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Harry Elsworth Cole

Date: 1916
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Harry Elsworth Cole (1861-1928), founder and first president of the Sauk County Historical Society, also president of the...
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Yerkes Observatory

Date: 1910
Description: A distant view of the Yerkes Observatory.
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Telescope at Yerkes Observatory

Date: 1910
Description: The telescope inside the dome at Yerkes Observatory.
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Yerkes Observatory

Date: 1910
Description: Exterior view of the large dome of Yerkes Observatory.
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Mine Building

Date: 1910
Description: Mining building. Possibly in Ironton.
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Cleopatra's Needle

Date: 1910
Description: The rock formation at Devil's Lake known as Cleopatra's Needle.
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Sugar Bowl

Date: 1910
Description: The rock formation at the Dells known as the Sugar Bowl.
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Staudenmayer Graves

Date: 1910
Description: The Staudenmayer grave marker set amid the lush vegetation of Durwards Glen.
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Below the Falls

Date: 1910
Description: Two women stand on a ledge at Skillet Falls.
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Mining Building

Date: 1910
Description: An old, dilapidated mining building surrounded by a field.
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Chimney Rock

Date: 1910
Description: Chimney Rock at the Dells in winter.
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Dells of the Wisconsin River

Date: 1910
Description: A view of the rock formations along the Wisconsin River at the Dells.
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Calydine Glen

Date: 1910
Description: A view of a ravine showing rock strata and a stream.
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Yerkes Observatory

Date: 1910
Description: Exterior view of Yerkes Observatory showing the entrance and two domes. There are prairie plants in the foreground.
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Daniel Reynolds

Date: 1910
Description: Daniel Reynolds poses beside a tree. There is a board sidewalk near a street behind him.
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Cleopatra's Needle

Date: 1910
Description: A view of Cleopatra's Needle with Devil's Lake in the background.
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Gibraltar Rock

Date: 1910
Description: View of the face of the bluff at Gibraltar Rock, with farmland and other bluffs far below in the distance.
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Cleopatra's Needle

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of Cleopatra's Needle with Devil's Lake in the background. There is a cottage on the far side of the lake.
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View of the East Bluff

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view across Devil's Lake from the West Bluff. Railroad tracks are seen along the base of the East Bluff.
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Devil's Doorway

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of a woman standing in the Devil's Doorway above Devil's Lake. There is graffiti on the rocks.

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