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Children of Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr.

Date: 1904
Description: Group portrait on porch of the three children of Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr. (1859-1936), and his wife, Harriet Bradley Hammond (1862-1921). Pictured, left t...
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Hunters with Fox

Date: 11 07 1931
Description: Three men (including Hilgers) proudly display their trophy fox. An automobile is behind them, and a house is in the background.
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Henry Vilas Zoo Award Presented to Boy

Date: 10 05 1931
Description: Two men are presenting a radio to a boy, Phillip Harris, as an award for naming the Vilas Zoo lion cubs. The names were "Thor" and "Yama." Left to right in...
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View of Men Posing at Entrance to 508 State Street

Date: 1883
Description: View from street of John Hess and Froderick Schmitz and a horse on the sidewalk in front of the entrance to 508 State Street, the Hess and Schmitz Livery B...
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Wedding at Norway Grove Lutheran Church - Anaglyph

Date: 1873
Description: Wedding party at the Norway Grove Lutheran Church. Horses and carriages can be seen in the background.
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Rainey Family and Vance Family Picnic

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Description: Five children, three women, and a man are posing sitting, and four women and a man are standing, around a picnic in a yard in front of wooden buildings. Pr...
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Fitzgerald's Resort

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Description: A man, a nun sit on a bench with an owl perched on the back of the bench between them. Three women stand behind them on the lawn of a resort.
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Outdoor Family Portrait

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Description: An outdoor family portrait with a golf theme. Several members are sitting on a bench and the lawn, with a large house in the background. There are two dogs...
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Henry Elston Family

Date: 1937
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Henry Elston Family of Muscoda, with a dog sitting in the foreground. According to US censuses they are from left to right: M...
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Silver Wedding of Sherwin and Emma Gillett

Date: 1931
Description: Group portrait on the lawn in front of a porch at the 25th Wedding Anniversary of Sherwin and Emma Gillett. Sherwin and Emma are standing on the left. Thei...
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John Lloyd Jones Family

Date: 1910
Description: Members of the Lloyd Jones family informally gathered on the lawn outside their house. Names (l to r) Mrs. (Hannah) John Lloyd Jones, Richard Lloyd Jones, ...
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Railroad Employees Posed on Donkeys

Date: 1906
Description: Employees of the Milwaukee Road at Happy Hollow. Left to right: engineers Fred Brown, John J. Rigney, William Wall, William H. Fetherston, and conductors J...
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WIAA State Girls Basketball Champions with Governor

Date: 03 1978
Description: Winners of the WIAA Girls Basketball State Championship, the Lomira High School Girls Basketball team meet Wisconsin Governor, Martin Schreiber.
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Four Men at the American Honey Producers League Convention

Date: 01 1928
Description: Group portrait of four men: C.L. Corkins, H.F. Wilson, C.W. Hartman, and Frank Rauchfuss standing in front of a display of honey in jars, and boxes of hone...
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Professor Rasmus B. Anderson at Home

Date: 1902
Description: Professor Rasmus B. Anderson, noted authority on Scandinavian affairs, with Karema Anderson and his son Rolf, with dog “Ned”, in their home.
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Three Men Tasting Honey

Date: 10 1969
Description: Three men standing in front of a window curtain sampling honey.
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Men Posing in the New Street

Date: 1889
Description: Elevated view of group gathered and posed on a new street. Behind the group is a large pile of lumber, wooden sidewalks, and what appear to be newly-constr...
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Winnebago Men and Women

Date: 1910
Description: Posed studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Winnebago Indian men and one young woman. Each of the men is holding a mounted bird of some s...
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The Day's Catch

Date: 1904
Description: Group portrait of men and boys standing in front of two houses all holding a long stringer of fish. Three women are standing in the yard in the background....
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Record Breaking Catch

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Description: Group portrait of five local youth showing off a record breaking catch of thirty large Carp hanging on a stringer. Town elders, all men, pose in the backgr...

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