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Park Avenue

Date: 1905
Description: View of Park Avenue. A street in a neighborhood with dwellings, sidewalks and trees, a horse and buggy waits at the curb. Caption reads: "Park Avenue, Appl...
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Exterior of Residence

Date: 1905
Description: View across yard towards a residence. Caption reads: "Residence Scene Osceola, Wis."
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Exercise at a Public School

Date: 1909
Description: Elevated view of a large group of school children exercising in the schoolyard. Boys and girls are on separate sides of the yard. All are the students are ...
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Residential Street

Date: 1908
Description: Angled view of the left side of a residential street lined with trees, probably taken in early spring. The home of A.H. Allyn is on the left. A covered fou...
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Old Stone House Erected About 1800 for an Indian School

Date: 1909
Description: Photographic postcard view of a stone house with a group of people standing on the porch. Wood and barbed wire fencing is in the front yard. Caption reads:...
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Feeding the Chicken and Geese

Date: 1900
Description: An unidentified woman standing near a shed is feeding chickens and geese in the barnyard.
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"Dawn Manor," Lower Dells

Date: 1900
Description: Photographic postcard view from the road of Dawn Manor, at Lower Dells, Lake Delton. The Dawn Manor is a small "gothic" house on the Dell View Hotel ground...
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Methodist Church and Parsonage

Date: 1906
Description: A woman and girl stand on the sidewalk leading along the side of the Methodist church from the parsonage to the street. There is a man near the wood frame ...
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High School and Graded School

Date: 1908
Description: View of the high school (built 1908) and the Graded School (built 1894). Caption reads: "High School and Graded School, Cedarburg, Wis."
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High School

Date: 1909
Description: Hand-colored postcard of the high school obscured by trees. The red brick building has two-stories with a bell tower. Caption reads: "High School, Elroy, W...
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Grand View Hotel

Date: 1908
Description: The Grand View Hotel — a two-story wood frame building with a porch along a dirt road. Caption reads: "Grand View Hotel, Fremont, Wis."
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Gruss aus der Feststadt

Date: 1908
Description: Illustrated view of the home of Germania Saengerfest. Caption reads: "Gruss aus der Feststadt."
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Salem Evangelical Church

Date: 08 26 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "Salem Evangelical Church, Lomira, Wis." A brick, one-story church inside a fenced yard with trees.
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Freeman Street, Looking North

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Freeman Street, Looking North, Genoa Junction, Wis." Homes on an unpaved street in a tree-lined, residential neighborhood.
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Dunbar Avenue, Looking West

Date: 08 25 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "Dunbar Avenue, looking West, Waukesha, Wis." An unpaved road with curb and sidewalks in a residential neighborhood with trees. There ...
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Alf. T. Ringling House

Date: 09 20 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "Residence of Alf. T. Ringling, Baraboo, Wis." A three-story home on a terraced lot with stone walls. The neighborhood is built on a h...
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Dr. Hittner

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Dr. Hittner, Seymour, Wis." The home of a Doctor on an unpaved residential street with sidewalks and trees. Another home is on the le...
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Residence Scenery

Date: 1907
Description: Text on the front reads: "Residence Scenery, Seymour, Wis." Handwritten on the back: "Residence of Dr. Hittner, about the turn of the century, 1900-1910." ...
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Small Town Neighborhood

Date: 10 29 1906
Description: View from a hillside towards a woman walking on an unpaved neighborhood street in a small town, with dwellings and trees on both sides. Along the horizon a...
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Bird's Eye View of Weyauwega

Date: 11 13 1908
Description: Text on front reads: "Birds Eye View of Weyauwega, Wis." Elevated view of the town with a neighborhood in the foreground. A street runs diagonally towards ...

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