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Greetings from Wautoma

Date: 1970
Description: View of businesses in the Main Street area of Wautoma. Some storefronts featured are, on the right, Ellickson Agency, Sunny Side Food Store, a bar, a mens'...
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Andrew Dahl's Children

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Description: Andrew Dahl's children, Lars, Theodor, and Bertha.
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Waushara County Court House

Date: 1905
Description: Waushara County Court House. There is a statue in the foreground and homes in the background. Caption reads: "Waushara County Court House, Wautoma, Wis."
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Waushara County Court House

Date: 1905
Description: View towards the court house. A man is standing on the right near the sidewalk. Caption reads: "Court House, Wautoma, Wis."
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Main Street

Date: 1970
Description: View down center of unpaved street looking west. Captions read: "Wautoma, Wis." and "Main Street Looking West".
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Wautoma High School

Date: 1905
Description: Exterior view of the Wautoma High School. Caption reads: "High School, Wautoma, Wis."
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Fire Department

Date: 1967
Description: The Wautoma Fire Station.
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Oxford Street

Date: 1967
Description: Traffic on Oxford Street (State Highway 21&73), with a parking meter in the foreground and old storefronts in the distance.
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Northwestern Street

Date: 1967
Description: Northwestern Street intersection in Wautoma, with the old railroad depot in the background and a parking lot in the foreground.
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Boothville Quick Stop

Date: 1940
Description: Mobil gas station constructed of split stone. Next door, offering ice cream, soda pop, and groceries to motorists near Silver Lake, was the Boothville groc...
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Cucumber Cultivation

Date: 1967
Description: Ground-level view of workers cultivating a cucumber field with hand tools.

Cultivación de pepinos

Vista desde el suelo de unos trabajadore...
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Cucumber Field Cultivation

Date: 1967
Description: Ground-level view of a double row of workers cultivating a cucumber field with hoes.

Cultivando pepino

Vista desde el suelo de una línea ...
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Teatro Campesino Acto

Date: 1967
Description: Teatro Campesino acto or skit dramatizing the experiences of Hispanic workers in America. Four actors stand together in costume with signs around their nec...
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Wautoma-Dakota Dump

Date: 1967
Description: Dump where discarded mattresses were resold to growers for migrant laborer camp use. A sign identifying the dump and its hours stands behind a barbed wire ...
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Waushara County Clerk Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Waushara County Clerk's office, with a three-quarter view of the county courthouse, a fence in front of the building, and a partial frame...
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Grape Boycott Picketing

Date: 1968
Description: On the left, Ernesto Chacon, is in sunglasses and holding a sign that says, "Don't Buy Grapes," picketing for the United Farmworkers/AFL-CIO grape boycott....
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Wautoma Teens Counter-Picketing Grape Boycott

Date: 1969
Description: Four young men sitting in front of a grocery store. The young man on the left is sitting beside a crate of corn, wearing sunglasses and holding a bag of gr...
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United Workers March to Madison

Date: 1966
Description: An Obreros Unidos (United Workers) member holding a sign, possibly like those in the background, that says "Juntarnos Para Ser Reconocidos/Hablar Para Ser ...
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Green Bay Food Company Camp

Date: 1966
Description: Buildings along an unpaved road served as a camp for migrant farm workers working for the Green Bay Food Company.

In 1946, more than 4,000 farmworkers fr...

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Grape Boycott Picket

Date: 1968
Description: Francisco Rodriguez of Crystal City, Texas is picketing a Wautoma grocery store during the grape boycott in 1968. Grape boycotts in Wisconsin were organize...

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