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Street Corner

Date: 07 05 1965
Description: Street corner with gasoline station, 7-Up sign in front of restaurant next door, and several storefronts across the street.
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Wooded Hillside Early Morning

Date: 07 1965
Description: Wooded hillside in early morning fog, in the Spring Green-Dodgeville area.
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Contoured Cornfield after Harvest

Date: 10 03 1960
Description: A contoured cornfield after harvest, with a distant landscape.
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Wagon In Field

Date: 09 18 1967
Description: A farm wagon in a cornfield surrounded by early morning fog.
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Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company Plant

Date: 10 02 1961
Description: View of the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company plant. The sky is cloudy and smoke obscures some of the stacks. Railroad cars can be are on the righ...
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Westgate Parking Lot

Date: 07 30 1960
Description: Elevated view of the parking lot at the Westgate Shopping Center. The storefronts are on the left, and include Ragatz Shoes, Three Sisters, ?obil Shoes, S....
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Country Road

Date: 09 09 1961
Description: View down a country road with fences on both sides. In the distant sky, a cumulonimbus cloud is backlit by the sun. A farm with a barn and silo is on the r...
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Countryside Sunset

Date: 10 26 1963
Description: An expansive, sunset skyline with a farmyard on the horizon.
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Lake Winnebago

Date: 08 11 1963
Description: Elevated view of the northern end of Lake Winnebago, seen from High Cliff State Park. The sunset is subdued by a large cloud formation over the lake. On th...
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Abandonded Farm with Windmill

Date: 06 09 1963
Description: View of a dilapidated outbuilding and a windmill on an abandoned farm.
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Setting Sun

Date: 08 19 1964
Description: View from rocky shoreline of a sun setting through thin clouds over Lake Michigan. A pier juts out over pilings on the right, and a far shoreline is along ...
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Rolling Farmland

Date: 06 1967
Description: Elevated landscape view of farmland rolling to the horizon. Patches of trees grow throughout the pastures.
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Sloping Farmland

Date: 05 17 1966
Description: View uphill towards a farmer planting crops on a treeless slope which rises just beyond him, with a cloudy sky above. Various grasses are growing in the fo...
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John Deere Farm Machinery Manufacturing Plant

Date: 05 05 1962
Description: The John Deere farm machinery manufacturing plant. "Bascule" passage between buildings which is raised to let freight cars pass on railroad tracks.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 522-531

Date: 
Description: It's a day for celebration, just to be so cheering glad and everyone to know
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Duplex Houses

Date: 1961
Description: Scene with duplex houses and clouds at sunset.
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Cloudy Field

Date: 1960
Description: Large field and trees, with spectacular driven clouds.
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Fleecy Clouds Over Cornfields

Date: 
Description: Disappearing line of a cornfield under a sky with “fleecy” clouds.
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Small Domed Hill

Date: 05 24 1961
Description: View of small domed hill on Highway 19, surrounded by fields.
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 102

Date: 
Description: He was taught restraint and patriotic fiction,
letting automation by
to wipe the chimneys clean of issues
and make horizons in the sky

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