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| Description: | Barn raising. The foundation is constructed from local fieldstone or "pudding stone," found in the nearby fields. A large group of men are is posing holdin... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Promotional circular announcing the 1926 calendar for McCormick-Deering farm machinery. The calendar features a young woman looking coyly over her shoulder... |
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| Description: | Children riding the carousel (merry-go-round) at Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo), donated by the citizens of the Madison area. A stone bridge is in the ba... |
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| Description: | View from a stone bridge towards Vilas Park, with children riding the carousel (merry-go-round) and a kiddie train adjacent to the lagoon. |
| Date: | 11 01 1937 |
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| Description: | New refrigeration building and barn at the State Experimental Game and Fur Farm. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | View down hill towards two men in the foreground standing on top of a stone fence looking out onto fields where two or three men are working with two wagon... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Four men stand with a scythe, hoe and pitchfork in the yard of a farmhouse. By the porch of the house are three women. The wood frame house has a stone fou... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | A well-dressed family of four is posed in front of a stone fence with a picket gate. Behind them is a Greek Revival frame house with shuttered windows. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Mapleside, the home built by Able Dunning in 1853 on what is now University Avenue. It was razed in 1970 to make way for a Burger King restaurant. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Mapleside, the home built by Able Dunning in 1853 on what is now University Avenue. It was razed in 1970 to make way for a Burger King restaurant. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A family is seated on the wrap-around porch, with two men posed holding shotguns standing below them at foundation level. There are two windows in the ston... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View down road towards the Fond du Lac lighthouse, built in 1933. There are cumulus clouds in the sky, and pine trees are lining the shore. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of the cottage from the outside, with trees and plants surrounding it. A garden is in the foreground with a low-lying brick wall. The cottage's porch ... |
| Date: | 07 1929 |
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| Description: | View of the front path leading to the cottage. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | The Roi-Porlier-Tank Cottage with trees scattered about, and a low, stone wall in the front. The caption accompanying this image reads as follows: "Tank Co... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of the cottage with a stone wall in front of it, and surrounded by plants and trees. On the original site on the west side of the Fox River before res... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of the Tank Cottage, aka the Roi-Poerlier-Tank Cottage. The cottage was built in 1776 by Joseph Roi, a fur trader, who lived in it until 1805 when it ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester Low 20th Century manure spreaders. Features an illustration of trees with a stone wall around a... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Taliesin I courtyard looking southeast toward living room wing from the hayloft. |
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