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Entrance to the Pine Grove Camp

Date: 1928
Description: View from driveway with stone columns, over road towards the entrance gate to the Pine Grove Camp. People are standing near an automobile, tents and an out...
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Cottages at Pine Grove Camp

Date: 1928
Description: View of a group of guest cottages at Pine Grove Camp. Automobiles are parked by two of the cottages. A woman and a girl are sitting on a park bench under t...
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Stencil List Department

Date: 1928
Description: The stencil list department of The W.S. Ponton Company.
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Uncle Al's Stand on Lucky 13

Date: 1928
Description: Roadside kiosk that provides information and sells candy, soda, gasoline and tickets for Dells attractions. A man is sitting on the porch, and pennants han...
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Scene at Mill Bluff Store near Sauk City

Date: 1928
Description: Two girls standing and sitting in the foreground on a lawn. In the background on the left a group of people stand near a tent and a parked automobile. Behi...
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Young Housewife

Date: 1928
Description: Young housewife wearing apron, leaning forward and looking down. Photograph for the extension project of the International Harvester Co. of Chicago.
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Funeral Flowers

Date: 1928
Description: Floral decorations for a funeral, massed in the corner of a residential room. Printed on large ribbons adorning the decorations are the words: "Husband," "...
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View from Hill of Cross Plains

Date: 1928
Description: View from grassy hill of uptown Cross Plains. The Catholic Church (St. Francis Xavier) is on the right, and farmhouses and other buildings are among fields...
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St. Francis Xavier Church During Jubilee

Date: 1928
Description: Interior elevated view of St. Francis Xavier Church looking towards the altar. Note the American and religious flags and bunting decorating the pillars and...
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William O. Petersen

Date: 1928
Description: William O. Petersen, youngest son of William F. and Alma Schmidt Petersen, plays at the Geneva Lake shore. There is a picnic basket in the background and a...
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Alma and William O. Petersen

Date: 1928
Description: Waist-up, seated portrait of Alma Schmidt Petersen holding her son, William O. Petersen. She is wearing a dark dress with a lace collar, and a beaded neckl...
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Children in Rowboat

Date: 1928
Description: Alma Schmidt Petersen, standing on the shore of Geneva Lake at Black Point, steadies a rowboat with her three sons and two other boys in it. Conrad Peterse...
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Petersen Boys on the Pier

Date: 1928
Description: Conrad, resting his feet in a baby carriage, and Edward, center, sit on a bench on the pier at Black Point; their younger brother William stands at right. ...
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Elmer Droster Home

Date: 1928
Description: Exterior view of the Elmer Droster home at 5301 Felland Road. There is a garage on the left, and in the far background a ridge with trees.
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First Combine Made and Operated in Oregon

Date: 1928
Description: Elevated view of three men using a horse-drawn combine. Letter accompanying the image reads: ". . . we are mailing you to-day, picture of the first Combine...
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Freddie Mae Hill

Date: 1928
Description: Quarter-length profile portrait of Freddie Mae Hill, the first African-American resident of Madison to graduate from the University of Wisconsin, Madison H...
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Truck Delivery

Date: 1928
Description: Truck with trailer loaded with lumber. More lumber is stacked under a roofed storage area in the background. Sign on front and side of truck reads: "W.R. B...
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Man Posing on Horse-Drawn Dump Rake

Date: 1928
Description: Left side view of a man sitting on a horse-drawn dump rake. Another man is standing behind him. Farm buildings are across a road in the background.
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Horse-Drawn Harvester-Thresher

Date: 1928
Description: View across field towards a man driving a large team of horses pulling a harvester thresher. A man is standing in the field in the foreground. A silo, a lo...
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Man with Horse-Drawn Harvester-Thresher

Date: 1928
Description: A man is standing in a field near a harvester-thresher pulled by a large team of horses. The horses are wearing fly-nets. Three other men are standing on t...

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