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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: | 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: | 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Gophering, or prospecting for lead using a windlass at Maplewood Farm. |
| Date: | 01 19 1945 |
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| Description: | Stone bridge on Edgewood Drive, formerly an underpass for cows to access the lake. There are buildings further up the hill in the background. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Oscar Mayer & Company, 910 Mayer Avenue at Packers Avenue. Shows stock yards, railroad cars and automobile parking lot. Also shows C.E. & P.... |
| Date: | 07 06 1940 |
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| Description: | Allis Chalmers tractor pulling a chopper and a wagon, with one man driving the tractor, two men on the wagon, and one man talking to the driver. |
| Date: | 09 13 1949 |
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| Description: | A man and woman driving their horse-drawn cart into the woods to collect buckets that are hanging from maple trees. The buckets catch sap that is used to m... |
| Date: | 07 1941 |
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| Description: | Two buildings, perhaps outhouses, and farm equipment in the vicinity of Crandon. |
| Date: | 07 1941 |
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| Description: | A man is driving an automobile in a field near two buildings, perhaps outhouses. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the "powder storage area" of the Badger Ordnance Plant. |
| 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: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Church, several houses and field from a hill. |
| 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: | 10 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Buckeye Road accident scene, looking north near Homburg farm, 3976 County Trunk Highway AB. |
| 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: | View of the Midway Barns, constructed in 1938 on the farmland adjoining Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's residence and architectural school complex. Taliesin... |
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