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Cow Chip Tossing Contest

Date: 09 1980
Description: A competitor in the State Cow Chip Tossing Contest has 30 seconds to choose her cow chip. The cow chips are specially made from cow manure.
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Construction on Bridge

Date: 1910
Description: Construction gang at work on the Wisconsin River Bridge.
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Cigarette Sales

Date: 06 1981
Description: Winnebago Enterprises trailer, advertising drive-up cigarette sales.
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House of David Baseball Team Advertisement

Date: 08 25 1936
Description: The "House of David" traveling baseball team advertisement for an upcoming game.
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Tandem Zebra Team

Date: 1909
Description: Two men sit in a two-wheeled buggy hooked up to zebras, next to a fence near the Ring Barn on the left (which is still standing), with several male spectat...
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Yellow Thunder Cairn

Date: 1909
Description: Rock cairn for Yellow Thunder, chief of the Winnebago.
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Sauk County Road

Date: 1920
Description: Loganville Road in Sauk County taken by the Wisconsin Good Roads Association. The photograph was meant to create a contrast between the new improved road ...
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"Colsac II" Ferry

Date: 1963
Description: View from road of the ferry "Colsac II" arriving at the shoreline of the Wisconsin River, with an automobile on the right waiting to board.
Postcard

Devil's Lake, Wisconsin State Park. Castle Rock

Date: 1914
Description: Castle Rock at Devil's Lake, number 4801 in E.A. Bishop's Wisconsin State Park Series. Caption on back of postcard reads: "Our State Parks now rank among t...
Postcard

Taxidermist Cart

Date: 1907
Description: A man in a suit and hat, and a ribbon on his lapel, poses in front of a cart with a sign that reads: "E.D. Ochsner, Taxidermist, Prairie du Sac, Wis." Bunt...
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Sauk County Farm

Date: 1945
Description: Elevated view of a large farm in a valley. Caption reads: "Prosperous Sauk County Dairy farm — nestling in a fertile valley between timber-clad hills. Phot...
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St. Mary's Ringling Hospital

Date: 11 1922
Description: Hand-tinted exterior view of the covered entryway to St. Mary's Ringling Hospital. A sign hanging on the building reads: "Do Not Park Here", and an America...
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Pasture Near Spring Green

Date: 05 20 1962
Description: View across a field toward a wooded hillside. A fence is along the edge of the field. Caption reads: "Spring Green (vicinity) Wis May 20 1962 Sunny pasture...
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Reedsburg Mill Independence

Date: 04 1954
Description: Several men are standing and sitting around a desk, where one man is signing a document. A calendar for the Norris Wholesale Corporation is on the wall beh...
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Archie and Dorothea Johnson

Date: 04 16 1978
Description: Portrait of a man and woman posing sitting on the steps in front of a door. The man has his arm around the woman's shoulder. Caption reads: "Archie and Dor...
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Klondike Flapjacks

Date: 05 1968
Description: A Boy Scout or Scout Leader, with "Madison Wis 101" on his shoulder patch, making pancakes in a skillet over an open fire. Beside the skillet is a coffee p...
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Spring Green-Plain Road

Date: 06 1950
Description: View across a gently sloping prairie field. Trees are in the distance, and power lines and a road are on the left. The Highway Commission descriptive remar...
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Sauk County Junior Deputy Sheriff Shooting Practice

Date: 04 06 1968
Description: Two men assisting two children in firing guns. Caption reads: "Shooting on a rifle range is part of the program for the Sauk county junior deputy sheriff p...
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Devil's Lake State Park

Date: 1945
Description: University students on a field trip to Devil's Lake State Park climb the trail up through the piles of talus (broken rocks) on the slope. A couple in the f...
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Little Mushers

Date: 1970
Description: Two children riding in a dog sled driven by an adult standing in the back. Three dogs are pulling the sled. The child in front is wearing sunglasses, and t...

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