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| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | View of Fountain Lake (officially known as Ennis Lake), John Muir's boyhood home near Montello. The area is now a 125-acre State Natural Area. Fountain Lak... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | View of Fountain Lake (officially known as Ennis Lake), John Muir's boyhood home near Montello. The area is now a 125-acre State Natural Area. Fountain Lak... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | View of Fountain Lake (officially known as Ennis Lake), John Muir's boyhood home near Montello. The area is now a 125-acre State Natural Area. Fountain Lak... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Interstate highways I-94 and I-43 running concurrently in Kenosha County. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | One of the larger buildings of "Little Norway." |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Buildings at "Little Norway." From left to right: main lodge (formerly Haugen barn), summer kitchen, tool house, and guest house. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the kitchen at "Little Norway." Log building with a turf roof. Caption reads: "The Kitchen - Little Norway - Mt. Horeb, Wis." |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Little Norway buildings near a hill. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Buildings at "Little Norway." From left to right: tool house, Norway house, Haugen homestead. The wagon in foreground is a kubberulle; the wheels are sec... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Man and woman using a double-handled saw to clear trees from their land. |
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| Description: | Advertisement in Norwegian for land in Grand Falls, Ward County, Texas. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Black Hawk Tree, Prairie du Chien, Wis." The tree is in the center of an unpaved road. It was rumored that Chief Black Hawk hid within this... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Colsac Ferry across the Wisconsin River at Merrimac. There is a bridge across the river in the background on the left. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Customers standing outside the small bar are probably waiting to take the ferry across the river. |
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| Description: | Governor Emanuel Philipp with his arm around a cow. He is standing in a field with several other cows. |
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