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Jacquard Loom

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Description: Large machine indoors. Caption reads: "Hartford, Conn. Weaving carpet material in the Bigelow-Hartford mill on a Jacquard loom."
Postcard

Buster Brown at the High School

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Description: Elevated view of a crowd gathered for the arrival of Buster Brown at the high school. Buster is in the backseat of a roadster.
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Invitation to Idleness

Date: 07 1955
Description: A tree-shaded bridge over a river, probably in a park.
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Pike Lake

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Description: Plants and grasses are growing on a hill overlooking Pike Lake State Park.
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Pike Lake State Park

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Description: View looking down hill towards a Department of Natural Resources employee standing under a tree which is overlooking Pike Lake State Park. Pike Lake is in ...
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Boy Posed Standing Outdoors

Date: 1918
Description: Unidentified boy posed standing in the yard in front of a frame house, probably in Hartford.
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Wedding Dance

Date: 10 12 1952
Description: Bintzler-Geschke wedding dance.
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Company D Leaving Hartford

Date: 08 17 1917
Description: Large crowd of people gathered at the train station to see off Company D of the 5th Wisconsin National Guard Infantry. The soldiers, some leaning out of th...
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Company D Leaving Hartford

Date: 1917
Description: Elevated view looking down at a large crowd of people gathered at the depot to see off Company D of the 5th Wisconsin Infantry leaving Hartford for Camp Do...
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Antique Cars on Display

Date: 08 18 1987
Description: At a Hartford antique show, a man looks over a well-maintained Model T Ford. In the background other people inspect more vintage automobiles.
Postcard

Kissel Motor Car Company

Date: 1911
Description: Photographic postcard view of the Kissel Motor Car Company. The elevated view shows the factory buildings, water towers, railroad cars and track. A dirigib...
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Fifty Kissel Taxis

Date: 08 07 1929
Description: A line of fifty "Bradford Cabs" manufactured by the Kissel Motor Car Company of Hartford, Wisconsin. Caption reads: "'Bradford Cabs' built by the Kissel Mo...
Map or Atlas

Panoramic View of Hartford, Washington Co., Wisconsin

Date: 1879
Description: Bird's-eye map of Hartford.
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1900
Description: View of unpaved Main Street, with horse-drawn vehicles along the curbs.
Postcard

The Second Station of the Cross

Date: 1910
Description: A group of children are praying with their hands clasped in front of them, at the second station of the cross on Holy Hill, near Hartford, Wisconsin. Capti...
Photograph

Holy Hill

Date: 1910
Description: View of the Carmelite Church of Our Lady, Help of Christians and the nearby grotto. Caption reads: "Grotto of Church, Holy Hill Wis."
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Holy Hill

Date: 1922
Description: View of a man standing at a fence and looking out over the land below Holy Hill.
Postcard

Holy Hill Shrine

Date: 1935
Description: View of a Holy Hill shrine depicting one of the stations of the cross. Caption reads: "Holy Station, Jesus is Laid in the Tomb, Holy Hill, Wis".
Photograph

Shrine

Date: 1922
Description: View of a shrine on Holy Hill.
Painting

Holy Hill

Date: 1930
Description: Holy Hill.

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