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Behrend Veerhusen's Farm

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Description: Stone barn with scalloped edging with people in wagons and house in background, picket fencing; in sec. 26, SE1/4. Biography in Biographical Review of Dane...
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People Posed in front of G. Bashford Home

Date: 1878
Description: Two women and a man posed in the garden path of an L-shaped Greek Revival frame house. The front and back doors are open, revealing a breezeway straight th...
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox School

Date: 1929
Description: The Ella Wheeler Wilcox School.
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YMCA Camp Wakanda Campers

Date: 06 25 1945
Description: Six young archers at YMCA Camp Wakanda. Left to right: Lowell Hugo, John Stuhlldreher, James Treadwell, Walker Johnson, Tommy Bergmann and John Lonergan.
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Westport Bridge

Date: 08 07 1945
Description: State Highway 113 bridge over the Yahara River in Westport. The photograph is taken from the north end of the bridge showing the "blind" curve on the immed...
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Westport Bridge with Road Signs

Date: 08 07 1945
Description: State Highway 113 bridge over the Yahara River in Westport, with two automobiles and road signs that read: "County Highway M, Middleton 7 miles"; "State Hi...
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Airplane Crash in Lake Mendota

Date: 07 18 1944
Description: Dozens of boys at Camp Wakanda on the north shore of Lake Mendota watch rescue work on an airplane which has crashed into the lake near shore. Tom Langloi...
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Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross

Date: 11 01 1948
Description: Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross serving tea to two unidentified patients at the Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Left to right are: Mrs. H. ...
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Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross

Date: 11 01 1948
Description: Mrs. J.H. Svendsen, a volunteer Gray Lady of the Dane County Red Cross, shown tending patient's plants in the greenhouse at the Mendota hopsital for the me...
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Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross

Date: 11 01 1948
Description: Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross reading outdoors to patients of the Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Shown standing, at left, is Mrs. Willia...
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St. Mary's of the Lake Catholic Church

Date: 11 21 1948
Description: Exterior view of St. Mary's of the Lake Catholic Church.
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New Housing Development

Date: 07 03 1960
Description: View down curving sidewalk of new housing development with a main street of dirt, and box-like, one-story homes.
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Catholic Church Ground Breaking

Date: 05 24 1953
Description: Ground breaking ceremonies at the site of St. Mary of the Lake Catholic Church to replace the church that was destroyed by fire in 1951. The Reverend Edwar...
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Catholic Bishop Open House

Date: 06 11 1957
Description: Three women who will preside at serving tables for the open house of Bishop William P. O'Connor's residence are looking over the pleasant gardens behind th...
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Press Club Picnic

Date: 07 25 1957
Description: A plaque bearing the title "Bohemian Brigade" was presented to Karl H. Fauerbach for his support of the Press Club at a picnic on the grounds of the Fauerb...
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Convent Groundbreaking at Academy of St. Benedict

Date: 08 15 1960
Description: Mother Monica, superior of the convent and academy, turns over the first spadeful of ground during the groundbreaking ceremonies for a new motherhouse conv...
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St. Benedict Priory

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Description: Exterior view of the St. Benedict Priory at Fox Bluff.
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City Hall Outing

Date: 07 11 1954
Description: City Hall Outing hostess, Alderwoman Ethel Brown (left) is shown laying out a picnic meal with help from Mrs. Norman Moll and Mrs. Lawrence McCormick. The ...
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City Hall Outing

Date: 07 14 1954
Description: City Clerk A.W. Barels (left), City Attorney Harold Hanson, and Alderman Norman Moll are shown singing at Alderwoman Ethel Brown's picnic.
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City Hall Outing

Date: 07 14 1954
Description: Alderman George Reger and Mayor George Forster (right) loading up their plates at the outing. Mayor Foster is dishing up food that is sitting behind an ena...

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