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Filter: Year of 1900-1999
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the blacksmith shop at Walnut Grove farm where Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884) invented and built his first reaper in 1831. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A dilapidated Cedar Bark Lodge with no glass in the windows and an overgrown yard on Hermit Island. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Dilapidated Cedar Bark Lodge on Hermit Island, possibly during a period of renovation. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Three young children playing with a wagon in a squalid alley between rows of impoverished houses. Trash and rubble litter the alley. |
| Date: | 02 17 1915 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of African American children and adults posing in front of a run-down building with a stone chimney — possibly a rural school house. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Freedom House, which was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sponsored Freedom Center. SNCC Arkansas Project. A child s... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of the Stone Building, Henry Mall on the University of Wisconsin Madison campus. Later the Hoard Memorial cenotaph was placed on site. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Congregational Church in dilapidated condition. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Squalid, littered alley. Tire tracks run through the mud between wooden buildings. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Dr. William H. Brisbane house, also known as the Thudium house. It was built between 1868 and 1869 from locally quarried stone for Dr. Brisbane, a physicia... |
| Date: | 06 1925 |
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| Description: | View of three farm buildings - the one in the center is collapsing. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Tavern in a state of deterioration, with rubble in front. The tavern is partly obscured by an oak tree, and a white house stands behind the tavern. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Smokehouse at Hawks Tavern, also known as Hawks Inn. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Burdick homestead, which was originally made from logs. Built in 1842, it was said to be the first house west of the Rock River. |
| Date: | 06 14 1946 |
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| Description: | View of the school surrounded by trees, out in an overgrown field during a warm season. Stony Hill School house, where the first Flag Day was celebrated on... |
| Date: | 06 14 1946 |
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| Description: | Stony Hill School house, where the first Flag Day was celebrated on June 14, 1885. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An old, dilapidated mining building surrounded by a field. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A deteriorating mining building seen from across a field. |
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