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Fitchburg Business Section

Date: 1923
Description: Business section of Fitchburg. Building and trees to the right with men and cars out front.
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Fitchburg Depot and Train

Date: 1910
Description: Winter scene of Fitchburg depot with train at platform, and a group of men and women waiting outdoors.
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Frank Lloyd Wright - Choles Crash

Date: 11 13 1933
Description: Long distance view looking south, of Frank Lloyd Wright's 1929 L-29 Cord Phaeton automobile and an overturned Choles Floral Company delivery truck, driven ...
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Gertrude Gillette Driving a Tractor

Date: 05 12 1933
Description: Gertrude (Mrs. Rufus) Gillette driving a tractor, 2627 S. Seminole Highway.
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Mrs. Glenn Osmundsen Bookkeeping for Farm

Date: 05 12 1933
Description: Mrs. Glenn Osmundsen, whose husband works 40 acres of Sunny View farm owned by Howard King, 5710 Lacy Road, sitting at a table with a large decorative kero...
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Cathryn Haight Milking Cow

Date: 05 12 1933
Description: Cathryn (Mrs. Ben) Haight sitting on a stool milking a cow by hand on the Capitol View Farm, 5380 Lacy Road.
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Pond at Wisconsin State Fish Hatchery

Date: 1879
Description: A pond at the Wisconsin State Fish Hatchery (aka Nevin Fish Hatchery, 3911 Fish Hatchery Road) with a sign reading "Brook Trout 3 and 4 years old." Funds f...
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Wisconsin State Fish Hatchery

Date: 1918
Description: Members of the Richard Lloyd Jones family and their dog on a pier behind the building overlooking a pond at the Wisconsin State Fish Hatchery (aka Nevin Fi...
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Bernice Johnston Death

Date: 11 28 1949
Description: County Traffic officers, E. W. Kelzenberg and Emil Schmale, and Evan Chambers of the state crime laboratory looking at the death scene of Bernice Johnson. ...
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Bernice Johnston Death

Date: 11 28 1949
Description: County officers and state crime lab officials searching for clues in the pasture near Fitch Hatchery road, where Bernice Johnston was beaten and abandoned....
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Fitchburg Depot and Train

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Description: The Illinois Central Railroad Station and train in Fitchburg. There is snow on the ground, and men and women are waiting outside the depot on the platform....
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Fitchburg Depot

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Description: A man and three boys are posing while standing on a handcar at the Fitchburg depot. In the background a man is standing near a horse-drawn wagon.
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Sherwin Gillett

Date: 1902
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Sherwin Gillett. The frame has the S. Gillett imprint, but the photograph is from years before he started his own photogra...
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Family Gathering at Rufus Gillett's

Date: 1919
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the extended Gillett family taken at the home of Sherwin's brother, Rufus.
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Group Portrait of the Atwood Family

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Description: Seated from left to right; Martha, Rufus and Emma. Standing from left to right; Martha, Harris and Myron. The 1870 US Census has the family configuration a...
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Joseph and Emma Gillett

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Description: Indoor portrait of Joseph and Emma Gillett, parents of Sherwin Gillett.
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Drawing of Joseph Gillett

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Description: Photograph of a drawing of Joseph Gillett (father of Sherwin).
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Marion Roberts, Developer of Foamalum

Date: 08 05 1964
Description: Marion Roberts, a native of Texas, set up the Foamalum Research Laboratory on Fish Hatchery Road. The product was developed in the Bjorksten Research Cente...
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Work at the Fish Hatchery

Date: 1938
Description: Five men work at two long sinks which contain trays holding fish eggs. There are two bare lightbulbs overhead. The caption on the reverse of the print re...
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Biologist at Work

Date: 1938
Description: Superintendent of Biology Edward "Doc" Schneberger, who is wearing a long white coat, is sitting on a stool and looking through a microscope at a small tab...

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