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Still Rock Spa

Date: 1910
Description: Exterior view of the Still Rock Spa with a group of people gathered on its front porch. Caption reads: "Still Rock Spa, Waukesha, Wis."
Photograph

Park Hotel

Date: 1910
Description: Park Hotel from a clipping taken from the Park Falls Herald of April 5, 1962. The caption reads: "Park Hotel was a landmark in the early days of Park Falls...
Photograph

Group in Automobile

Date: 1912
Description: A group of men, women, and children pose for a portrait while seated in an automobile.
Postcard

Quantrell's Band

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Description: A group portrait of former members of "Quantrell's Band" at a reunion.
Print

Neverland, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

Date: 1965
Description: Holiday card with a drawing of a vacation home on the front, and a picture of the family in front of their Volkswagen bus on the inside. The family has a C...
Print

Merry Christmas the Q.J. O'Sullivans

Date: 1953
Description: Photographic holiday card from the Q.J. O'Sullivan family. The children of the family are outdoors and are all dressed in winter clothes. Two of the childr...
Postcard

Moore's Lakeside Resort on Brown's Lake

Date: 07 18 1915
Description: Black and white postcard of Moore's Lakeside Resort on Brown's Lake. Staff and/or visitors are posing on the front porch and on the lawn. The wrap-around b...
Photograph

Cranberry Convention at Bennett Marsh

Date: 08 1893
Description: Group portrait of those who attended the 6th annual Cranberry Convention at Bennett Marsh.
Photograph

Field of Potatoes on the Farm of Oswald Scheller

Date: 09 04 1895
Description: A promotional card depicting Oswald Scheller and his family on their farm in northern Wisconsin.

The caption below the image reads: "Field of potatoes on...

Photograph

Farm of Chris Klein near Phillips, Price County

Date: 1895
Description: The front (top) and back (bottom) of a promotional card created to attract farmers to the agricultural land in northern Wisconsin. The card features an ima...
Photograph

The Hay Crop

Date: 1895
Description: A promotional card advertising the large amounts of hay that can be growth in northern Wisconsin. The image shows three men posing on and beside a wagon ca...
Photograph

Temporary Quarters for New Comers From Indiana

Date: 1895
Description: A promotional card advertising farming land in northern Wisconsin. The image depicts four settler men, their two horses, and their dog outside a temporary ...
Map or Atlas

Area School Districts of Middleton

Date: 1911
Description: "Standard Historical Atlas of Dane County, Wisconsin." Top half of page 98, showing all of the different district schools in Middleton.
Postcard

Logging

Date: 1908
Description: Colorized postcard of loggers posing with logs piled on horse-drawn sleds. Caption reads: "Logging, Athens, Wis."
Postcard

Public School

Date: 1909
Description: Exterior view of a school. Students and teachers are gathered in front. Caption reads: "Public School, Black Creek, Wis."
Photograph

Group Portrait at Waterfall

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Description: Group portrait of people picnicking on the shoreline of a river. In the background is an unidentified waterfall, with tree limbs and branches stuck in the ...
Photograph

Group of Women Canvassers of the Oscar Mayer Company

Date: 10 19 1940
Description: Group portrait of a group of Oscar Mayer canvassers posing in front of the Camp Randall Memorial Arch. They are all wearing uniforms and holding baskets of...
Postcard

Group Portrait of People Standing on a Pier

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Description: View across water towards a group of people, men, woman, and young girls and boys, posing on a pier in front of a building on the shoreline of Sister Bay. ...
Postcard

Burning German Materials in Galesville

Date: 11 11 1918
Description: Crowd of men and young boys gathered around a smoldering pile of ash and scraps in the Galesville Town Square. The burned items were most likely German boo...
Postcard

A Sample Catch; Scenery at Cedar Lake

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Description: Photographic postcard of two images: the one on the left is titled: "A Sample Catch" and is of three men holding the fish they caught, with a dog sitting a...

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