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Aerial View of Contour Strip Farming

Date: 1958
Description: Aerial view of contour strip farming with the Obert Olstad farm in foreground. The Carl Backum farm is in the background.
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1915
Description: View down street in the central business district. Automobiles and horse-drawn vehicles are parked along the curbs. Businesses line the street on both side...
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1915
Description: Slightly elevated view of the central business district looking down middle of street. Automobiles and horse-drawn vehicles are parked along the curbs. On ...
Photograph

Unseth and Bekkedal Block

Date: 
Description: View of a street corner in a central business district. In the foreground is a boy standing next to a parked car, and another boy and a man are standing i...
Photograph

Terraced Drainage

Date: 1936
Description: A level pasture terrace showing water in the channel. These terraces, largely experimental, are built on the level, drainage being provided for by means of...
Postcard

New Coon Prairie Church

Date: 1910
Description: View toward the front of the church, a brick building with two spires. Caption reads: "The New Coon Prairie Church."
Photograph

Man Operating Farmall Cub in Tobacco Field

Date: 1949
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of Jules Rudie, IH dealer at Westby, Wisconsin operating a Farmall Cub in six acres of tobacco, which previous to this y...
Photograph

Man Operating Farmall Cub in Tobacco Field

Date: 1949
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of Jules Rudie, IH dealer at Westby, Wisconsin operating a Farmall Cub in six acres of tobacco, which previous to this ...
Photograph

Tobacco Field

Date: 07 1936
Description: Straight rows of tobacco plants flourishing in a large field. There are farm buildings and a windmill in the background. Utility poles on the are on the ri...
Photograph

The Big Jump

Date: 01 1952
Description: Ski jumping at Timber Coulee. A large crowd is gathered to watch. Today it is named Snowflake Ski & Golf Club. It is host to a ski jumping tournament since...
Photograph

Parallel Progressions

Date: 1977
Description: Skiers on a slope make an interesting parallel pattern against the snow.
Postcard

Westby Church

Date: 1920
Description: Handwritten on reverse: "Westby Church." A brick church built in the Gothic style with two towers.
Property Record

202 MAIN ST

Community: Westby
County: Vernon
Historic Name: WESTBY THEATER
Reference Number: 21989
Property Record

200 MAIN ST

Community: Westby
County: Vernon
Historic Name: Thorson Block
Reference Number: 27380
Property Record

200 W STATE ST

Community: Westby
County: Vernon
Historic Name: Ramsland/BEKKEDAL HOUSE
Reference Number: 63511
Property Record

101 BLACK RIVER AVE

Community: Westby
County: Vernon
Historic Name: Ole Thoreson House
Reference Number: 68733
Property Record

1ST ST, NORTH SIDE

Community: Westby
County: Vernon
Historic Name: Electric Light and Water Works
Reference Number: 72296
Property Record

206 MAIN ST

Community: Westby
County: Vernon
Historic Name: 
Reference Number: 72297
Property Record

101 S BEKKEDAL AVE

Community: Westby
County: Vernon
Historic Name: Bekkedal Leaf Tobacco Warehouse No. 4
Reference Number: 72298

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