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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Girls playing basketball outdoors at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View of an empty baseball park with a bluff in the background. |
| 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." |
| 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. |
| Date: | 05 1928 |
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| Description: | Two young girls playing on a tree swing on the grounds of Viall School. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Muriel and Laurie Peterson, the photographer's children, reflecting on the snow conditions near their home. Laurie holds the rope of a sl... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | School friends Ethel and Eleanor fence-sit on a summer day. |
| Date: | 08 29 1926 |
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| Description: | Drainage Districts of Central Wisconsin booth at Wisconsin State Fair with crops on display, and photographs around the booth above vegetables on display o... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A group of men stand with rifles at the Echo Lake Hunting Club Camp. Gutted deer hang to cure outside the cabin. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A woman stands with her bicycle on a country road. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Lake Delview Hotel, the golf course, and the surrounding countryside. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A child is standing on a log lying on the ground in a clearing. There is a barrel on the left, and a campfire in the background. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Man in "sugar bush" (grove of maples) boiling down maple sap in production of maple syrup. Probably Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Kern family with other picnickers in a horse-drawn wagon. |
| Date: | 11 05 1911 |
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| Description: | A diver and team working to inspect the coffer dam for underwater damage caused by flooding. |
| Date: | 04 12 1912 |
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| Description: | A diver posing with other workmen at the power dam construction site prior to assessing underwater damage. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Two young boys swim in a mill pond beside a dilapidated building. |
| Date: | 05 1902 |
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| Description: | Small group of people, including Alex Krueger, Mrs. E.S. Goetsch, Barnie Goetsch, and Dorothy Goetsch at a fishing hole in Shelby Co. |
| Date: | 10 02 1912 |
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| Description: | Race car #26, possibly driven by Spencer Wishart, driving down a country road during the Vanderbilt Cup Race. Two houses are on the right behind fences and... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Family playing croquet in the front yard of a rural home. |
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