-ko-day and Family

Date: 07 1916
Description: St. Croix Ojibwa Chief Ma-Ko-day (Chief Peter Bearheart) and his wife, grandson, and another unidentified person in front of their birch wigwam located in ...
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Valley Estates Subdivision

Date: 03 1998
Description: "Village officials help kick off Valley Estates Subdivision."
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Valley Estates Subdivision

Date: 03 1998
Description: "Progress on Valley Estates Subdivision."
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Saving Energy with Insulation

Date: 1979
Description: During an energy tour of his district Congressman Obey visited various sites to observe projects to increase energy efficiency. Here a workman is preparing...
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Water Station

Date: 1918
Description: View across snow towards a group of Russian men, women, children, and American soldiers at a water station. Behind the sled on the left is a dog, and horse...
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Children Playing on Fallen Tree

Date: 
Description: View across open field towards children standing on a downed tree near the racetrack. There are buildings, a fence and a pavilion behind the tree.
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Children and Trough

Date: 1933
Description: Three boys and a girl stand behind a wood trough, hewn from a log. The boys wear bib overalls. There is a two-story house and an outbuilding in the backgro...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 85-90

Date: 
Description: 200 years this tree grew here and so did I
We were raised here and brought up young ones
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 514-521

Date: 
Description: Put aside anything so futile

All that fermented time
spent and blackened, much obscured,
is now restored with cheese and wine
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 633-639

Date: 
Description: Rooms remembered for what they led to
What they shut out and how they silent sang
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 640-647

Date: 
Description: You who were spared I talked with night but last
about the velvet years
I remember from the window
The one that is blown is the one gone wild
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Boy Posed Standing Outdoors

Date: 1918
Description: Unidentified boy posed standing in the yard in front of a frame house, probably in Hartford.
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Street View of Bryant

Date: 1909
Description: Street view showing houses, side yards and residents.
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Blooming Grove Fire Department Installs Alert Signs

Date: 09 29 1959
Description: Blooming Grove Fire Department Lt. John Robertstad installs an alert sign beneath the bedroom window of Lynn Stenrud to aid in rescue operations in the eve...
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Broom and Wash-Basin

Date: 1920
Description: Unidentified man standing in (a farmyard?) with a broom and wash-basin.
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Family on Front Porch

Date: 1920
Description: Family on the front porch of a small house, relaxing, reading, with dog. The photograph was probably made as an illustration for the University of Wisconsi...
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Holcombe Parsonage

Date: 1920
Description: Rear view of the first parsonage occupied by the Reverend Mr. Row.
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State Street

Date: 1918
Description: Street view of the north side of State Street, west of 6th Street. The second frame house from the right was once occupied as an office by Victor L. Berger...
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Streetcar Home

Date: 12 12 1937
Description: Old streetcar stabilized, adapted and furnished as living quarters, and its occupant.
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Trade Show Home

Date: 04 03 1957
Description: Elevated view of demonstration “ranch” type frame residence under construction within an auditorium, presumably in Milwaukee, for some type of trade show. ...

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