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| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Railroad depot taken as part of a survey by the Wisconsin Power and Light Company to promote economic development by emphasizing available buildings and bu... |
| Date: | 01 1964 |
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| Description: | Thick ice encrusting a water tower. Trees and a fence are at the base. |
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| Description: | Winter scene looking down a hill towards skiers about to ski on the Capital Mississippi Alps near La Crosse, Wisconsin. La Crosse is in the background, and... |
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| Description: | View across field of a large house and barn. The city water tower is on a hill on the left. Probably the farm of Will O'Hearn. |
| Date: | 03 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers use a rail car mounted crane to load pilings onto a barge. Bluffs are in the distance. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Three woman bathers in the in-ground swimming pool. Each corner has an electric lamppost. There is a water tower on a hilltop in the distance. |
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| Description: | Men posed standing on top of the City Water Tower, probably seventy feet high. A smaller group of men stand at the base behind a fence, and there is snow o... |
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| Description: | In the far background on the left a man is posed sitting in a buggy hitched to a single horse in a field near the water tower. Other people are standing be... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Warden Kramer and an assistant hold up confiscated sturgeon caught with illegal snag lines. |
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| Description: | View of farmland featuring farmhouses, barns, and a water tower. |
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| Description: | View across railway tracks near a town. Identified as the town of Merrillan, looking north from the Pearl Street crossing. The buildings on the other side ... |
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| Description: | View across yard towards a two-story wooden house, with a wooden outbuilding on the right, with a tall water pipe behind it. Identified as the residence of... |
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| Description: | Elevated view over trees of the town of Muscoda. The water tower is in the center. The commercial district is on the left, and dwellings are in the foregro... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad stockyards, at about 25th Street. |
| Date: | 09 1979 |
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| Description: | "The Ziemer auction is being held at the Dog's farm on County P." |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | "Although being quite elderly, Ed Radke takes much pride in his crops." |
| Date: | 04 17 1997 |
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| Description: | "Shirley Widmer poses on the now completed water tower base." |
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