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Ed Gein Farm Auction

Date: 03 30 1958
Description: Notice of farm auction sale for farm and personal property of Ed Gein. The farmhouse was destroyed by fire before the auction took place.
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Greetings from Wautoma

Date: 1970
Description: View of businesses in the Main Street area of Wautoma. Some storefronts featured are, on the right, Ellickson Agency, Sunny Side Food Store, a bar, a mens'...
Postcard

Coloma Business District

Date: 1910
Description: View down sidewalk on right side of the business district. There is an awning that reads "Restaurant" and "Fine Confectionary". Horses and a horse-drawn wa...
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1910
Description: View across unpaved street towards commercial buildings and storefronts on the right. The Wild Rose State Bank is on the far right. Caption reads: "Main St...
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Bar Row

Date: 1967
Description: A row of three storefronts along State Highway 21 & 73 in Wautoma, Wisconsin. One store front is clearly a bar; a second, whose original front has been gr...
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Oxford Street

Date: 1967
Description: Traffic on Oxford Street (State Highway 21&73), with a parking meter in the foreground and old storefronts in the distance.
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Wautoma Intersection

Date: 1967
Description: Storefronts at the intersection of St. Marie Street and Oxford Street (STH 21&73) in Wautoma, Wisconsin.
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Boothville Quick Stop

Date: 1940
Description: Mobil gas station constructed of split stone. Next door, offering ice cream, soda pop, and groceries to motorists near Silver Lake, was the Boothville groc...
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Robert K. Jones' Hardware Store

Date: 1910
Description: Interior view of Robert K. Jones' hardware store.
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Main Street

Date: 1907
Description: Main Street in Coloma with dirt road and horse-drawn wagons.
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Mercantile Store

Date: 1907
Description: Interior portrait of Otto Lindner and unidentified woman in mercantile store.
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Mercantile Store

Date: 1907
Description: Interior of mercantile store.
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Interior of Mercantile Store

Date: 1907
Description: Interior of mercantile store with staff behind counters.
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Kimball Drug Store

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Description: View of the interior of the Kimball Drug Store. A man and woman stand behind the counter in the very back of the store, partially obscured by a sign readin...
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Howard Kimball in his Pine River General store

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Description: Howard Kimball is seated at his desk looking over papers in his Pine River general store. Various products are visible in the background, as well as stacks...
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Grape Boycott Picketing

Date: 1968
Description: On the left, Ernesto Chacon, is in sunglasses and holding a sign that says, "Don't Buy Grapes," picketing for the United Farmworkers/AFL-CIO grape boycott....
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Wautoma Teens Counter-Picketing Grape Boycott

Date: 1969
Description: Four young men sitting in front of a grocery store. The young man on the left is sitting beside a crate of corn, wearing sunglasses and holding a bag of gr...
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Chris Hyldegard

Date: 1955
Description: Chris Hyldegard, owner of Whispering Pines, sitting behind a glass display case. The picnic area at Whispering Pines was donated in 1977 by Mrs. & Mrs. Chr...
Postcard

Bannerman Avenue

Date: 08 20 1910
Description: Text on front: "Bannerman Ave., Redgranite, Wis." View of Bannerman Avenue, an unpaved street in a small town. A horse-drawn buggy is stopped in the street...
Postcard

Weiser's Store

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Weiser's Store, Saxeville, Wis." A brick building with a decorative storefront has a raised concrete platform and gasoline pumps in f...

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