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Water Tower and St. Mary's Hospital

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Description: Water tower (built 1875), with St. Mary's Hospital behind it on the left.
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Man in Field

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Description: A man with a beard and wearing a hat is standing in the foreground in a clover field. A cornfield is just beyond the clover field, and beyond is a barn on ...
Postcard

Hillside Home School

Date: 1910
Description: Exterior view of Hillside Home School. Caption reads: "Main Building, Hillside Home School, Hillside, Wis."
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New York State Reformatory

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Description: View across field and fences toward the refirnatory on top of a hill. A tree-covered hill rises above the complex in the background. Outbuildings are at th...
Photograph

Taliesin I from the South

Date: 1912
Description: View of Taliesin I from the South.
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Tony's Place

Date: 1936
Description: View across field of a two-story stone house with a wood barn near Cable Lake.
Photograph

Taliesin I from the South

Date: 1912
Description: View of Taliesin I from the South.
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Bohemian Catholic Church

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Description: Exterior of the Bohemian Catholic Church. The building features a steeple with a cross, lancet windows, and stained glass.
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Herd of Cows in front of Barn

Date: 1932
Description: View from field of a herd of cows behind a fence grazing in a pasture in front of a barn and silo. The silo has a decorative stone pattern. The original ca...
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Pueblo Native American Living Quarters

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Description: View of the land around Pueblo living quarters; the quarters are a stone and mortar construction that rises to a central rectangular building.
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Old English

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Description: View of Old English, an estate in a valley setting of the late Mr. Andrew Carnegie. Later, the building was used as St. Stanislaus Novitiate.
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Farm

Date: 1938
Description: View across field overlooking an unidentified farm. On the left is a two-story stone building, possibly the farmhouse. On the right is a barn. Other outbui...
Photograph

House and Stone Fence

Date: 07 1993
Description: "This home, with stone fence, which is southwest of Theresa, is on Cty Trk Hwy H near Midland Drive."
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Nelson Dewey Farm

Date: 1904
Description: View across field of farm on the estate, showing a sheep or horse shed on the left and a cow or horse barn on the right. In the background is a bluff.
Photograph

Ridgeway Grace Church

Date: 1925
Description: View across road of three-quarter view from front of Grace Church. A double door entrance at the sidewalk level is flanked by stone steps that lead up to a...
Photograph

Old Mill Erected About 1850

Date: 1925
Description: Ruins of the Old Mill, a stone building which has no roof and is missing window glass. Behind on the left is an abandoned shed.
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Church

Date: 1929
Description: View across field of front exterior of a stone church. There is a belfry but no steeple. Stained glass windows are at the front, side, and above the entran...
Postcard

St. Marys Church, School and Parsonage

Date: 1911
Description: Photographic postcard view of the church, with a parsonage on the left and a school on the right. A fenced-in field is across the street and an automobile ...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 85-90

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Description: 200 years this tree grew here and so did I
We were raised here and brought up young ones
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Man on Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1900
Description: Man on a horse-drawn McCormick mower. In the background are the worn walls of a stone building, perhaps the ruined foundation of a church.

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