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| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | View of a parlor interior (probably that of Herman Amberg Preus's parsonage) with a bay window and draperies, a statue, plants, an ornate clock on a table ... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of magistrates sitting around a table in front of the fire house. Identified (left to right): Edward Funke, William Schuster, David ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A man, possibly John Forbes, working at a roll-top desk in his office over the old Fire Hall. A dog is sitting on a chair in the lower left. Books on the s... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Syl, son of the photographer, stands next to a Christmas tree surrounded with presents, including a punching-bag, books and boxing gloves. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | A family, two parents and five children, gathered around a decorated Christmas Tree with gifts underneath. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Mrs. A.G. Zimmerman posing in a home on W. Washington Avenue. She is standing reading a document in a parlor with a piano. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | A college student setting out to class in zero degree weather. He is holding his books, and is wearing a hat and gloves, and has a scarf wrapped around his... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Otto G. Ansorge sits in his home on Lake Avenue and reads. Ansorge was a jeweler and band director in Winneconne. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Dr. Joseph Smith reads at his desk in his office in the Wisconsin Valley Trust Building. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Photographer Herman Taylor's children sit at a little table in front of the hearth in the library. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | "This picture is of the first telephone exchange that I established in Laona. The girl standing is my youngest daughter. This exchange is still operated in... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Three men wrapped up in blankets waiting at a stadium box office for tickets to go on sale. The man in the middle is reading a book. The man on the right h... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | The State Legislature in session at the State Capitol. The board indicating votes cast is overhead. |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | A group of children is seated on the floor and in chairs, listening to a teacher reading during story time. One boy is lying on the floor. A nun is standin... |
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| Description: | Muriel and Laurie Peterson, stopped on a country road near Scandinavia, looking something up in a dictionary. |
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| Description: | A young girl pages through a book while sitting on a woman's lap. Another woman wearing gloves and a fur coat hands the sitting girl a book while another g... |
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| Description: | Interior portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Clint Smith. He is seated on a fainting couch on the left, and she is sitting in a chair behind him on the right. There i... |
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