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Filter: FULL_DATE of 1925
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| Description: | A copy of an older photograph by H.H. Bennett. The description reads: "With two women under trees in front of ruined building. The women are Mrs. Greene ... |
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| Description: | A deteriorating wooden structure with two gables on the front, identified as the Red Tavern between Kilbourn and Mauston, built in 1848. |
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| Description: | Men with horses and buggies pose in front of a three-story wooden building identified as the Angier House by a sign painted on the clapboards. Women look o... |
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| Description: | An old commercial structure identified as the Twin Island House. There are feed sacks on the porch and a Coca-Cola sign on the front of the building. This... |
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| Description: | A worn, painted wooden sign reads: "Temperance House by J. Child 1852." It was "at Lima Center, the first house south of the cemetery on the main road bet... |
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| Description: | A painted wooden sign which reads "Hotel by T.B. Petford." |
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| Description: | The barn of W.A. Dean, built in 1844 and used as a stage barn in the stage coach days. The barn's foundation, silo, and milk room are newer. |
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| Description: | A wooden, two-story saltbox style building in an advanced state of neglect. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a small town with a river and bridge in the foreground. High water has washed away the road and river bank at the far end of the bridge. T... |
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| Description: | Herman Rafoth, smoking a pipe, stands behind a two-story wooden house. Rafoth was the driver of a stage held up by Raymond Holzse on May 8, 1880. A woman... |
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| Description: | A copy of a waist-up portrait of Raymond Holzse. Holzse was described as a "bandit of northern Wisconsin, who planned several stage holdups." |
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| Description: | Men and women pose on an old stage coach pulled by four horses. In the background are commercial buildings at the corner of Main and First Streets. The coa... |
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| Description: | View across lake of a four-story wooden mill with two wings, one with an oriel window. There is a building with a cupola, probably a granary, behind the mi... |
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| Description: | A large wooden building with side wing and covered porch, this mill was built in 1853-4 by Newell Dustin. There is a cupola behind the chimney. According t... |
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| Description: | The three-story wooden mill building, built about 1848 by Snow and Walden. The building has twelve over twelve windows and an addition on the left. |
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| Description: | Large wooden mill building. This mill was built in 1872 by Benjamin Boorman on the site of an earlier (1842) mill built by McNeil, Elmore, and McClure. The... |
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| Description: | An unidentified woman stands beside a stone spring house at a spring between Mt. Horeb and Black Earth. |
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| Description: | Three unidentified men and a dog at a spring near the north shore of Lake Mendota. General Henry Dodge camped here in 1832, before the Black Hawk War. |
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| Description: | Charles E. Brown stands beside a chain and crank operated water pump. Brown was the curator of the museum of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and ... |
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| Description: | An unidentified man in a buggy stops to water his horse at an old trough in the middle of the road. There is a handbill on a utility pole on the left. |
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