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Northwestern Naval and Military Acadamy

Date: 1925
Description: View across grounds towards the Northwestern Naval and Military Acadamy.
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Faville Homestead

Date: 1885
Description: The Faville home, built about 1850 on 120 acres bought from the government in 1844. As late as 1922 the home was still in the Faville family. The additions...
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Dunn Residence

Date: 1905
Description: The home of Justice Charles Dunn. In 1906 it was the farmhouse of Chris Cerdt.
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Exterior of Post Office

Date: 1930
Description: View of post office. There is a wire fence in the foreground.
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Elevated View of Union Center

Date: 1908
Description: Elevated view of Union Center.
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Ludlow Hotel

Date: 1955
Description: The Ludlow Hotel, built by Arabut Ludlow and razed in 1955.
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Barlow Chalet of the Golden Fleece

Date: 1940
Description: Barlow "Chalet of the Golden Fleece," New Glarus, Wisconsin. Built as a home by Edwin Barlow, it was later given to the town for use as a museum of Swiss m...
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Dad's Bar

Date: 1940
Description: Customers standing outside the small bar are probably waiting to take the ferry across the river.
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Pearl Street

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Description: View of Pearl Street includes a horse-drawn carriage, a bank, other commercial buildings, and a man standing on the street corner. Caption reads: "Pearl St...
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Main Street

Date: 1929
Description: View looking down sidewalk on the left of Main Street. A sign in the foreground reads: "Iowa Oil Co."
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Pewaukee Lake Mills

Date: 1925
Description: A 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 lak...
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Norwegian Lutheran Church

Date: 09 11 1927
Description: A view of the Norwegian Lutheran Cemetery on the site of the Norwegian Lutheran Church, founded in 1852.
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Men with Bottles and Gun

Date: 1924
Description: Two men standing in front of two cars, one pointing a handgun at the ground and the other looking at the camera. Each man is holding a bottle, possibly ful...
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Confederate Rest Cemetery

Date: 1898
Description: "Confederate Rest" in Forest Hill Cemetery where Confederate prisoners of war who died at Camp Randall are buried. In this early photograph, there is a woo...
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View Across the Tennessee River

Date: 1864
Description: View across the Tennessee River toward the city and Cameron Hill, showing the military bridge and some Union Army installations put up following the occupa...
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Crates of Cranberries

Date: 1931
Description: A wagon and crates full of cranberries sitting in the shade in a field. A group of people harvesting cranberries are in the background.
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Dry Cranberry Picking

Date: 1931
Description: Men and boys harvesting cranberries, using a dry method of picking. The field has been laid out in sections to aid in the harvest.
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Falls of St. Anthony

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Description: View across Saint Anthony Falls with St. Paul in the background.
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Group at Lake Geneva

Date: 1918
Description: Group of men and women seated in the grass at the side of a road. One man wears a sailor's uniform. Automobiles are parked along the road in the background...
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Toy Barn

Date: 1905
Description: The three Fargo children, from left, Stuart, Frank Jr. and Dorothy are posing with a toy barn made of wooden boxes. Dorothy is reading a magazine. There is...

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