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| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across water along the right side of the Sauk City bridge, erected in 1922 to replace an old toll bridge. tree-covered hills are on the opposite shore... |
| Date: | 10 23 1923 |
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| Description: | Men working on the concrete chutes and elevated trestle. Iron reinforcing bars protrude from the forms. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Prairie du Sac hydroelectric plant and the surrounding landscape of the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | The inactive Leland mill, with the faded painted sign, "Leland Roller Mill," on the upper story. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A deteriorating wooden structure with two gables on the front, identified as the Red Tavern between Kilbourn and Mauston, built in 1848. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A Native American (possibly Ho-Chunk) family rests at their campsite under a large tree. There is a bucket suspended over a small campfire. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A shepherd with a crook watches his flock in a wooded area beside a pond. His sheep dog rests beside him. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A flock of sheep graze under old willow trees alongside a stream. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A view of a rolling rural landscape, most likely in Sauk County. In the far distance are houses and farm buildings, a church and a larger building, center ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Two large clay block silos stand beside a river. There is a large building, possibly a mill, behind the silos, a barn to the right and a shed on the left. ... |
| Date: | 06 09 1929 |
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| Description: | The Nofsinger family poses with their automobile, a Model T Ford. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View of a man driving an automobile on a dirt road in Ableman. Rock formations are on both sides of the road, and rocks and trees are in the background. |
| Date: | 04 1925 |
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| Description: | View of the wood trellis fence and columns that frame the entrance gate to the Silver-Dale Resort. A group of people are sitting on the porch of a refreshm... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Filling station with attendant standing outside near two pumps. There is a stand with signs advertising Old Gold cigarettes, 5 cent vegetable sandwiches, P... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a school with a gable roof with bell steeple. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View of a mill dam's pond with open area and hills in the background. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Way of the Cross station leading to St Anne's Shrine. Behind the shrine are birch and other trees and a view down the hill towards a valley. The station is... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View from bluff of Crystal Lake and surrounding rolling hills. There is a dairy farm in the foreground at the bottom of the bluff. Cows are grazing in fiel... |
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