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Photograph

Planting Muskmelon Plants

Date: 05 24 1979
Description: Lyle Lurvey and Mrs. Lurvey on a tractor planting muskmelon on their farm near Highway 67, south of Dousman.
Photograph

Heg Farm

Date: 1920
Description: Heg Farm. The home was built by the Hegs after their immigration from Lier, Norway in 1840 and before the Civil War. The barn was built by Even H. Heg in 1...
Photograph

Norwegian Church

Date: 1949
Description: Norwegian church. Interior view of old log church, the first church built by Norwegians in America in 1843.
Photograph

Skofstad Cabin

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior side view of Skofstad cabin, possibly the oldest building in the settlement. An early pastor of a Norwegian Lutheran Church, Reverend Stub, lived ...
Photograph

Nashotah House Library

Date: 1940
Description: Interior view of Nashotah House library.
Drawing

Nashotah Mission

Date: 1876
Description: Distant view of Neshotah Mission. River with boaters, two people standing on riverbank, mission on hill in background.
Postcard

Nashotah Mission Bell Tower

Date: 1915
Description: Nashotah Mission bell tower. Caption reads: "Bell Tower, Nashotah Mission."
Postcard

Nashotah Mission, Cloister

Date: 1915
Description: Nashotah Mission, cloister about 1915-20(?) Four people are gathered in the entrance. Caption reads: "Cloister, Nashotah Mission."
Photograph

Nashotah Mission, Blue House, Red House

Date: 1920
Description: Nashotah Mission, Blue House and Red House. The Blue House (right) was the first building of the mission, built in 1842. The Red House was built in 1843 fo...
Photograph

View of Town

Date: 1850
Description: Body of water body in foreground with boaters, buildings on shore in background.
Photograph

Townsend House

Date: 1870
Description: Townsend House and grounds with elaborate birdhouse in foreground.
Photograph

Townsend House

Date: 1880
Description: Stereograph of the Townsend House, a resort hotel. In the foreground there are three people in a rowboat, rowing under a bridge where four other people are...
Photograph

La Belle Lake

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph from east side of La Belle Lake.
Photograph

Okauchee House

Date: 1936
Description: Okauchee House main entrance detail. Printed on plaque: "880".
Photograph

Dr. David Roberts Badger Balm

Date: 08 10 1954
Description: Studio photograph of Dr. David Roberts Badger Balm. Dr. Roberts (1866-1951) was a Waukesha veterinarian. In 1904, he incorporated the Dr. David Robert's V...
Photograph

Dr. David Roberts Ratu-Bait

Date: 08 10 1954
Description: Studio photograph of a one-pound can of Dr. David Roberts Ratu-Bait containing Warfarin. The active ingredient is an anti-coagulate which prevents a block ...
Photograph

Nellie I. Gill

Date: 1923
Description: Portrait of Nellie Irene Gill, at the time she was employed as a teacher.

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