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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of cars parked alongside businesses on Third Street. Bassett's Drugstore is on the left side of the street. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View of the front of the art center. Caption reads: "The Worcester Art Center, Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis." |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View across street toward the union. Caption reads: "The Memorial Union, Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin." |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | View down road curving towards Ephraim. Trees are along a lawn on the right near water. Caption reads: "Ephraim, Wisconsin". |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | View of the exterior of Hotel Black Hawk. Caption reads: "Hotel Black Hawk Gateway To Southern Wisconsin". |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Monument commemorating the place where General Atkinson built a stockade when he and his troops fought Black Hawk. Caption reads: "Near this spot General A... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of the high school with several walkways leading up to it. Caption reads: "'High School,' Ft. Atkinson, Wis." |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Fort Howard Hospital. Within a year after the United States troops landed on the west bank of the Fox River in August, 1816. Dr. Beaumont lived in this hou... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Treeland Pines resort on Lake Chippewa. Caption reads: "Air View of Bob Cammack's Treeland Pines Resort; Lake Chippewa, Hayward, Wis." |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Treeland Pines Resort on Lake Chippewa. Caption reads: "Aerial View of Treeland Pines Resort on Lake Chippewa (The Flowage), Hayward, Wis." |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | View of the bedroom in which Abraham Lincoln stayed in 1859. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | View of chairs and a table set around the fireplace. A mirror is above the fireplace, and a grandmother clock is against the far wall. The windows flanking... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | View of parlor with chairs, fireplaces and other textiles. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | View towards the front and left side of the church. Caption reads: "First Presbyterian Church, Weyauwega, Wis." |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A display of military memorabilia at the Grand Army Home. Caption reads: "Museum - Grand Army Home - King, Wis". |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Old Indian Burying Grounds LaPointe Wisconsin." |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a post office. Caption reads: "Post Office — Walworth, Wisconsin". |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Exterior view across lawn towards the Martin Luther Children's Home. Caption reads: "Martin Luther Children's Home, Stoughton, Wis." |
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