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Montgomery Street Bridge Damage

Date: 06 02 1943
Description: Looking west down road towards the bridge. The roadway is damaged in two spots, leaving large gaps. The walls of the bridge are still intact. Traffic barri...
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Oak Street Bridge Collapse

Date: 06 02 1943
Description: View from water of bridge collapsed into the river, with the metal supports half submerged and the brick base crumbling. Dwellings can be seen along the hi...
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Oldest House in Delavan

Date: 1925
Description: Exterior view of the oldest house in Delavan. There are two large trees in the front yard.
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Larson Barn

Date: 1931
Description: An automobile is parked near the Melvin Larson barn in Bayfield County. The large barn has a concrete block foundation, gambrel roof, and three large venti...
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Dairy Calf Demonstration

Date: 06 28 1932
Description: J.C. Nisbet (center), an editor of Hoard's Dairyman magazine, addresses a crowd of men, women and children at the Walworth County 4-H Club Picnic at...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Racer

Date: 1949
Description: Philip Lenhart with his soap box derby car, Silverstreak. Lenhart wears a helmet and a Wisconsin State Journal t-shirt.
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Snow Scene

Date: 03 09 1936
Description: Slightly elevated winter scene with a large group of people digging a car out of the snow with shovels. The car can barely be seen in the center of the cro...
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"Home Guard"

Date: 08 1921
Description: Three men posing standing in front of a log house belonging to the Getto family, all holding guns. A dog is sitting on the ground between two of the men. T...
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"Those Country Days Surely Are It"

Date: 1920
Description: Two men, Fred and Oscar Getto, sitting on the steps of two doors, one on the left and one on the right, of a store owned by Henry Getto. A sign above the t...
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The Getto Family

Date: 1927
Description: Members of the Getto family posing in front of a log house surrounded by flowering trees. The three people sitting in the front row are, left to right: Mar...
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Loraine Garage

Date: 1927
Description: View across street towards the Loraine Garage at 14 N. Fairchild Street. There is a painted sign on the building advertising parking for 50 cents. There ar...
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Playing Roy Rogers

Date: 1951
Description: Three boys are dressed in cowboy hats, gloves, boots, and t-shirts featuring Roy Rogers and his horse Trigger. One boy is holding a toy pistol on the other...
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Findorff Temporary Headquarters After Fire

Date: 1909
Description: Group portrait of men posing in front of a tent set up outdoors as temporary headquarters for Findorff after a fire. Caption reads: "After the destruction ...
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Pine Lake House

Date: 1940
Description: View of George F. Brumder's Pine Lake house, with a screened porch on the far right and enclosed porches left and center. Several of the windows on the upp...
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Living Room

Date: 1925
Description: Two upholstered wicker chairs are flanking a matching table in the northwest corner of the living room of Henriette (Mrs. George) Brumder's summer home at ...
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Dining Sunroom

Date: 1925
Description: Light is pouring through tall windows into the "dining sunroom" of Henriette (Mrs. George) Brumder's summer home at Pine Lake. There is a trellis and folia...
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Back Porch

Date: 1925
Description: A hand pump and dinner bell flank the screen door of a porch at the Henriette (Mrs. George) Brumder summer home at Pine Lake. The walls of the house are st...
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Living Room

Date: 1925
Description: An interior view, looking south, of the living room of Henriette (Mrs. George) Brumder's summer home at Pine Lake. An electric light is hanging from the co...
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Sunroom

Date: 1925
Description: Geraniums and cannas grow in window boxes of the sunroom on the north side of Henriette (Mrs. George) Brumder's summer home at Pine Lake. There is a low ra...

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