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| Description: | View down a metal bridge over the Kickapoo River showing a truck parked on the far side of the bridge. A man and a boy are standing at the rail of the brid... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the public school. A large brick building with a bell tower on the roof, arched entrances, and a wooden fence along the side. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View of an empty baseball park with a bluff in the background. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Long view of bluffs with a fence and a farm in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a stone hop house built by Jesse Carpenter in 1894. It was sold to James Stuart "when the crash came." |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Schoolhouse of District #5 in Pleasant Ridge built on land donated by Isaac Shepard. Both blacks and whites built, attended, and taught at the school. Peop... |
| Date: | 10 25 1912 |
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| Description: | Five young women walking across a field. The hand-lettered caption reads: "The hiker's stride." |
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| Description: | A scrapbook page containing five photographs of John R. Commons and farm labor. The handwriting in the center reads: "Dale Farm with AL and Windy." Caption... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting construction of the first Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1816. In the painting, several o... |
| Date: | 08 24 1964 |
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| Description: | Shore scene at end of Main Road showing studio and small boats at low water. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of the funeral procession of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, with Taliesin seen in the center background. Following the farm wagon hearse are ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Trempealeau County, south of Arcadia. |
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| Description: | Men posing with dump wagons in front of a bridge with horse-drawn wagons lined up on a dirt ridge. A sign near them reads "This work being done by Birt & D... |
| Date: | 09 21 1922 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the J.J. Emmerich Cranberry Company showing the bog in the background with the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Indian cranberry pickers' camp at the ... |
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| Description: | Cutover Norway Pine lands showing character of restocking and scattered trees. |
| Date: | 06 12 1932 |
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| Description: | Car accident on County Trunk K that killed four members of the Price family. The scene was photographed for the Dane County coroner Campbell. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Young boy in a wagon pulled by two dogs near a cornfield. |
| Date: | 05 1928 |
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| Description: | A young boy holding a lunch box has his hand on his head while standing on the grounds of Viall School. |
| Date: | 05 1928 |
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| Description: | Boy idling away time with a rifle under a tree on the grounds of a rural school. |
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