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Threshing Scene

Date: 1905
Description: View across field of threshing scene, with steam-powered threshing machine and horse-drawn wagons. A large group of workers pose with men in suits. On the ...
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Platteville Coon Dog Race

Date: 07 02 1944
Description: Coon dogs starting race with handlers and spectators in background.
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Platteville Coon Dog Event

Date: 07 02 1944
Description: Coon dogs treeing a raccoon with handler and spectators observing. Sign on spectators' fence says: "Elect Taylor G. Brown, Republican Candidate for Lieuten...
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Nelson Dewey State Park

Date: 1958
Description: Nelson Dewey State Park (Cassville vicinity). Bridge construction near the park office which was built in the 1850s as a chicken house. The park was establ...
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People on Street

Date: 1906
Description: View down unpaved street with snow along the curbs. The Post office is the first building on the left. Other buildings are occupied by a doctor's office, s...
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McCarthy in Wisconsin

Date: 09 15 1951
Description: Senator Joseph R. McCarthy greets admirers at a Dairy Day event in Platteville.
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Wisconsin Listens to McCarthy

Date: 09 15 1951
Description: At a Wisconsin Dairy Day event, the photographer turned the camera from the speaker, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, to the large audience gathered to listen t...
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Aerial View of Cuba City Cannery

Date: 10 12 1947
Description: Aerial view of Cuba City Cannery.
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CCC Camp Scene

Date: 1938
Description: Elevated view of Civil Conservation Camp (CCC), tentatively identified as the Bloomington camp.
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Old Soldiers' Reunion

Date: 1927
Description: Old Soldiers' Reunion on the public square.
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Nelson Dewey Barn

Date: 08 26 1956
Description: Part of a crowd of over 3000 that toured Stonefield, the Historical Society's site at Cassville, during an open house. The building that housed the State ...
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Nelson Dewey Farm

Date: 1900
Description: Nelson Dewey farm, showing the house built on the site after Dewey's death. The original house built by Dewey burned in 1873.
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Cassville Campgrounds

Date: 1905
Description: Children and adults at picnic campground owned by Gus Klindt near Cassville.
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Nelson Dewey Barn

Date: 1905
Description: Exterior of barn built by Nelson Dewey at Cassville, seen in about 1905 when the property was owned by T.J. Bunn. The building is now the State Farm Museu...
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Nelson Dewey Wine Cellar

Date: 1905
Description: Wine cellar on the Nelson Dewey estate before it was remodeled.
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Aerial View of Platteville

Date: 02 17 1949
Description: One of five aerial views of Platteville and surrounding countryside covered in snow.
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Aerial Views of Platteville

Date: 02 17 1949
Description: One of five aerial views of Platteville and surrounding countryside covered in snow.
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Aerial Photographs of Boscobel

Date: 03 28 1949
Description: Aerial photographs of Boscobel, Wisconsin.
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Howe / Baxter House

Date: 08 04 1949
Description: The Howe/Baxter House in Lancaster, owned by Mrs. and Mrs. W.C. Cartwright of Lancaster. One wing was built during Civil War days for the Howe family. The...
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Gov. Nelson Dewey Estate - Stonefield

Date: 08 04 1949
Description: People are sitting on a bench and standing on the lawn surrounding the summer house on Governor Dewey's estate, called Stonefield.

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