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| Date: | 11 28 1949 |
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| Description: | County officers and state crime lab officials searching for clues in the pasture near Fitch Hatchery road, where Bernice Johnston was beaten and abandoned.... |
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| Description: | The Illinois Central Railroad Station and train in Fitchburg. There is snow on the ground, and men and women are waiting outside the depot on the platform.... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Wisconsin State Fish Hatchery (aka Nevin Fish Hatchery, 3911 Fish Hatchery Rd). A salt-box house with an additional wing stands next t... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | A landscape view of the Wisconsin State Fish Hatchery (aka Nevin Fish Hatchery, 3911 Fish Hatchery Rd) grounds. A large reservoir is visible with a small o... |
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| Description: | A man and three boys are posing while standing on a handcar at the Fitchburg depot. In the background a man is standing near a horse-drawn wagon. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Lutheran Church during the winter. |
| Date: | 08 09 1957 |
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| Description: | View of the Martin P. Kapec apple orchard along Verona Road in Fitchburg. |
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| Description: | View of a small wooden dwelling with snow in the yard. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length portrait of Sherwin Gillett. The frame has the S. Gillett imprint, but the photograph is from years before he started his own photogra... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the extended Gillett family taken at the home of Sherwin's brother, Rufus. |
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| Description: | Seated from left to right; Martha, Rufus and Emma. Standing from left to right; Martha, Harris and Myron. The 1870 US Census has the family configuration a... |
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| Description: | Indoor portrait of Joseph and Emma Gillett, parents of Sherwin Gillett. |
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| Description: | Photograph of a drawing of Joseph Gillett (father of Sherwin). |
| Date: | 08 05 1964 |
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| Description: | Marion Roberts, a native of Texas, set up the Foamalum Research Laboratory on Fish Hatchery Road. The product was developed in the Bjorksten Research Cente... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | A specimen of Quercus alba, judged to be the largest of its species in Wisconsin, standing alone in a pasture on a sunny summer day. |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | A bare, large bur oak appears almost as a silhouette against the sky and snow-covered ground. It is standing on the grounds of Quivey's Grove Restaurant at... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Five men work at two long sinks which contain trays holding fish eggs. There are two bare lightbulbs overhead. The caption on the reverse of the print re... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Superintendent of Biology Edward "Doc" Schneberger, who is wearing a long white coat, is sitting on a stool and looking through a microscope at a small tab... |
| Date: | 08 30 1958 |
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| Description: | Telephoto shot of Labor Day Sunday traffic in Fitchburg on a two lane highway 14 near Clayton Road. Nineteen cars are north bound. Four cars are south bou... |
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