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An Ancient Land-mark

Date: 1895
Description: Stereograph of an old log structure surrounded by buildings, wagons and wagon parts, fences and trees. It was demolished about 1900. Text printed on the fr...
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Birds Eye View [sic]

Date: 1910
Description: Slightly elevated view of a town, looking down from a hill across a field, with railroad tracks curving from the right foreground to the left towards the t...
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Leon Town Hall

Date: 01 02 1962
Description: Leon Town Hall at 20490 Wisconsin Highway 27, next to a house in Monroe County, in the winter with snow on the ground.
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Emmanuel Church Evangelic Association

Date: 1915
Description: Text on front reads: "Emmanuel Church Evangelic Association, Norwalk, Wis." A large church building with two towers and two circular stained glass windows....
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County Road

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "County Road, Near Sparta, Wis." Elevated view of a group of people standing on an unpaved county road that runs through a cut in a hi...
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Water Street, Looking North

Date: 08 09 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "Water Street, Looking North, Sparta, Wis." Unpaved street with sidewalks lined with businesses. Signs read, "Monroe County Bank," "Dr...
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Hotel Sydney

Date: 1942
Description: Text on front reads: "Hotel Sydney - Sparta, Wis. European - Modern - Dining Room." View from intersection of a two-story hotel with three-story towers on ...
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Masonic Temple

Date: 1923
Description: Text on front reads: "Masonic Temple - Sparta, Wis." This Neoclassical building was built in 1923 and faced with tapestry cream brick. In front is a signpo...
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Burnstadt's European Village and Cafe

Date: 1974
Description: Text on front reads: "Burnstadt's European Village and Cafe, Tomah, Wisconsin." On reverse: "Burnstadt's European Village and Cafe. The warmth of European ...
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Indian School

Date: 09 04 1928
Description: Text on front reads: "Indian School, Tomah, Wis." Opened in 1893, the Tomah Indian Industrial School was intended to teach Indian children how to shed thei...
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Scene in Tomah

Date: 06 10 1912
Description: Text on front reads: "Scene in Tomah, Wisconsin." A man is standing with his team of horses at a public drinking fountain on Superior Avenue, a wide unpave...
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Drinking Fountain, Superior Avenue

Date: 06 01 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "Drinking Fountain, Superior Ave., Tomah, Wis." A public drinking fountain on Superior Avenue, a wide unpaved boulevard. Horse-drawn v...
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Maid of the Mist

Date: 06 03 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "Maid of the Mist, Gillett Park, Tomah, Wis." A stone fountain with a statue of a woman in the center, holding a water vessel on her s...
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Spring Bank

Date: 06 28 1917
Description: Text on front reads: "Spring Bank, Near Tomah." Three women and a man stand on a wooden suspension bridge over a pond on Sparta Creek. One woman is holding...
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Indian School

Date: 06 22 1942
Description: Text on front reads: "U.S. Indian School, Tomah Wis." Opened in 1893, the Tomah Indian Industrial School was intended to teach Indian children how to shed ...
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L.A. Rowland's Resort

Date: 09 05 1908
Description: Text on front reads: "L.A. Rowland's Res., Tomah, Wis." A large clapboard lodge with striped awnings and a decorative wooden fence. A sidewalk, lawn and tr...
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Hilger's at the Stoplight

Date: 1975
Description: Text on front reads: "Hilger's at the Stoplight, Tomah, Wis." Rubber stamped on the reverse: "Hilger's Pop Corn Wagon. At the Stop & Go Light, Tomah, Wisco...
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Souvenir of Tomah

Date: 1904
Description: Text on reverse reads: "Multiple View Card, Souvenir of Tomah." The smaller images, which flip when the card on top is pulled, include: Congregational Chur...
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First Baptist Church

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "First Baptist Church, Warrens, Wis." A clapboard church built in the Queen Anne style with ornate stained glass window, belfry and tr...

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