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Mound and Barn

Date: 
Description: View of large platform mound with small barn in the foreground. The numbers 1, 2, and 3 are written on the photograph in ink.
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1915
Description: Unpaved Main Street with many storefronts and a hotel on the right hand side. Pedestrians are on the sidewalks. Caption reads: "Main Street, Arcadia, Wis".
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E.M. Maurer Bookstore

Date: 1885
Description: A man is posing in front of the corner entrance to the E.M. Maurer Bookstore. Above the corner entrance is a turret, and a small child is looking out of on...
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Depot and Mineral Springs Hotel

Date: 1875
Description: View across unpaved road towards a group of men standing on the platform at the train depot, with the Mineral Springs Hotel behind and to the right. Anothe...
Postcard

Flood Conditions

Date: 03 16 1919
Description: View showing the flood conditions on city streets from the 1919 Flood on the Trempealeau River. Four men are surveying the damage. Caption reads: "Highwate...
Postcard

Gilbert Street

Date: 1890
Description: View down Gilbert Street, looking north. Caption reads: "Gilbert Street Looking North Blair Wis."
Postcard

Trempealeau River

Date: 1890
Description: Trempealeau River and its banks, with a building and bridge in the background. Caption reads: "Trempealeau River Scene, Blair, Wis."
Photograph

Marynook Novitiate

Date: 1940
Description: View across grounds, with trees and shrubs on the lawn, towards the Main building and dormitory with ivy on the corner.
Photograph

Court House

Date: 1920
Description: Elevated view of Whitehall from the Court House. A church is in the right foreground, and hills are in the distance. Caption at bottom reads: "Scene from C...
Photograph

Court House

Date: 
Description: The Court House in Whitehall. Caption reads: "Court House, Whitehall, Wis."
Photograph

A Whitehall Street

Date: 1895
Description: Looking down one of Whitehall's streets with horses, carriages, men and stores. A wagon is unloading tobacco. Caption at bottom reads: "Delivering Tobacco ...
Photograph

Trempealeau

Date: 1920
Description: View down center of tree-lined road in Trempealeau. Commercial buildings are in the distance.
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Wisconsin Highway Sign

Date: 1925
Description: Wisconsin State Highway sign along STH 11 near Galesville, one of a whole new vocabulary of signage created for automobile traffic. The inverted triangle w...
Photograph

Independence Opera House

Date: 2009
Description: View of stage and main floor of Independence Opera House from rear.
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Independence Opera House

Date: 2009
Description: View of Independence Opera House, city hall, clock tower and public library building from across the street.
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Independence Opera House

Date: 2009
Description: View of Independence Opera House auditorium and stage from balcony.
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Independence Opera House

Date: 2009
Description: Exterior view of Public Library entrance in the Independence Opera House building.
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Independence Opera House

Date: 2009
Description: Exterior view of Independence Opera House's rear loading doors including pulley.
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Independence Opera House

Date: 2009
Description: Backstage graffiti at the Independent Opera House naming participants in plays performed in 1936 and 1937.
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Independence Opera House

Date: 2009
Description: Close-up of replicated stencil work and molding in Independence Opera House auditorium.

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