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| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | The home of the Reverend Carl Christian Aas (1843-1898), with the family posing around a table in front of a fence in the foreground. There is a rocking ho... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Aerial view including many buildings and a baseball diamond. |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill of the racetrack at the "Big White Fair". |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Reverend Carl Christian Aas (1843-1898) and family gathered outside around a table. There is a rocking horse and baby carriage in the view. The stone house... |
| Date: | 04 30 1949 |
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| Description: | Aerial photograph of Blanchardville. |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | "Stairway to a Champ" float in a parade. The float includes the five cars raced by Van Steiner of Argyle along with his helmets and trophies. Van won the... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View from across street of schoolchildren standing and playing on the sidewalk outside the Benton High School. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for a performance by Madison magician Ben Bergor. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View of the high school. The building features an arched doorway, a hip roof with three dormers on the front and one on the side, a domed steeple with an A... |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | A tourist map of Lafayette County, Wisconsin, that shows the locations of motels, camping, municipal parks, cheese factory tours, waysides, and golf course... |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| "Soap box" coaster car operated by Van Steiner in the All-American Soap Box Derby in 1957. (Museum object # 2009.56.1) |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| "Soap box" coaster car operated by Van Steiner in the All-American Soap Box Derby in 1957. (Museum object # 2009.56.1) |
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| Trade stimulator gumball slot machine seized from a Shullsburg, Wisconsin tavern in 1945. (Museum object #2008.13.1A-B) |
| Madison's Soap Box Derby |
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| Learn about the history of Madison's Soap Box Derby, a popular racing sport amongst young boys nation-wide in the early to mid-1900s. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across lawn of exterior of the Catholic Church, a stone and brick building with stained glass windows. A man is walking down the tree-lined sidewalk o... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A view of a street in the central business district. A restaurant with a group of men in front on the left. Three children with a wagon on the right. A hou... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Esther Peterson, a student at Mud Branch School, District No. 2, poses leaning against a tree on a hill while holding a baseball bat. There is a road and f... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of two women canoeing on the Pecatonica River. There are two more people in a boat in the background on the right. Caption reads: "Scene on Pecatonica... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view from street intersection of the High School gymnasium. Caption reads: "High School Gymnasium, Darlington, Wis." |
| Date: | 07 1955 |
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| Description: | Children lining up on a sidewalk to enter the stone bathhouse that leads to the swimming pool. |
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