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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Long row of men in suits and hats fishing on the breakwater. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Refueling a Ford Tri-Motor airplane. Because gasoline truck hoses did not have pumps, airplanes were refueled by filling 5-gallon cans and then lifting the... |
| Date: | 05 18 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of wreck of a Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad freight train. The derailment is so severe that the train station has been knocked off... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Men building a culvert on the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Westerm railway. In the background both horses and oxen teams are being used. |
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| Description: | The "Chippewa," one of the Milwaukee Road's high speed Hiawatha locomotives at the Union Station. The station clock tower can be seen in the background. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View of the original Hotel Chequamegon, built by the Wisconsin Central Railroad interests and opened in 1877. It was built of wood with a wrap around porch... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Single-story house with a wrap-around porch and a yard. There is a larger building on the right, and a hill is in the background. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Cedar Island on Brule River, a nationally known speckle trout stream. The island has native towering white pine and bubbling clear springs. These are some ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the residence of Casper Hansen, built in 1858. The home has a white picket fence, and a group of people are posing behind the fen... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | View of three women standing in the foreground looking at the front of the Captain John Cotton house. Also known as "Beaupre", this Greek Revival style hou... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a lodge, probably on Rock Island in Door County. Two men pose in front of the building. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | The Waelderhaus, a memorial planned for John Michael Kohler. Waelderhaus is a replica of his family's home in Austria. An Austrian architect was brought ov... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, with several children and adults outside of its entrance. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the downtown area looking northeast from the courthouse corner. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Non-commissioned officers of Company C of the 2nd Wisconsin. From left to right they are W.S. Rouse, R. Ash, G.E. Smith, N.H. Whittemore, O.F. Crary, and J... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | A straw lead furnace, an open hearth furnace where lead sulphite (Galena) was roasted. Located on the Rountree branch of the Little Platte River, Richard S... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Church built by early settlers in the village of New Upsala, the first Swedish settlement in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Cistercian Abbey of Cistercian Fathers, Our Lady of Spring Bank in winter. Formerly a resort hotel on Oconomowoc Lake, called Spring Bank. |
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