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Portage Hosiery

Date: 07 1966
Description: View across canal towards the back of the Portage Hosiery. Reeds and trees are along the edge of the canal. Red and pink colored liquid is floating on the ...
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Zinc Mine

Date: 1935
Description: A view of the tailings pile, on the left, and on the right, the shaft house of an abandoned mine. The shaft house has been sided with corrugated metal pane...
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Abandoned School

Date: 1935
Description: A simple one-room schoolhouse with a hip roof is standing behind a neglected fence. Most of the window glass is gone and the paint has faded. There is a de...
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Convent at St. Nazianz

Date: 1935
Description: View across lawn towards a car parked near the entrance of the convent at St. Nazianz. Built of light-colored brick, the convent has been known as the Pink...
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Gills Rock

Date: 09 06 1937
Description: Men and women are standing around the ferry landing at Gills Rock. Automobiles are parked along the drive. Fishing nets on dryers are stacked at left, in f...
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Yahara River

Date: 03 27 1937
Description: View across water towards a well-dressed man and woman posing in front of a car while another man takes their photograph. A woman and young girl are lookin...
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Gabbits Point and Cabin

Date: 1934
Description: View looking up towards a log cabin near the base of a tall rock outcropping.
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Rear View of Kirch Building

Date: 1973
Description: View across West Gorham Street, on the corner of State Street, towards the back side of Kirch Building. The ground floor contains Erehwon Mountain Supply. ...
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Rear View of Joseph Hackel Building

Date: 1973
Description: View across West Johnson Street towards the rear of the Joseph Hackel Building. Though the two halves look like separate buildings from the back, they are ...
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Castle and Doyle Building, Rear View

Date: 1973
Description: View across North Fairchild Street towards the back side of the Castle and Doyle Building, which houses the Castle and Doyle Fuel Company. Paint is peeling...
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C.E. Buell Building, Rear View

Date: 1973
Description: View across North Fairchild Street towards the back side of the C.E. Buell Building. The building is three stories high and contains apartments, with a fir...
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Haswell Building, Rear View

Date: 1973
Description: View across North Fairchild Street towards the back side of the Haswell Building. The building houses Leath's Furniture Store, and there is a loading dock ...
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Run-Down Back Yard

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Description: Run-down back yard of a house in an urban setting. Lantern slide.
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Trash in Yard of House

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Description: Trash-strewn lot and broken fence next to a small house. Laundry is hanging out to dry near the front of the house. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
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Parthenon Gyros Restaurant

Date: 1973
Description: View across State Street towards the Parthenon Gyros restaurant, a weathered, two-story brick building. To the right is the Bertrand Building, and to the l...
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Pueblo

Date: 1927
Description: View across road towardsMargaret Bouer (Mrs. Herbert P.) Brumder, far right, posing with two of her children, Barbara and Philip, at a multistory adobe bri...
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Log Cabin

Date: 1935
Description: Smoke is rising from the flue of a small log cabin in a clearing. There are tree stumps in the foreground.
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Log Cabin

Date: 06 1963
Description: Weathered log cabin surrounded by foliage and trees.
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Tom Duffy's House

Date: 1905
Description: A wooden windmill tower dominates the front yard of a small one-story wood frame house. A group of people are posing on the left, including two couples sit...
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Winter Winds

Date: 1976
Description: Deserted farmstead with a cow standing in the snow at the base of a windmill. The wooden portions of the stone farmhouse are deteriorating, and many pieces...

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