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| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Page showing the month of April from the Hillside Home School calendar. Included are two small cyanotype photographs, one of a house and the other of a fie... |
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| Description: | Large, snow-covered pine tree on Hillside Home School grounds. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Fort Winnebago monument two miles east of Portage on Highway 33, erected by the Wau-bun Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1924. The mo... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Ruins of the commissary warehouse at Fort Winnebago, about 1898. Fort Winnebago was closed in 1845 and the land and buildings sold. Today, only the Surgeon... |
| Date: | 09 11 1927 |
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| Description: | A view of the Norwegian Lutheran Church and cemetery, built in 1852. The building was originally built with logs and was later faced with boards. |
| Date: | 09 11 1927 |
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| Description: | A view of the Norwegian Lutheran Cemetery on the site of the Norwegian Lutheran Church, founded in 1852. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill towards farm fields and houses. Tree-covered hills are in the distance. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill towards farm fields and houses in Oil City. Tree-covered hills are in the distance. |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Cover of a 31-page pamphlet promoting Wisconsin to German immigrants, which translates to read "Wisconsin. An Account of the Population, soil, climate, Com... |
| Date: | 1837 |
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| Description: | Photographic print of an amateur painting, probably representing the "first house in Madison, Wisconsin." The Peck Cabin, one of the many free variations o... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota campaigning for the presidential nomination in southwestern Wisconsin. Humphrey stands at the historical marker in Co... |
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| Description: | Graves of Michel Brisbois and (?) Tilmont on a bluff overlooking Prairie du Chien. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Jackson Family ranch in Nesson on Native American trading route. |
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| Description: | View across lawn or field of numerous buildings on Chester Thordarson's estate. There are greenhouses on the left. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Log cabin known as the "haunted house" on Rock Island, remodeled by Chester Thordarson. There are three people sitting on the porch. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Two men standing in front of two cars, one pointing a handgun at the ground and the other looking at the camera. Each man is holding a bottle, possibly ful... |
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| Description: | Several women smiling and stepping over a barbed wire fence. |
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