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Horse-Drawn Wagon and Men

Date: 1885
Description: View of a street scene featuring people standing on a horse-drawn wagon in the foreground, and a restaurant in the background.
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Baptist Church

Date: 1856
Description: Exterior view of a Baptist church.
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Octagon House

Date: 1948
Description: Exterior view of the Octagon House.
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Zona Gale House

Date: 1940
Description: View from the Wisconsin River of the house at 506 W. Edgewater Street, built by Zona Gale in 1906 for her parents after the successful publication of her f...
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Pewaukee Lake Mills

Date: 1925
Description: View of Pewaukee Lake Mills. Asa Clark, a Vermont pioneer who settled in the town of Pewaukee in 1837, erected a sawmill in 1838 at the outlet of the lake....
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Libby Prison

Date: 1863
Description: A heavily retouched photographic view of Libby Prison. This view shows tents and three tenement (loft style) buildings.
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Childhood Farm Home of Sherwin Gillett

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Description: View of a small wooden dwelling with snow in the yard.
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Camp 2

Date: 1912
Description: Probably a view of a ranger camp house. There is a ladder propped outside at the front, and there is a broken window with temporary board repairs. Two men ...
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Parkway Theatre and City Hall

Date: 1953
Description: Exterior view from sidewalk of City Hall, located at the intersection of West Mifflin Street and Wisconsin Avenue. The Parkway Theatre, featuring the films...
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Two Friends of Jeannette Holt

Date: 1919
Description: Page caption reads: "Eleanor Nelson, Florence Caldwell, Katherine Magill." It is not clear which two of these women are posing together.
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Wisconsin Pioneers on Board the St. Mihiel

Date: 1935
Description: Elevated view of men, women and children ready to disembark ship. Original caption reads: "Determination to make good is written on the faces of the Wiscon...
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Two Boys Carrying Water

Date: 1935
Description: One of a group of images under the headline: "Matanuska Valley Colonists Wait for Mail, Carry Water, Haul Logs." Original caption reads: "You can't get wat...
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Matanuska Valley Colonists

Date: 05 1935
Description: One of a group of images under the headline: "Matanuska Valley Colonists Wait for Mail, Carry Water, Haul Logs." Original caption reads: "Intimate view of ...
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Group of Children at Sunday School

Date: 1935
Description: One of two images under the headline: "How Children Keep Busy in Alaskan Tent Colony." Original caption reads: "How do the children live in the Wisconsin-M...

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