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| Date: | 08 07 1924 |
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| Description: | View across yard of a storm-damaged farmhouse. In the foreground is an overturned automobile. The windows of the house have been blown out and the roof has... |
| Date: | 08 16 1925 |
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| Description: | A chorus of men singing on stage with a crowd watching. A group of officials seated on the right. Rolling farmland in the background. |
| Date: | 08 16 1925 |
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| Description: | View of field full of parked automobiles at the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Swiss Colony at New Glarus. A log structure in... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Unidentified man standing in (a farmyard?) with a broom and wash-basin. |
| Date: | 01 31 1926 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of early snowmobile race at Rangeline Lake. Bill Neu (right), winner, Harold Hansen (left). Special conversion kits were available which allow... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A winter scene showing two men standing behind the blade, on either side of the cab, of a Caterpillar Wausau-Plow Snow V-Plow. They are removing snow from ... |
| 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: | 06 25 1925 |
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| Description: | View across street towards men posing in front of an International Harvester dealership. Agricultural implements are set up on the steps, and there is a si... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Raymond (Ray) Griesemer is sitting on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle. He is wearing leather gloves, a jacket with sheepskin lining, dark pants, lace-up boo... |
| Date: | 07 25 1922 |
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| Description: | View across fence towards a field with bales of barley arranged in rows. A person is operating horse-drawn farm machinery in the field on the right. Farm b... |
| Date: | 04 1924 |
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| Description: | A view of downtown Livingston looking down the main street. |
| Date: | 08 14 1922 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Capture of the Hodag, Rhinelander, Wis." A large group of men armed with guns, pitchforks and rakes hold a beast at bay on top of a l... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Steamboat Rock, Richland Center, Wis." A large formation, crowned with trees, juts over a dirt road. An automobile is on the road on ... |
| Date: | 08 14 1929 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Lovers Lane, Sauk City, Wis." An unpaved, rural road with a wooden guard rail on both sides. A sign reads: "Automobiles Go Slow." Beh... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A man is walking across a narrow suspension bridge over a spillway or dam. A typewritten note on the reverse reads: "Honey Creek, West of Sauk City, Many S... |
| Date: | 09 14 1922 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "On the Wisconsin." Wooded islands on the Wisconsin River as seen from the shore. The opposite shoreline is in the background. The pow... |
| Date: | 08 22 1920 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Plum Creek, near Jack Pine Lodge, Sayner, Wis." View of a creek with brush covered shores, and trees in the distance. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "P.L. Wegner Summer Home. S.T.H. 71. Sparta, Wisc." The Paul & Matilda Wegner Grotto aka The Glass Chapel, a concrete structure with a... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Trout Falls, Near Sparta, Wis." Elevated view of river. On the left bank at the base of the falls is an open-sided stilt structure wi... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Ann Mitchell Library-Tower Hill, Wis." A one-story, wooden building with a wrap-around veranda and broad front steps surrounded by tr... |
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