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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Map of Dane County rural delivery in Madison and the town of Westport. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Cochrane and the surrounding landscape. There are houses, railroad tracks, distant fields, a pond and some irrigation canals. Caption read... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a pond, a stream, and a lake, with a road dividing the pond and stream from the lake. Industrial buildings and a smokestack are in the bac... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of Holy Hill, with a field and the Hillside Hotel in the foreground. Captions read: "America's Favorite Place of Pilgrimage" and "The Holy Hill and Hi... |
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| Description: | Advertisement in Norwegian for land in Grand Falls, Ward County, Texas. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Black Hawk Tree, Prairie du Chien, Wis." The tree is in the center of an unpaved road. It was rumored that Chief Black Hawk hid within this... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Cover of a 31-page pamphlet promoting Wisconsin to German immigrants, which translates to read "Wisconsin. An Account of the Population, soil, climate, Com... |
| Date: | 02 1910 |
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| Description: | Farmer and two cows standing outside near a barn in winter. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with the image of a bell. Inside is a scene of a lake with a cottage on the shore. There is a boat on the lake and a church on the opposite sh... |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of the horseshoe curve of railroad tracks. Elevated view of the railroad tracks with train snaking past a farmhouse and a bridge suspend... |
| Date: | 08 1893 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of those who attended the 6th annual Cranberry Convention at Bennett Marsh. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Baldwin & Killen Lands and W.H. Killen & Company, dealers of farm, lumber, and mineral lands, from Appleton, Wisconsin, with an image on the ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | This map shows in different colors virgin timberland, second growth timber, pasture belt, crop-pasture belt, intensive crop-pasture belt, intensive pasture... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | This map shows "regional designation problem areas" and "nature of problem or solution." The left margin has a key showing the problem areas. The right mar... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Rural Route No. 3 in Bonduel, Wisconsin, with a man driving a U.S. R.F.D. mail wagon along a road by a fenced yard, a barn, and a mailbox. Pr... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Rural Route No. 3 in Fall Creek, Wisconsin, with a woman in front of a house retrieving mail from a mailbox and a horse-drawn U.S. R.F.D. ma... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Post Office in Arkansaw, Wisconsin, with a uniformed man on horseback blowing a trumpet with a U.S. Mail banner streaming out of it. The ... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Cross Country, Hop Flavored, Malt Syrup, Made and packed by, Rock Island Brewing Co.... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Hoard's Dairyman, the "national dairy farm magazine" published by former governor and proponent of the Wisconsin dairy industry, William Demp... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Pioneer Lager Beer, Bottled by De Pere Brewing Corp." The label is divided into tria... |
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