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Vesper, Wisconsin

Date: 1895
Description: View of Vesper, featuring various buildings.
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Elevated View of Town

Date: 1907
Description: Elevated view of town. Caption reads: "Marshfield, Wisconsin".
Photograph

Church and Trees

Date: 09 19 1961
Description: View from road of All Saint's Church behind a group of trees. The front entrance is on the right, with a signboard nearby listing times of the masses and c...
Photograph

Dixon Hotel

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Description: Exterior view across street towards the Dixon Hotel, featuring an overhang over the entrance supported by groups of Ionic columns. There is a balustrade on...
Photograph

Dixon Hotel

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Description: Exterior of Dixon Hotel featuring an overhang supported by groups of Ionic columns. Pedestrians walk along the sidewalk around the hotel, and a child stand...
Photograph

Asa C. Bennett and Sons Cranberry farm

Date: 1905
Description: Cranberry marshes and irrigation ditch. The family home, barn and outbuildings are in the background.
Photograph

Ho-Chunk Men Waiting for Annuity Payment

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Description: Group of five Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) men seated on the lawn outside a building waiting for their annuity payment.
Print

Felker Brothers Mfg. Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Felker Brothers Manufacturing Company. At the top is a color illustration of a landscape with a red barn, a farmhouse, silos, and a culve...
Photograph

Group at Skunk Hill

Date: 1920
Description: Small group of men and boys gathered outside a traditional elm-bark structure at the upper part of the Skunk Hill community. A young boy stands on the supp...
Photograph

Frame of Skunk Hill Medicine Lodge

Date: 1920
Description: Frame of medicine lodge with canvas removed. A man or a woman is working with the canvas. The fence surrounding a dance circle is visible on the right.
Photograph

Medicine Lodge at Skunk Hill

Date: 1920
Description: View of a portion of Skunk Hill, with the medicine lodge in the background next to other buildings. The canvas is partially on the lodge.
Postcard

Grand Rapids and the Wisconsin River

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Description: Elevated view from bluff of Grand Rapids and the Wisconsin River.
Postcard

Pavilion, near Grand Rapids, Wis.

Date: 1914
Description: Hand-colored postcard of an enclosed pavilion with a wrap-around porch. A flag is flying from a flagpole on the roof. Caption reads: "Pavilion, near Grand ...
Postcard

Lincoln High School

Date: 1909
Description: Black and white photographic view of the high school — a large brick building with arches in front of the entrance. Caption reads: "Lincoln High School, Gr...
Photograph

Griffith State Nursery

Date: 04 1938
Description: Elevated view of the state nursery showing fields, an above ground irrigation system, and blocks of plantings. There are men working in a field on the righ...
Book or Pamphlet

Bus in Front of Wegner-Pirwitz Auto Dealership

Date: 1921
Description: View across unpaved street towards a bus parked in front of the Wegner-Pirwitz Auto Dealership. Snow is on the ground.
Photograph

Lewinski Family

Date: 11 13 1965
Description: A family with a man, a woman, and three children, are posing in front of a house. Caption reads: "Born on Friday the 13th 30 years ago, Mrs. James [Delores...
Postcard

St. Jude's Chapel

Date: 1963
Description: Text on back reads: "Log Chapel dedicated to St. Jude, Apostle, at the terminus of a bridge from which a wayside shrine and World War-I Memorial is viewed....
Postcard

St. Jude's Chapel

Date: 1960
Description: Text on back reads: "Lovely, rustic Chapel, dedicated to St. Jude, the Patron Saint of the Impossible. Hand-carved Altar and Communion Rail. Artistic hand-...
Postcard

Grotto of Lourdes, Grotto Shrine

Date: 1946
Description: Text on front reads: "Grotto of Lourdes, Grotto Shrine, Rudolph, Wisconsin." A garden with flowers, rocks, shrubs and paths. A rock shrine with a statue of...

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