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Belmont Hotel Window Painting

Date: 06 18 1952
Description: William F. Guethlein, Sauk City, resting on a scaffold on the Belmont Hotel, 31 North Pinckney Street. He has been repairing and painting the hotel windows...
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Amusement Park with Rides

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Description: A carousel, aeroplane, penny arcade, and other rides stand inside an amusement park. There is a lawn at the center of the image and people surround the amu...
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People Posing in front of Lake House

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Description: Photographic postcard view of a group of men, children and a dog posing in front of Lake House. Another man with two children are sitting on the porch step...
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City Employees

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Description: A group of about two dozen male city employees, three carrying shovels, stand in front of the double doors of a large brick building. There is a wooden wal...
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New York Electric and Gas Corporation Maintenance Truck

Date: 1937
Description: A man unloads a ladder from the top of an International D-2 truck owned by New York State Electric and Gas Corporation and used for maintenance purposes. T...
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Hotel White

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Description: Exterior view of the Hotel White. Four men and one woman are posed on the porch. On the roof of the hotel is a widow's walk.
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Putnam Residence

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Description: View of Putnam residence and post office, with Mrs. Putnam sitting in a chair on the lawn, and Mr. Putnam (with a pipe in his mouth) standing behind her on...
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Shullsburg Catholic Church

Date: 1925
Description: View across lawn of exterior of the Catholic Church, a stone and brick building with stained glass windows. A man is walking down the tree-lined sidewalk o...
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Carnegie Library in Sparta

Date: 1911
Description: View from street of the Carnegie Library. A boy is standing on the stone steps that lead up to the arched entrance which has two round windows and a datest...
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High School

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Description: View from road of the high school and a smaller building next door. Sidewalks crisscross the lawn among trees in the schoolyard. A woman wearing a hat is j...
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Edgewood Valley Resort

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Description: Three-quarter view of Edgewood Valley Resort, a stone dwelling with guest rooms. A group of people is sitting in the lawn in front of the porch.
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Eliphalet Miner Home

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Description: An Italianate style home, with a small balcony above the front entrance. The windows on the main section of the house are arched and have matching arched s...
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Couple in Wheelchairs

Date: 2013
Description: A married couple, Carrie and Prentice Vaughn, riding together into the distance in their wheelchairs on the sidewalk on 7th Street. On the right is a large...
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Four Teenagers

Date: 2012
Description: Four teens, two girls and two boys, pose together on the sidewalk on 7th Street. They are dressed casually, the girls in shorts and sandals and the boys in...
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Conrad Seipp and Family

Date: 1884
Description: Chicago brewer Conrad Seipp (1825-1890), seated at left, poses with his second wife, Catherine Orb Seipp (1846-1920), seated to his left, with other family...
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Society Hill

Date: 1906
Description: Four large, wood frame houses are seen in this view looking west along Lake Avenue. A small brick house with front bay window is visible through the open p...
Postcard

St. Paul's University Chapel

Date: 1909
Description: Black and white printed postcard of a drawing of St. Paul's University Chapel, 723 State Street. Caption reads: "St. Paul's University Chapel, (in course o...
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Dinosaur Entrant for UW Circus

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Description: Two men are standing on either side of a large costume of a six-legged dinosaur in front of the Armory on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
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Dinosaur Entrant for UW Circus

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Description: Two men are standing on either side of a large costume of a six-legged dinosaur in front of the Armory on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
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Touring Pendarvis House

Date: 08 1940
Description: A group of eight young men, all Georgia Junior Rangers, and two of their guides, are posing in front of Pendarvis House, a Cornish miner's cottage. Five me...

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