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Painting

A Winter Day

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Description: On the right, the farmer in his sheepskin coat drives a horse-drawn sled loaded with milk cans to the cheese factory. A blanket is covering the cans to pre...
Painting

Maple Sugaring

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Description: Two men work at running sap from maple trees. Buckets are hanging beneath the sap spouts or "spiles" inserted into holes drilled in the trees. A team of ho...
Photograph

Sugar House

Date: 04 09 1971
Description: Two horses standing in the snow are hitched to a wagon holding a metal trough. Behind the horses smoke is rising up from the sugar house where maple sap is...
Photograph

Sugar House

Date: 04 09 1971
Description: View uphill towards a sugar house, constructed of vertical logs, with a tall, metal chimney at the back. Smoke is coming out of the partially open double d...
Photograph

Menominee Indian Reservation Sawmill

Date: 1957
Description: View from shoreline of logs floating in the water of Neopit Mill Pond. The sawmill is across the water, partially obscured by tall piles of logs.
Photograph

Hearthstone

Date: 07 1968
Description: View across lawn towards the historic Hearthstone House. A historic marker is in the foreground on the left, and it reads: "Hearthstone, World's first Elec...
Photograph

Beyer Home and Museum

Date: 1972
Description: View across front lawn towards the historic Beyer Home. The front porch wraps around the side of the house to the left, there is a three-story tower room a...
Photograph

Outside Villa Louis

Date: 1968
Description: A woman dressed in period clothing is holding the hand of a young girl, with her parents standing behind her. Two other women in period clothing are standi...
Photograph

Fox River

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Description: Elevated view over trees towards the Fox River. A dam is creating a reservoir for hydroelectric power. Former paper mills are on the left shore of the rive...
Photograph

Madison Gas & Electric

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Description: Smoke is pouring out of three smokestacks at Madison Gas & Electric.
Photograph

Smog

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Description: Elevated view of smog obscuring the skyline of the city. Snow is on the ground.
Photograph

Burned Down Cottage

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Description: Scorched metal, ash, a foundation, and a brick chimney are all that remain of a cottage after a fire. Bare trees surround the ruins of the cottage.
Photograph

Madison Gas & Electric at Sunrise

Date: 01 1977
Description: Silhouetted view of the smokestacks, buildings, and parking lot of Madison Gas & Electric at sunrise. Smoke is rising out of the smokestacks, and cars are ...
Photograph

Smokestacks

Date: 01 1977
Description: View looking up towards three of the main smokestacks at Madison Gas & Electric.
Photograph

Madison Gas & Electric

Date: 01 1977
Description: View across railroad tracks towards smoke rising from the buildings and smokestacks of Madison Gas & Electric. Snow is on the ground.
Photograph

McCormick Building in France

Date: 1962
Description: View toward a building with a large sign that reads: "McCormick International." The IH logo is above. A crane is at the corner of the building on the right...

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