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| Date: | 05 1947 |
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| Description: | Five men are driving tractors along a field. Caption reads: "Ft Atkinson Wis 1947-9 Weckler farm Neighbors help Weckler when daughter was kidnapped". |
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| Description: | A granite stone behind a low fence commemorating the Black Hawk War. Text on front of card reads: "Black Hawk War Monument Erected by Fort Atkinson D.A.R.,... |
| Date: | 03 15 1939 |
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| Description: | Fort Atkinson street corner, showing Beebe's 5-10 & Variety Store, Mueller Co. Hatchery and Crystal Restaurant. |
| Date: | 03 16 1939 |
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| Description: | Fort Atkinson street corner showing automobile parked in front of Epert Dry Goods Co. Also shows lamppost and signs for Highways 12, 26 and 89. |
| Date: | 03 16 1939 |
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| Description: | Fort Atkinson street corner showing, left to r.ight, a drug store, photography studio, C.B. Hinterschied 5 cent-$1.00 store, The Green Hat Lunches and Hopk... |
| Date: | 03 16 1939 |
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| Description: | View of Main Street, in Fort Atkinson, looking toward the bridge. |
| Date: | 01 28 1958 |
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| Description: | Portrait of La Vern Reu. He was a junior at the U.W. College of Agriculture. |
| Date: | 05 18 1964 |
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| Description: | Governor John W. Reynolds lights the "torch of liberty" at the State Capitol for a team of cross-country runners from Fort Atkinson High School, who carrie... |
| Origin of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin |
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| Discover the history of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1981 |
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| Description: | A tall pine shading the front of the two-story brick house built by Rufus White in 1864. The tree was probably planted around the same time. Frank Hoard wa... |
| Date: | 1981 |
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| Description: | A row of mature maples standing along Highway 12. They were planted by Rufus Dodge, one of the early settlers of Fort Atkinson. |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | A large maple standing on the Jones Dairy Farm. It was planted by Icabod Cole, the father of Mrs. Milo (Mary Frances Cole) Jones. There is snow on the grou... |
| Date: | 06 2008 |
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| Description: | View looking east of a 1000-year-old Indian intaglio effigy in the shape of a panther. The effigy, which is on the north bank of the Rock River, is filled ... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Field artillery piece of the First World War pointing across the Rock River from the grounds of the American Legion post. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over the ox-bow of the Bark River in early morning. Buildings, dwellings and barns are in the foreground at the bottom of the hill, and a bri... |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Half gallon milk bottle used by Hoard's Dairyman Farm of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, c. 1934-1944. (Museum Object 1977.354.84) |
| 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. |
| Fort Atkinson Poet |
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| Biography of Lorine Niedecker, a poet raised in Fort Atkinson. |
| Read about tornadoes in Wisconsin, including some of the worst to have struck the state. |
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