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Restaurant Operated by Helen Baldwin

Date: 1925
Description: Exterior view down road towards Helen Baldwin's restaurant.
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Indian Agency House

Date: 1932
Description: Indian Agency House near the site of Fort Winnebago.
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The Trimpey Residence

Date: 1935
Description: View from street of the home of Ephraim Burt and Alice Kent Trimpey, 719 Oak Street, after a snowfall. The classical revival style house has symmetrical wi...
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Ice Storm

Date: 1922
Description: A street scene following an ice storm, possibly March 2, 1922. Utility poles are leaning and wires have been brought down by the weight of the ice.
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Devil's Bar-B-Q

Date: 1925
Description: View from across road of the Devil's Barbecue roadside restaurant on South Boulevard, then Highway 12, near Baraboo. The restaurant is a stone building; th...
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Sewing Machine Delivery Truck

Date: 1925
Description: View from across street of a small truck loaded with two "Singer Electric Sewing Machines" parked in front of a store. The store, identified as "The Hat S...
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Corner of Third and Oak Streets

Date: 1930
Description: A man crosses Oak Street in this view north across the intersection with Third Street. The Bank of Baraboo is on the left; First National Bank is diagonall...
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Wellington Hotel

Date: 1932
Description: View from across street of the Wellingon Hotel and Cafe at 142 Fourth Avenue. A portion of the Al. Ringling Theatre is on the right; the Methodist Church i...
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Marriott House

Date: 1940
Description: View from street of the home of William T. Marriott, 721 Ash Street. It is a two-story brick house with Prairie Style influence, with a large chimney in th...
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Snyder House

Date: 1940
Description: View from street of the home of George Snyder at 1219 Ash Street. It is a large wooden Queen Anne-style house with a columned front porch and a corner towe...
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Wood Frame House

Date: 1940
Description: View from street of a two-story, wood frame house with a front porch sittomg on a wooded lot. The house has a large chimney, dentil molding under the eaves...
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Al. Ringling Residence

Date: 1935
Description: Awnings shade the windows of the three-story stone Richardsonian Romanesque style residence of Al. Ringling.
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Trinity Episcopal Church

Date: 1935
Description: View from across street of stone church with a short, sturdy tower, which sits on a corner lot at 111 Sixth Street.
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Philbrick Garage

Date: 1939
Description: An exterior view of the Philbrick Garage, a Ford dealership and Cities Service filling station located at 207 Third Avenue. A sign advertises Quaker State ...
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Risley Brothers Building

Date: 1944
Description: Five women look at a window display at the Schweke Brothers Store, 129 Third Street, which occupied the 1910 Risley Brothers Building. A man sits in the dr...
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Fleet of Four Trucks

Date: 1940
Description: A fleet of four pickup trucks of various makes and a larger truck, all advertising L.C. Welch Plumbing and Heating on the door. They are parked on a reside...
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Automobile Dealerships

Date: 1945
Description: The Du Bois and Kieffer Hudson dealership, and Philbrick Motors, a Willys dealership, which shared a building at 137 Third Avenue. There is a Phillips 66 g...
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Scheible and Dyrud Funeral Home

Date: 1940
Description: View from road of large two-story house which has been converted to a funeral home. The two-story structure has a large porch and brick on the first story,...
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Badger Army Ordnance Plant Housing

Date: 1945
Description: View from road of vines and flower boxes brightening an otherwise unremarkable row of barracks type housing. There is an A & P Food Store on the right, wit...
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Corner Drugstore

Date: 1940
Description: View from cobblestone street of a man standing next to a police officer at the corner of Third and Oak Streets, in front of the Corner Drugstore. A horse-d...

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