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Filter: Creator Name of Cole, Harry Elsworth, 1861-1928
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Court House Park from Dr. Snyder's window. Pedestrians are on the sidewalk. A monument is in the park on the right. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Three men are working outside on the street in front of the Dodgeville Hotel. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the White House Inn, a three-story wooden structure with a two-story wing in the rear. A road sign for Highway 23 is in the foreground on the c... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | An early two-story frame house with a lean-to addition on the rear. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View from road of a two-story brick structure identified as the Melchior Hotel. See also image 67069. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across street of a young boy in overalls crossing the street in front of a large frame commercial building with windows and awnings, possibly a hotel.... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | This view of the Token Creek Tavern (Field's Inn) was created from a tintype (circa 1870) by E.E. Lawrence. A crowd has gathered on the porch and balcony o... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | This two-story wooden structure was originally the house of LaFayette Hill (1812-1853), a member of Wisconsin's first Constitutional Convention and settler... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A woman on horseback poses with another horse in front of the three-story Western Inn as people look on from the porches. There is a large belvedere on th... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A man stands near the wooden steps of the Wisconsin House, a wood frame building with a large brick wing. There is snow on the ground and on the roof. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Men stand on the street level porch and women on the second floor wrap-around balcony of the Alba House. A sign on the railing advertises a harness shop. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A deteriorating wooden structure with two gables on the front, identified as the Red Tavern between Kilbourn and Mauston, built in 1848. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Men with horses and buggies pose in front of a three-story wooden building identified as the Angier House by a sign painted on the clapboards. Women look o... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | An old commercial structure identified as the Twin Island House. There are feed sacks on the porch and a Coca-Cola sign on the front of the building. This... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A worn, painted wooden sign reads: "Temperance House by J. Child 1852." It was "at Lima Center, the first house south of the cemetery on the main road bet... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A painted wooden sign which reads "Hotel by T.B. Petford." |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a small town with a river and bridge in the foreground. High water has washed away the road and river bank at the far end of the bridge. T... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Herman Rafoth, smoking a pipe, stands behind a two-story wooden house. Rafoth was the driver of a stage held up by Raymond Holzse on May 8, 1880. A woman... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A copy of a waist-up portrait of Raymond Holzse. Holzse was described as a "bandit of northern Wisconsin, who planned several stage holdups." |
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