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Town Hall and Waterfall

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Description: View of Milford City Hall, built in 1916. A waterfall is visible in the foreground.
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Dam Below Mirror Lake

Date: 1921
Description: Water pouring between the logs of the Mirror Lake Dam. The opposite shoreline has trees and plants covering a steep, rocky cliff.
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Reservoir Bulkhead Used for Cranberry Irrigation

Date: 09 25 1922
Description: The reservoir bulkhead and watershed for the Edward Hableman cranberry marshes. The reservoir was part of the irrigation system used to flood the cranberry...
Photograph

Children in Siskiwit River at Bridge Falls

Date: 1936
Description: View of two children standing in the Siskiwit River at the top of Bridge Falls. A woman stands on the shore on the right. There are trees and brush on both...
Poster

Poster for "In Old Kentucky"

Date: 1893
Description: Color lithograph poster. The image depicts two men fighting near a bridge and raging river. One man has driven the other to the precipice. A caption below ...
Photograph

Cable Car Over Niagara Falls

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Description: Passengers aboard a cable car prepare for their trip over Niagara Falls.
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Cable Car Over Niagara Falls

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Description: Passengers aboard a cable car begin their trip across Niagara Falls.
Photograph

Cable Car Over Niagara Falls

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Description: Distant view of passengers aboard a cable car traveling over Niagara Falls.
Print

Wisconsin Bank Note and Lithographing Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Wisconsin Bank Note and Lithographing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a child writing on a tablet and perching on a banner bearing ...
Photograph

Dripping Springs on Grant River

Date: 1900
Description: View from ice-covered river of Dripping Springs along shoreline in winter.
Photograph

Taylor-Martin Ice Cream Truck

Date: 05 27 1936
Description: Elevated view of an International C-30 truck owned by the Taylor-Martin Company parked in front of Niagara Falls.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 1-6

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Description: We've at least been able to conserve something if it's only the idea of conserving for conservation's sake
But the community interests ought to come fir...
Postcard

Trout Steam, Fallhall Glen on Trail 27

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Description: Photographic postcard view of a trout stream with rapids and trees on the shoreline. Caption reads: "Trout Steam, Fallhall Glen on Trail 27, 7 Miles South ...
Photograph

Copper Falls

Date: 1931
Description: A group of people stand on a ledge overlooking Copper Falls.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 507-513

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Description: We tend to forget that at the time of the destruction of the forests, an emergency situation existed. The need for lumber for the building up of the...
Photograph

Copper Falls Waterfall

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Description: Elevated view of Copper Falls on the Bad River. Four people, one man and three women, are posing on rocks at the top of the falls. Surrounding burned-over ...
Photograph

Copper Falls Waterfall

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Description: View through trees of Copper Falls, on the Bad River.
Print

Niagara Falls

Date: 1698
Description: An illustration of two men looking out at Niagara Falls. The Niagara Falls in Jean Louis Hennepin’s A new discovery of a vast country in America (London: M...
Photograph

Group of People on Footbridge

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Description: View from shoreline towards a man and woman posed standing on a footbridge over a small waterfall. On the right a woman sits with a child in her lap on the...
Photograph

Falls of Saint Anthony

Date: 1863
Description: Carte-de-visite view of the Falls of Saint Anthony and logs caught on rocks in the falls.

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