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| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | This old hotel was known variously as the Park, Brick, or Circus hotel and dates from the 1870s. The large brick structure has a front gable with fancy shi... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the chapel at the Wisconsin School for the Deaf. Rows of empty, bow back chairs face a stage, where more chairs are set up under bunting a... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the main building at the Wisconsin School for the Deaf. The building is surrounded by a lawn and a grove of trees. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Formal studio portrait of the six Reynolds sisters: Anna, Ellen, Lucy, Hattie, Alice and Nellie. Hattie Reynolds, standing in the back left, was Richard Qu... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of a tree lined dirt road from the passenger seat of a Ford Model T, including hood ornament. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Floyd Quinney focusing his Kodak Autographic on a suburban street. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the oldest house in Delavan. There are two large trees in the front yard. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Wisconsin School for the Deaf in Delavan, Wisconsin, with a background image of an elevated view of the school? and surrounding grounds p... |
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| Description: | Cabinet card of an African American man, wearing a formal suit, standing next to a young girl mounted side saddle on a pony. She is reading a book and has ... |
| Date: | 05 01 1976 |
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| Description: | A bride walks down the aisle in the United Church of Christ/Congregational Church in Delavan. An usher stands to the right in the background. A painting of... |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | This 19th century manuscript map shows the roads and proposed routes, villages, and lakes and streams in Walworth County, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | This 1966 map shows topography, roads, highways, golf courses, government buildings, and businesses around Delavan Lake in Walworth County, Wisconsin. Incl... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | This map is a Birdseye view of Delavan, Wisconsin. At the bottom of the map are points of interest that correspond to numbers on the map. Many of the stree... |
| Learn about the Baptist congregations which began organizing in Wisconsin in the 1830s. |
| Professor, University President, Geologist and Author |
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| Discover the history of professor, university president, geologist and author, Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, who establishing the university extension. |
| An intimate look at family, architecture, interiors and fashion in Victorian Wisconsin between 1885 and 1900 |
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| Learn about the lives of upper-middle class Wisconsinites in the Victorian period between 1885 and 1900. |
| Photographs of Public Libraries in Wisconsin |
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| Learn about how the Wisconsin Free Library Commission helped to establish and improve free public libraries in Wisconsin. |
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| Description: | The Elmer Willis Sesl (sp?) farm. The photograph has the term "Exhibit "B"" written on the front in ink. |
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