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John MacKenzie and Portage Jail

Date: 1900
Description: Sheriff John MacKenzie poses in front of the Portage jail with his staff.
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William Jennings Bryan Addressing Crowd

Date: 10 03 1900
Description: View from audience of William Jennings Bryan, as Democratic nominee for election to the presidency, addressing a crowd, estimated at 15,000 people, at a st...
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Columbus Foods Corporation Receiving Award Flag

Date: 03 06 1944
Description: Columbus Foods Corporation received an "A" for achievement award flag for food production and canning. Taking part in the ceremony, left to right are: J.L....
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Columbus Foods Corporation Employee Receiving Award

Date: 02 06 1944
Description: L.C. Richards, assistant factory superintendent of the Columbus Foods Corporation, receiving the first "A" Achievement award pin from Donald E. Smith, depu...
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Columbus Foods Corporation Employees with Award Pins

Date: 03 06 1944
Description: Five employees of Columbus Foods Corporation, who have been with the firm for 30 years or more, received "A" achievement award pins for food production and...
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War Work Awards Presentation Ceremony

Date: 03 13 1944
Description: Gordon Gunderson, State Supervisor, Office of Distribution, War Food Administration, watches as Corp. David Moul, Lodi, pins a citation on the lapel of Gor...
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Employees of California Packing Corporation

Date: 03 13 1944
Description: The Arlington plant of California Packing Corporation employess holding award flag. They earned an "A" achievement award for food production. Left to right...
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Employees of California Packing Corporation

Date: 03 13 1944
Description: Representative employees received "A" achievement award pins at a presentation program when the Arlington plant of the California Packing Corporation recei...
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Wisconsin Dells High School Band

Date: 1945
Description: Group portrait of the Wisconsin Dells High School Band in uniform, posing with their instructor.
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Indian Agency House

Date: 07 07 1929
Description: Supreme Court Justice Fowler at a meeting of Women's Club representatives and other citizens in relation to the proposed purchase of the Agency house.
Postcard

Cook Street

Date: 1905
Description: Colorized postcard of a view of Cook Street. Caption reads: "Cook Street, Portage, Wis."
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Exterior of Portage Jail

Date: 1900
Description: Group posing on lawn outside of the large brick building with a steep hip roof. Four men are identified (from left to right) as the turnkey, William MacKen...
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Roundy Couglin and Show Troupe

Date: 06 23 1949
Description: Group portrait of Roundy Couglin and members of the Dodson Imperial Shows at Camp Wawbeek, where they had gone to entertain the 93 children camping there. ...
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Home Talent League Championship

Date: 09 10 1953
Description: League Commissioner C.A. Lewis congratulates Manager Erhardt Toppe of Wyocena's baseball team after winning the Home Talent League's championship in Rio, W...
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Lodi High School Boys Basketball Squad

Date: 12 18 1954
Description: Group portrait of the Lodi High School boys basketball team in uniform with their two coaches, Bob Weber, upper left, and Wayne Nelson, upper right.
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William Evans of Fall River Canning Company

Date: 1969
Description: Fall River Canning Company's president William Evans stands in the center with migrant farm workers around him after their walkout.

Eighty workers of His...

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Scofield Cottage Hotel

Date: 1926
Description: A man and woman sit across from one another on an enclosed porch at the Scofield Cottage Hotel.
Postcard

Commercial Hotel

Date: 06 28 1915
Description: Photographic postcard of the exterior of the three-story Commercial Hotel. The building has a false front. Two women stand on the balcony and two men stand...
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Main Building — Schofield Cottage Hotel

Date: 1927
Description: The main building of Schofield Cottage Hotel with a large porch and stone columns. On the lawn in front posing is a man standing, and two children sitting,...
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Springhill Cottages "At the Dells"

Date: 1927
Description: Group portrait of family sitting on a bench in the foreground in front of a guest cottage. One boy sits on a porch railing behind the group. There is an au...

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