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Fountain Spring House Menu

Date: 08 01 1889
Description: Exterior and interior menu listing of the Fountain Spring House, with visitors strolling the grounds of a tree-filled park with the hotel in the background...
Postcard

High School

Date: 1905
Description: Hand-colored view of the exterior of a high school. A horse is grazing in the yard on the right. Caption reads: "High School, Burlington, Wis."
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 735-742

Date: 
Description: The disconnection sways,
rings out the moving targets racing with the mind in mathematic sound
that vanish in the distance and then appear again
a...
Photograph

Convoy

Date: 1918
Description: View down snowy street towards a group of people gathered outdoors. Horses with sleighs are parked in front of some of the buildings, which are of log cons...
Photograph

Mathias Wissbaum's 100th Birthday

Date: 02 04 1961
Description: Mathias Wissbaum, who was born in Lancaster, Wisconsin, will spend his 100th birthday with his parakeet.
Photograph

Four Friends and a Dog in a Tent

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Description: Arnold Gesell (2nd from left) and three friends posing in the open doorway of a tent, with a dog resting in the grass. The men are wearing trousers, shirts...
Photograph

Virgil Taylor and Three Men

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Description: Indoor group portrait of four European American men posing sitting at a table and eating a meal in a wooden building with exposed walls and ceiling. The ma...
Photograph

Outdoor Group Portrait of European Americans

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Description: Outdoor portrait of an unidentified group of people posing on a front porch. Three women are on porch, and four boys and one girl are sitting on the porch ...
Photograph

Jennie and Edgar Krueger with Pets

Date: 1901
Description: Jennie and Edgar Kueger are sitting cross-legged next to a house with their hats on the ground in front of them. They are both smiling and looking at a bas...
Photograph

Residence on the Corner of Main and Fourth Streets

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Description: Outdoor group portrait from across street of a European American family posing standing and sitting on the porch of a small wooden house. The house is iden...
Photograph

Eliphalet Miner Home

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Description: An Italianate style home, with a small balcony above the front entrance. The windows on the main section of the house are arched and have matching arched s...
Photograph

Elevated View of First Street

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Description: Elevated view of a street, with showing several men and children in the standing around a group of dogs. Location identified as First Street, just south of...
Photograph

Street Scene with Carriages

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of an elevated view of a street scene which includes an assortment of carriages. In her journal of Ceylon, Carrie Chapman Catt r...
Photograph

Family Group on Porch

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Description: Two men and a young boy sit on the edge of the porch. The man on the left is wearing a suit and hat, the boy and the other man are wearing work clothes and...
Photograph

Man on Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1900
Description: Man on a horse-drawn McCormick mower. In the background are the worn walls of a stone building, perhaps the ruined foundation of a church.
Photograph

Loading Dock of Dealership

Date: 1900
Description: View of group of men posing on and near the loading dock of a dealership. One man is sitting on a horse-drawn wagon on the left, other men are on the loadi...
Photograph

Woman and Child with Dog

Date: 1898
Description: Exterior portrait of a woman, a small girl and a dog standing in front of a wooden building. A weathered Fourth of July poster is pasted on the side of the...
Historical Object

74th Regiment Armory

Date: 1901
Description: Souvenir playing card out of a full deck from the Pan-American Exposition. The Three of Clubs displays a drawing of the "74th Regiment Armory," a large cas...
Postcard

Excelsior Shoe & Slipper Co.

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Description: Exterior view across lawn toward a group of people standing on the front walkway of the building. A horse and buggy are parked near the back of the buildin...
Photograph

Squirrel at the Door

Date: 02 2014
Description: View through sliding glass door of a gray squirrel sitting on its haunches in the snow looking directly at the viewer.

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