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Mining Scene

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Description: An unidentified mining scene where two men are cranking a windlass, common only in early lead and zinc mining in southwest Wisconsin. The windlass was used...
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Polperro Undergoing Restoration

Date: 1940
Description: A restored Cornish miner's house, called Polperro, built in the 1840s, on Shake Rag Street undergoing restoration. The house was temporarily covered with s...
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Depot

Date: 1909
Description: Exterior view from railroad tracks of the Depot. Four men are standing alongside the depot building near a wheeled cart. The building features two signs, o...
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Jake Wepking

Date: 1932
Description: Jake Wepking, clerk of School District No. 4, poses in front of the Strawberry School. He is wearing bib overalls and holds a cap in his hand. Wepking was ...
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Russell Wepking

Date: 1932
Description: Russell Wepking, 14, posing beside an automobile. The son of Frank Wepking and a student at Strawberry School, Russell "Won distinction of having Grand Cha...
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On the Hay Wagon

Date: 1932
Description: Leland Kopps holds a dog as he poses standing with his father John on top of a load of hay. A team of two horses are harnessed to the wagon which pulls a h...
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Bluff at Woodlawn Farm

Date: 1932
Description: View looking up at two boys with two dogs posing atop a bluff at the Charles Gottschall farm.
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Bringing in the Herd

Date: 1932
Description: Russell, left, and Ira Wepking pose as they pause from bringing in the dairy cows; they have taken off their hats, which are on the ground. A small dog sta...

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