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Water Avenue Fire

Date: 12 31 1990
Description: Firefighters battle a fire that engulfed Kruk's Drug Store and Hansen's Department Store. The pharmacy was to change ownership the next day.
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Water Avenue Fire

Date: 12 31 1990
Description: Firefighters battle a fire that engulfed Kruk's Drug Store and Hansen's Department Store. The pharmacy was to change ownership the next day.
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Downtown Automobile Race

Date: 07 04 1911
Description: Elevated view looking towards sidewalk and street of a crowd looking at automobiles lined up for a downtown race. According to Alan Picha of the Hillsboro ...
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Hillsboro Mill

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Description: View from dirt road of a group of people (possibly employees) standing around the loading dock of the Hillsboro Mill. There is a steep, snow-covered hill i...
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Warner Creek Cheese Billboard

Date: 1986
Description: Warner Creek Cheese billboard, including a 3D sculpture of a mouse with cheese, in front of a small, brick building. Located off the State Highway near Hil...
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Lakeside Mink Ranch

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Description: Aerial view of the Lakeside Mink Ranch, operated by Robert "Bud" Quinn. Spreading over 15 acres, the Ranch was one of the first operations to breed mink in...
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Mitscher in Parade

Date: 07 12 1945
Description: Elevated view of Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher's car in a parade held in his honor. Hillsboro planned the celebration to commemorate the first time in ten yea...
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Mitscher Returns Home

Date: 07 1945
Description: Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher stands with suitcases in hand upon his arrival in Hillsboro. It was the first time in ten years that the military commander had ...
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Hillsboro Trolley

Date: 1911
Description: Composite photograph of a trolley traversing Hillsboro's Main Street. Hillsboro did not actually have a streetcar; the image of the trolley was taken from ...
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Rudy Lein

Date: 1943
Description: Rudy Lein, owner of the Standard Oil Gas Station, standing next to an air pump outside of the station. He wears a Standard Service cap and a bowtie. Behind...
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Perfect Oil Gas Station

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Description: View across street towards group of men standing on the sidewalk in front of the Perfect Oil Corporation in front of a Mobiloil truck. They are the station...
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Toots Station

Date: 1940
Description: Toots Sullivan (on left) and Emil Picha stand in front of the exterior of the Toot's Standard Gas Station at the intersection of Mill Street and Prairie Av...
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Hillsboro Railroad Pass

Date: 1903
Description: Railroad pass for the Hillsboro and North Eastern Railroad. A short track spanning from Hillsboro to Union Center, the Railroad was in operation from 1903 ...
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Hillsboro Railroad Tracks and Depot Damaged by Wash Out

Date: 07 22 1907
Description: Caption on bottom right reads: "Wash Out on H.&N.E RY. July 22, 07." View down three sets of damaged railroad tracks towards men standing near a passenger ...
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Hillsboro Railroad

Date: 1908
Description: View down railroad tracks towards a locomotive at the Hillsboro Train Depot. The Hillsboro and Northeastern Railroad was built in 1903 and was a short trac...
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Flood Damage

Date: 08 06 1935
Description: Caption at bottom reads: "Destruction of H&N.E. RY Yards." Women in white dresses walk among the puddles along the flood-damaged tracks and trains of the H...
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Downtown Hillsboro

Date: 1908
Description: View across unpaved street of people, horses and wagons, and businesses on one side of Water Avenue, the heart of Hillsboro's downtown and business distric...
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Hillsboro Canning Plant

Date: 1959
Description: An official and workmen at Hillsboro Canning Plant examining a a large truckload of corn as it's dumped into a huge unloading platform. The individuals pic...
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Santa Claus in Downtown Hillsboro

Date: 1955
Description: A man dressed as Santa Claus leans down from an open car to hand sacks of candy to a crowd of warmly-dressed children and parents. Santa's visit took place...
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Elevated View of Chaseburg

Date: 1922
Description: Elevated view of Chaseburg and the surrounding landscape, with a river and bluffs in the background. Caption reads: "Chaseburg, Wis."

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