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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright and Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, motoring in the country in a Crosley car. Another car is behind them. |
| 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: | 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: | 01 11 1948 |
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| Description: | The remains of the boiler tank of the Milwaukee Road railroad engine of the Portage to Madison passenger train, which exploded and derailed south of Arling... |
| Date: | 05 24 1948 |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of Ferdinand Heim, long-time resident of rural Middleton. |
| Date: | 08 02 1948 |
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| Description: | Scene in the cemetery near Martinsville during the internment of Lucille Ballweg, victim of a tornado. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Man smoothing a road with a Meili-Blumberg (MB) Model 10 power grader attached to an International MD tractor. According to the original caption, the power... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Man spreads gravel along a road with a Meili-Blumberg (MB) Model 10 power grader attached to an International M tractor. One side of the road is lined with... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Man grading a dirt road with a Meili-Blumberg Model 10 power grader attached to an International M tractor. Original caption states: "To maintain its 67 m... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | An International KB-8-F dump truck owned by the Empire-Star Mines Company, Limited, parked in front of several buildings with its bed raised to ore(?). A m... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Hough Payloader with post-hole digger powered by a non-International engine. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Bee hives near the Bennett cranberry marshes. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Cranberry fields with irrigation ditches. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Two men inspecting cranberry plants, most likely for pests or disease. |
| Date: | 04 04 1948 |
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| Description: | "Maple syrup was made on the Leo Moldenhaurer farm located on Allen Road in the town of Theresa." |
| Date: | 10 1948 |
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| Description: | An automobile drives down a tree-lined dirt road which would later be rerouted. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Drawing depicting a horse-drawn carriage crossing a stone and log causeway built across a river. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Drawing of a Madison to Prairie du Chien stage coach in 1848. The coach is driven by two men and drawn by four horses as it passes a farm field separated f... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ... |
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