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Canfield Hop House

Date: 1900
Description: Old Canfield Hop House, exterior of building. Text reads: "Of the many fantastic hop - houses, this one alone remains a relic of the famous days of Sauk Co...
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Sauk County Road

Date: 1920
Description: Loganville Road in Sauk County taken by the Wisconsin Good Roads Association. The photograph was meant to create a contrast between the new improved road ...
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Bridge over Wisconsin River

Date: 1922
Description: Elevated view of bridge over Wisconsin River built in 1921 to take the place of the old wooden bridge when it became condemned. Caption reads: "Prairie Du ...
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Woman at Lookout Cliff

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Description: View of a woman taking a photograph from Lookout Cliff at Devil's Lake. Below, a train runs through a field surrounded by trees.
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Rock Scenery

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Description: View of house and farm buildings in Ableman with a rocky hill in the background.
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Dairy Days Parade

Date: 1950
Description: Bernard Arms holding a firearm poses on a parade float decorated in an autumn theme, including a stuffed bear, fox, and squirrel. The parade was a part of ...
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Lewis and Otis Arms

Date: 1957
Description: Lewis Arms (left, wearing a hat) poses with his arm around his uncle Otis Arms, probably at Bernard Arms's farm. There is a woman in a field walking away i...
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La Valle Roller Mills Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the La Valle Roller Mills, a miller of wheat, rye, and buckwheat flours and cornmeal. Includes illustrations of Plansifter System machinery, ...
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School Class at Merrimac

Date: 1890
Description: A large class stands outside a school. Front row, left to right: Stella Nuzum, unknown, unknown, unknown, Mabel Devlin, Mary Devlin, unknown, Alice Odekirk...
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The Wisconsin Agriculturist Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of The Wisconsin Agriculturist, a weekly published in North Freedom, Wisconsin, with small background images of corn and wheat and a farmer plow...
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Old Gold Lager, Beer Label

Date: 1933
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Old Gold Lager, Old Gold Lager Beer, Brewed and Bottled by the Reedsburg Brewery." T...
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Canfield Hops House

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Description: Small house used for the storage of harvested hops.
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Loading Corn into Silo

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Description: The barn in the foreground, left, is the school barn for the Hillside Home School (which was run by Frank Lloyd Wright's aunts & Enos Lloyd Jones sisters, ...
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Motorcycle Police in Front of Badger Ordnance Sign

Date: 1944
Description: Motorcycle police at the Badger Ordnance plant in Baraboo, Wisconsin, between 1942 and 1945. These men patrolled the fence line of the plant. One of the gu...
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Hops Picking

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Description: A large group of people including men, women and children gathered together for hops picking. They are pictured in the middle of a hops field with hops pla...
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Man and Grandsons Standing in a Field

Date: 1880
Description: Albert Ludley Tuttle of Baraboo, standing with his grandchildren and grown sons with farm equipment and horses in a field of young trees. In the field in t...
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Feeding the Chickens

Date: 1940
Description: Gustave Ott (1871-1954) and Anna Ott (1871-1954) feeding a large flock of multi-colored chickens on their farm. Gustave is carrying a kettle and Anna is ho...
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Hop Harvesting

Date: 1868
Description: Stereograph of an elevated view of hop harvesters, men, women and children, posing in a field at H.H. Potter's Hop Yard. Trellises of mature hops plants ar...
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Devil's Lake

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Description: Stereograph of an elevated view of Devil's Lake and the valley to the southeast. The valley may be the site of the old campground that has been moved farth...
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Gene Murray's Ox Team

Date: 1957
Description: Text on front reads: "Amos and Andy, Gene Murray's Ox Team, Reedsburg, Wis." Mr. Murray posing with his oxen team and covered wagon. Text on the wagon cove...

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