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Stand Rock

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Description: Stand Rock from the east.
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Droster Farm

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior of the Droster farm located on Felland Road. The house was built in 1854.
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Skillet Creek Fruit Farm

Date: 1927
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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Scenic View

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Description: View from a bridge looking down a river.
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Post Office and Johnson's Store

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Description: View of the post office and Johnson's Store, located in a rural setting. A man carries goods in a horse-drawn wagon. Published by E. Vosseller Stationer.
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General View of Countryside

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Description: General view of sparsely inhabited country featuring a flat plains area and small lake.
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Old Mill Dam

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Description: View from shoreline of water pouring through the dam opening. There is a mill and a bridge in the background.
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Cottages at Decatur Park

Date: 1924
Description: A log cabin at Decatur Park. The cabin features a screened porch as well as a front porch.
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Bird's-Eye View

Date: 1925
Description: View of a church, field, and cemetery from a hilltop. A car drives down the road in the lower-right corner.
Postcard

Oak Park

Date: 08 1909
Description: View of trees and dirt road in Oak Park. Caption reads: "Oak Park, Army Lake, Wis."
Postcard

Off Madeline Island

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Description: View across water towards two schooners off the shore of Madeline Island, one of the islands that comprise the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior. Two large ...
Photograph

Old Windmill on Hill

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Description: View of Chatham Windmill, built in 1796 by Colonel Benjamin Godfrey. The windmill is 30 feet tall with an octagonal base and was used for grinding corn an...
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Entrance to Congress Hall

Date: 1925
Description: A man and woman pose at the wooden walkway among the rock formations of Congress Hall, on the Dell View Resort property.
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Down The Narrows — From Opposite Cold Water Canyon #237

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Description: A boy, probably Ashley Bennett, leaning against a tree stump near the entrance to the Old River Bed. Text at right: "Wanderings Among the Wonders and Beaut...
Photograph

McSherry Cave

Date: 07 1929
Description: View uphill towards the entrance to the McSherry Cave. A woman is standing at the entrance. Trees and shrubs are growing on top of the cave.
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Farm Home of Thomas Convey

Date: 1907
Description: Farm home of Thomas Convey family, at or near Ridgeway. In the foreground, two men stand near a horse-drawn wagon. Five women are standing on a stone wall ...
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The Goetsch Sisters

Date: 1893
Description: The Goetsch sisters sit and stand in two rows on the family farm. They are wearing dark dresses. Names: (back row) Martha G. Buelke, unidentified, Lydia; (...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 132

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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...
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The Amateur

Date: 09 12 1905
Description: Laurie Peterson pretending to take a photograph, with a prop camera, of Muriel Peterson as she is gazing at a cat. In the background are trees and shrubs. ...
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Laurie and Muriel Peterson with Boat

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Description: Laurie and Muriel Peterson posing with a wooden rowboat that has been tipped on its side. Laurie is standing behind the boat, leaning on one arm. Muriel is...

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