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State Trout Hatchery

Date: 1925
Description: Text on front reads: "State Trout Hatchery, Wild Rose, Wis." The Fish Hatchery was built in 1908. View along hedge line and lawn towards the hatchery build...
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Minnehaha

Date: 1919
Description: Text on front reads: "Greetings from Whitehall, Wis. Minnehaha." A Native American woman in indigenous dress, standing in the entrance to a tipi. A small b...
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Grade School

Date: 05 30 1932
Description: Text on front reads: "Grade School, Westfield, Wis." Originally built in 1887, the grade school students were downstairs and the high school students upsta...
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Canning Factory

Date: 05 25 1931
Description: Text on front reads: "Canning Factory, Saukville, Wis." Brick factory buildings with a tall chimney and a water tower. A man and an automobile can be seen ...
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Main Street

Date: 06 26 1929
Description: Text on front reads: "Main Street, Spooner, Wis." Unpaved main street with many businesses on both sides. Automobiles and trucks are on the street or parke...
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Masonic Temple

Date: 1923
Description: Text on front reads: "Masonic Temple - Sparta, Wis." This Neoclassical building was built in 1923 and faced with tapestry cream brick. In front is a signpo...
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Greetings from Alma, Wis.

Date: 1923
Description: Photographic postcard of scenes from Alma. Three scenes from areas around Alma show the town along the Mississippi River, an elevated view of the river bet...
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High School

Date: 10 17 1923
Description: Exterior view of the two-story brick High School building with basement. A bare flagpole can be seen on the roof. Caption reads: "High School, Arcadia, Wis...
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Swedish Lutheran Church

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Description: Exterior view of the Swedish Lutheran Church, a brick building with a bell tower and steeple. Stained-glass windows are on the front and sides. Caption rea...
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High School

Date: 1930
Description: View looking up slope towards the brick high school building. Snow is on the ground. Caption reads: "High School, Durand, Wis."
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Public Library

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Description: View of the public library with ivy covered walls. Caption reads: "Public Library, Ladysmith, Wis."
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Kinney's Summer Resort

Date: 1920
Description: Caption reads: "Kinney's Summer Resort, Wild Rose, Wis." A group of adults, seated and standing, on a screened porch at a resort. The man in the foreground...
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D.D. Williams Residence

Date: 1905
Description: View across lawn towards a two-story home with an attic and a wrap-around porch with columns. Caption reads: "D.D. Williams Residence, Markesan, Wis."
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State Bank, Centuria

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Description: Exterior view from street of the State Bank with a corner entrance. The brick building has two-stories, with a set of wooden stairs on one side leading up ...
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Main Street East

Date: 1920
Description: View of Main Street with a general store in the center. An automobile and a horse-drawn vehicle in the street. People are gathered on the front stoop of th...
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Bank of Durand

Date: 1910
Description: Black and white photographic postcard view from across street towards a two-story brick corner building, labeled as the Bank of Durand. Two Ford Model T's ...
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Tourist Park

Date: 1910
Description: View looking downhill towards a small structure made of logs and with a large screened porch, set in a wooded area. A woman is standing on the walk near th...
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Gonring's Resort

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Description: View across lake towards the Gonring's Resort from Cedar Lake. Along the shoreline are two buildings, a parking lot and a boat landing. Caption reads: "Gon...
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Chas. W. Fish's Residence

Date: 1924
Description: Photographic postcard view of a wood-frame home with young trees in the large yard. A lamppost is on the corner. Other homes are further down the block. Ca...
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Wisconsin River Valley from Nelson Dewey State Park

Date: 1937
Description: Elevated view of the Wisconsin River Valley, looking down across tree-covered bluffs. Caption reads: "Wisconsin River Valley from Nelson Dewey State Park."

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