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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Rural scene of farmstead with a river or stream (?) in the background. The farm is bounded by a barbed wire fence, and there is a utility pole on the bank ... |
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| Description: | The first building built for the Hillside Home School, 4 Miles from Spring Green. Exterior view of the Hillside Home Building, a Shingle Style building, de... |
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| Description: | View of house and farm buildings in Ableman with a rocky hill in the background. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a two-story house with a front porch and an enclosed porch on the side. In the background is a barn or outbuilding. |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of the railroad yards. Elevated view of railroad tracks and switch-yard, with steam rising behind a brick building on the left. Railr... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View across field of four dwellings and a two-car garage located amongst very large pine trees. There are newly planted deciduous trees and hedges. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View across driveway of one-and-a-half story house with a stone chimney situated under large pine trees and new plantings. Cable Lake is in the background. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the town and surrounding area. The brick building at the photograph's bottom center is labeled "Geren, Rish Art Studio" and was built in ... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | The exterior of the white public school building. Trees and bushes partially obstruct the view. |
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| Description: | A horse-drawn wagon travels down North Maple Avenue, a tree-shaded country road. A residential area can be seen in the background. Published by E.W. Cobb... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "The old log cabin of a generation ago--seldom seen today." Two children are sitting inside the screen door of the cabin. |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | An African-American church building located near the African American school, as photographed by a civil rights volunteer. "Photographed on our trip to r... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over rooftops. Farm fields and houses are in the background. |
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| Description: | Wooden church with a bell tower and a stable in the back on the right. Fences and fields are in the background. |
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| Description: | View along railroad tracks towards a group of men and boys standing on a platform in front of the Preston Depot while a locomotive arrives. In the backgrou... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View across road of a white wooden church with a belfry, and a weather vane on top of the steeple. There is decorative running trim on the eaves. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view of the front and side of the M.E. Church, which is a wood frame building. Above the entrance is a bell tower with a weather vane. Near t... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A one-story wood frame school with a lightning rod or flagpole on the bell tower. A hand water pump is near the front entrance, and a tire swing is wrapped... |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view of front and side of the German Lutheran Church, a brick building with steps to the entrance. There are narrow arched windows, a belfy w... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View from railroad tracks towards the back of the canning company. There are freight cars parked near the loading dock. Two smokestacks are behind the buil... |
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