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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of a family posed on a hill in front of a farm, with farmhouse, outbuildings, and a windmill. The family is gathered on a hill i... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the aftermath of a train wreck. Survivors and onlookers are gathered on and around the railroad tracks. Caption reads: "Wreck... |
| Date: | 01 04 1960 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Wilbur Schoephorster shows her oil painting, "Hunter's Cabin," which was awarded one of 38 top state honors in last year's Rural Arts and Crafts Show.... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | View along the Catfish River, with shrubs and grasses covering the riverbank. On the far left are electrical poles along a dirt road bordering a field that... |
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| Description: | The parson came. He said it well: Enough is all we want, to hold and sleep on, not the sky. A little harvest of the sorrows between the sentenc... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | This Blue line print map shows trade area boundaries, lakes, farm homes, railways, high schools, public highways, and townships. A symbol key is included i... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Cow grazing in a pasture. Taken from The Writer's Program to be used as an illustration for "Wisconsin: a Guide to the Badger State." |
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| Description: | The Stanley Hanks cottage at Fox Bluff on the shore of Lake Mendota. There is a fence around the property, and a boat is pulled up on the shoreline. |
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| Description: | View up sloping lawn towards the Stanley Hanks cottage at Fox Bluff with a fence in the background. The cottage has a screen porch along one side and a rou... |
| Date: | 10 18 1978 |
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| Description: | View down Old Sauk Pass towards a house in a valley during a rainstorm in rural Wisconsin. |
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| Description: | View of Johnson duck shack at old Cherokee Marsh amidst trees and shrubs. The site was where plans for the Ducks Unlimited southern Wisconsin chapter were ... |
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| Description: | Farm workers spreading hay onto two haystacks on farm on the east side of Highway 51 north of Pflaum Road. Three teams of horses, wearing fly-nets, are pro... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | The Schuepbach Farm off East Clayton Road, with a view of the Wisconsin State Capitol in the far distance. |
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| Description: | View of Lake Waubesa from a hill. A farm is in the distance on the left. The Yahara River is in the foreground. Handwritten caption reads: "Lake Waubesa." |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Illustrated postcard view of the exterior of Bancroft Dairy, and an inset at top left of Charmany Farms. Near the entrance of the dairy are chairs set arou... |
| Date: | 06 15 1957 |
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| Description: | A packed crowd of children are watching from behind a white fence towards an arena of horseback riders. A large speaker is on a pole for announcements. ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Black Earth Creek in the winter, with the banks covered with snow. Large trees are leaning over the creek on the right bank. In the background are a fence,... |
| Date: | 11 1956 |
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| Description: | A former homestead in the autumn, framed by leafless trees. The cabin is constructed of squared logs with interlocking double-notch joints, chinked with a ... |
| Date: | 01 1963 |
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| Description: | Dried grass is caught in a barb wire fence that is leaning over near a small creek. Snow is on the ground. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Silhouette of a horse against a snow covered hill, on CTH PB three miles south of the Dane County Home. There is a fence around the enclosure and trees on ... |
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