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| Date: | 05 31 1965 |
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| Description: | A row of sculptured horses and a cow's head at the Creative Display Company, currently known as the FAST Corporation. |
| Date: | 08 09 1931 |
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| Description: | Electric switchboard at Dependent Children's Home. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View down street towards an intersection. Large lampposts are at each corner. A sign on the building on the left reads: "Sidney." Caption reads: "Oak St. E... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View across lawn with trees toward the courthouse. Caption reads: "Court House, Sparta, Wis." |
| Date: | 11 02 1936 |
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| Description: | A man loads a milk can into a McCormick-Deering milk cooler at the State Public School for Dependent and Neglected Children. |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of bridge and stream. |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Looking west down road towards the bridge. The roadway is damaged in two spots, leaving large gaps. The walls of the bridge are still intact. Traffic barri... |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | View from water of bridge collapsed into the river, with the metal supports half submerged and the brick base crumbling. Dwellings can be seen along the hi... |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Looking south down street, with storefronts on either side. The street and bridge are undergoing reconstruction. Military vehicles are in the background. |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Looking Northwest. Workers are standing on the right next to the exposed drainage pipes in the damaged bridge. Sheets and quilts are covering the entranc... |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Looking south. A jeep sits in the middle of the construction zone. The storefronts are covered with quilts and blankets. |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Behind the drugstore, looking downstream. The water under the bridge is full of construction debris. |
| Date: | 05 31 1965 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a farm with a round barn. A truck and farmhouse is behind and to the left in a grove of trees. |
| Date: | 05 31 1965 |
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| Description: | Sculptured Advertising Company (F.A.S.T. Corporation of Sparta is an outgrowth of Sculptured Advertising) with unfinished prop displays, perhaps made of fi... |
| Date: | 07 04 1980 |
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| Description: | Cuban Family sitting on porch steps with sign on door that says: "Independence 4 of July USA." Photographs made on July 4, 1980, by Archibald of Cuban refu... |
| Date: | 07 04 1980 |
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| Description: | Catholic mass with Cuban refugees who had arrived as a result of the Port of Mariel exodus, and were housed at Camp McCoy. |
| Date: | 07 04 1980 |
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| Description: | Members of family seated and standing near the entrance to their home. Photographs made on July 4, 1980, by Archibald of Cuban refugees who had arrived as ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Assembled group of Wisconsin National Guard officers at Camp McCoy. A few tents can be seen in the background at right. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A group portrait of the Motor Transportation and Utilities Department of the Sparta District CCC. Jacob Spreuer, junior dispatcher, is in the second row. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View down center of Main Street. On the left is the Hotel Lewis, with a columned porch and awnings above the second-story windows. Further down the street ... |
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