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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | The Coumbe homestead, home of John Coumbe, the first white settler in Richland County, who came to the site in 1838. The original buildings were log struct... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Fort Winnebago surgeon's quarters before restoration. Plans used in the remodeling of 1834 (furnished by the War department) were employed to determine the... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A log cabin in Heg Memorial Park, built in 1837. |
| Date: | 1837 |
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| Description: | Photographic print of an amateur painting, probably representing the "first house in Madison, Wisconsin." The Peck Cabin, one of the many free variations o... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Getto family, seated left to right: Henry Getto, Harry Ketola, Maria Getto, Senia Getto Aho, Alma Getto, Ruth Howland, Pete Hovi, Oscar Getto, Herman Aho, ... |
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| Description: | The family of Samuel Arms poses outdoors in front of their house (the front door faces east). From left to right are: Samuel Arms, Mamie, Mary Roberts Arms... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Log cabin known as the "haunted house" on Rock Island, remodeled by Chester Thordarson. There are three people sitting on the porch. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Madeline Island logging camp near Big Bay. Men preparing logs for a building, with three log buildings in background. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Logging Camp dock and buildings made of logs. Madeline Island shoreline on the bank of Lake Superior. |
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| Description: | Interior of cook shanty, with oil lamps hanging from the ceiling beams. The back wall is covered with newspapers. Three men stand behind wood benches and t... |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of Henry Getto standing in the yard, and Maria Getto standing in the doorway of their log home. There is a ladder on the roof. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View toward the front entrance of the cabin with a stone chimney on the right. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A replica of the cabin built by Jacques Vieau, now in Mitchell Park. A stone monument with a plaque sits in front of the cabin. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Historic marker placed on the site of the first cabin built in Milwaukee, 1795. A replica cabin is behind. The plaque says: On this site the first permane... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the house at 1422 Sherman Avenue, built by Willard Droster, in the Sherman Park neighborhood. Children are playing on the left. |
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| Description: | Two men in a lumber camp bunkhouse. The man on the right is sitting on a stump playing a fiddle, while the man on the left is dancing. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Log cabin on trailer pulled by two horses used in the presidential campaign in Wisconsin to promote the candidacy of Benjamin Harrison. |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | The Little Bohemia Lodge where John Dillinger and his gang escaped from the FBI after a shootout in 1934. The lodge was visited by members of the crew for ... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Lumber company workers pose in front of buildings at the Moore & Galloway Lumber Company camp, about a quarter of a mile east of Pike Lake. The man in a wh... |
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| Description: | A large group of men, probably logging workers, are shown playing cards in a sleeping shanty. |
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