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Barn Raising

Date: 1895
Description: A large group of men pose on the wooden framework of a barn that they are building.
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Young Couple

Date: 1900
Description: Young couple in moderately intimate pose against the end of a tall board fence on a boardwalk. A stone wall is next to the fence, and in the background on ...
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Wisconsin Historical Society Building

Date: 1936
Description: View from Langdon Street towards the front of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Vines cover the stone balustrade and trees are in the foreground.
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Wisconsin Historical Society Building

Date: 1940
Description: The State Street side of the Wisconsin Historical Society building and sidewalk. A large tree is in the left foreground. Bascom Hill is in the Background.
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Tank Cottage

Date: 1940
Description: View of the Tank Cottage, aka the Roi-Poerlier-Tank Cottage. The cottage was built in 1776 by Joseph Roi, a fur trader, who lived in it until 1805 when it ...
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Old Houses on Shakerag Street

Date: 10 1948
Description: The Pendarvis and Trelawny homes on Shake Rag Street, originally Cornish miner's cottages.
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Wisconsin Historical Society Building

Date: 1949
Description: A view through the trees of the front of the Wisconsin Historical Society building from Langdon Street. Vines cover the stone balustrade.
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Wisconsin Historical Society Building

Date: 1950
Description: View of the front of the Wisconsin Historical Society. A man is walking down the sidewalk on the left. Vines cover the stone balustrade. A tree is in the f...
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Spring Thaw

Date: 1952
Description: The Devils River cascades past old bridge abutments in the spring. The tree-lined shoreline and stone abutments are still covered with snow.
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Stubby Sentinel

Date: 1954
Description: View down road towards the Fond du Lac lighthouse, built in 1933. There are cumulus clouds in the sky, and pine trees are lining the shore.
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Wisconsin Historical Society Building Entrance Marker

Date: 1956
Description: The official site marker in front of the Wisconsin Historical Society Building.
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Portrait of a Hunter

Date: 1961
Description: A hunter posing on a stone wall with his shotgun and the grouse he bagged. He is wearing a billed cap, plaid coat, tough trousers and lace-up knee-high boo...
Postcard

State Historical Society of Wisconsin and University of Wisconsin Lower Campus

Date: 1963
Description: Color postcard of the exterior of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin from across the Library Mall. The University of Wisconsin Memorial Library is o...
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Farm

Date: 1963
Description: Rustic dirt road leading to a farm. Loose stone walls line both sides of the driveway, and a large tree is in the left foreground.
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Boat Slip

Date: 1963
Description: Boats moored at a boat slip. In the foreground is a bench near a concrete wall over which rope is hanging in loops.
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Persuasion

Date: 1975
Description: The State Legislature in session at the State Capitol. The board indicating votes cast is overhead.

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