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Meat Market

Date: 1910
Description: A customer waits while butchers stand behind the counter of a butcher shop, surrounded by meat hanging from the ceiling.
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Methodist Episcopal Church in Cambridge

Date: 1940
Description: Methodist Episcopal Church, founded in 1851. It claims to be "the oldest Scandinavian Methodist Episcopal church in the world."
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Methodist Episcopal Church in Cambridge

Date: 1905
Description: View of Methodist Episcopal church from the street. Caption reads: "Norw. M.E. Church Cambridge Wis."
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South Street and Water Tower

Date: 1900
Description: A view down unpaved South Street looking east. There is a water tower in the background. Caption reads: "Residence St."
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Caswell Residence

Date: 1900
Description: View of exterior of the Caswell residence, with a fountain and trees. Home of Chester S. Caswell, 303 Mechants Avenue.
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Dwight Foster Public Library

Date: 1930
Description: Exterior view of the library. Caption reads: "Dwight Foster Library, Fort Atkinson, Wis."
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Fort Atkinson Club

Date: 1905
Description: Front view of the Fort Atkinson Club. Caption reads: "'Fort Atkinson Club' Ft. Atkinson, Wis."
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Masonic Lodge

Date: 1957
Description: View of a purple beech tree planted in 1914 in front of the Masonic lodge.
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Octagon House

Date: 1940
Description: View of the octagon house. The caption below the photograph reads: "This house, built in 1849, is on Jefferson county trunk M, near Fort Atkinson. Its oute...
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Methodist Church and Parsonage

Date: 1885
Description: View of the Methodist Church and parsonage, with Reverend Elvardo Cyrus Potter standing outside with his daughter, Grace.
Postcard

St. John the Baptist Catholic Church

Date: 1910
Description: View towards the church on a hill. There is a wide set of stairs that leads up to the entrance. Caption reads: "St. John-the-Baptist Catholic Church, Jeffe...
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Faville Homestead

Date: 1885
Description: The Faville home, built about 1850 on 120 acres bought from the government in 1844. As late as 1922 the home was still in the Faville family. The additions...
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Lake Mills Public Library

Date: 1949
Description: Exterior view of the Public Library in Lake Mills.
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Lorenzo Dow Fargo Library

Date: 1910
Description: The Lorenzo Dow Fargo Library.
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Sacred Heart College

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior view of Sacred Heart College. Caption reads: "Sacred Heart College, Watertown, Wis."
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Riverview Park

Date: 1920
Description: View of Riverview Park, with gazebo and slide in foreground. Caption reads: "Riverview Park, Watertown, Wis."
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Octagon House

Date: 1950
Description: View of the spiral staircase inside Richards' Octagon House.
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Octagon House

Date: 1940
Description: View of the Octagon House's spiral stairway.
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Octagon House

Date: 1940
Description: View of the spiral staircase inside the Octagon House.
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Octagon House

Date: 1948
Description: Exterior view of the Octagon House, built by John Richards, an early local lawyer.

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