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| 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: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Trempealeau County, south of Arcadia. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Replica of Eleazer William's original log cabin, with trees and a dirt road, five miles south of De Pere on the west bank of the Fox River. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | View of a rural church on a hill and its adjacent cemetery. Beaver Creek Lutheran Church was or still is a Norwegian church. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Two men and a child in Granton (vicinity), Clark County, Wisconsin. They are gathering maple syrup with a horse-drawn sled. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's residence and architectural school complex. Taliesin is located in the vicinity of Spring Green, Wisconsin. |
| 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: | 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: | 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. |
| Date: | 04 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Church spires can be seen in the distance above a field and wooded landscape. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored photograph of Dunham School, standing in a grove of trees, surrounded by a fence. The building is built of brick and has a bell tower, with a ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Sigurd Olson duck hunting from a canoe. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Sigurd Olson standing in a Border Lakes Outfitting Company canoe. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Snapshot of a Nazi Youth camp found by Sigurd Olson during his travels in Germany, either late in 1945 or early in 1946. |
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