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McCormick-Deering Calendar

Date: 1920
Description: Promotional circular showing the color illustration for a forthcoming farm implement line calendar. Illustration is an artistic rendering of a young woman ...
Photograph

Flute Ceremony

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Description: Ho-Chunk flute ceremony or prayer for rain. Four Ho-Chunk kneel in a square. A flute player and a man with a rattle stand behind on a low, round stone wall...
Photograph

U.S. Navy Ships Company

Date: 03 17 1945
Description: Elevated group portrait of United States Navy, Ships Company.
Photograph

View of Lake Mendota

Date: 05 24 1934
Description: View of Lake Mendota from the terrace of Dr. Frederick A. and Edith Davis house, 6048 South Highlands Avenue, called Edenfred.
Photograph

International Bus

Date: 01 02 1928
Description: An empty International bus parked on a cobblestone street. The name "W.R. Hearst" is on the side of the truck.
Photograph

Tollef Gjermundsen Farmstead

Date: 1874
Description: View down hill towards two men in the foreground standing on top of a stone fence looking out onto fields where two or three men are working with two wagon...
Photograph

Girls on a Stone Wall

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Description: Two bonnetted farm girls sit on a stone wall, apparently cracking nuts.
Postcard

Lawe Street Hill

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Description: Scenic view of two women standing along a railing on a sidewalk above a stone wall viewing the way to the river. Caption reads: "Lawe Street Hill to Fox Ri...
Photograph

Winterble Property

Date: 06 16 1949
Description: Road and stone retaining wall in front of Freda Winterble property, 901 University Bay Drive, looking toward the Timlin Lumber Company, 2702 University Ave...
Photograph

Taliesin I Courtyard Looking Southwest

Date: 1912
Description: Taliesin I courtyard looking southeast toward living room wing from the hayloft.
Photograph

Stewart Residence, Wausau, Wisconsin

Date: 1900
Description: View of the Stewart residence from the road. There is a stone wall along the sidewalk and a gate in front of the walkway to the front steps.
Postcard

Little Chute Dam

Date: 1910
Description: View across water looking towards the dam. There is a stone wall to the right of the dam, and a building above it. Caption reads: "Section of Little Chute ...
Photograph

Pendarvis House

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Description: The Pendarvis house, a Cornish home on Shake Rag Street.
Photograph

Polperro House

Date: 1945
Description: A restored Cornish miner's house, called Polperro, on Shake Rag Street. The house was temporarily covered with siding, but after restoration the siding was...
Photograph

Tower Hill Bluff

Date: 1950
Description: A view from a bluff on Tower HIll overlooking the Wisconsin River. A sign on the right reads: "Shot Shaft".
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1930
Description: View up Main Street, with houses up on a hill on the left above a stone wall that runs along the sidewalk. On the right is a sign that reads: "Maiden R[ock...
Photograph

Entrance Gate at Taliesin

Date: 1914
Description: Entrance gate at Taliesin, and the landscape around the gate. Taliesin was the summer residence of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Taliesin is located in the...
Photograph

Taliesin

Date: 1915
Description: View of several people posing near the pond and spillway on the grounds of Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's residence and architectural school complex. Talie...
Print

Salisbury House

Date: 1905
Description: Exterior view of the Salisbury house, with a horse-drawn wagon located to the left side of the home and William Salisbury, John Salisbury, Mrs. William Sal...
Photograph

Purdy House

Date: 1959
Description: View from street of the Purdy house, Portage, Wisconsin. A stone wall runs along the sidewalk, topped with an iron fence.

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