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Filter: Creator Name of Cole, Harry Elsworth, 1861-1928
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Denniston House, P.J. Schnorrenberg, proprietor. View across railroad tracks of the hotel entrance with porch. A man and three women are standing on the po... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Front view of Hawks Tavern, also known as Hawks Inn, with a person sitting on the porch. There is also a second floor porch. Posters are posted on a pole i... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Three men are working outside on the street in front of the Dodgeville Hotel. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Wade House. The Wade House, one of the earliest stagecoach inns in Wisconsin, was built between 1847 and 1851 by Sylvanus Wade. It became... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Dell House, built in 1828 by Robert Allen in the vicinity of the Wisconsin Dells. This Inn was later operated by the J.B. McCuen Family. It burned down som... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A large wooden classical revival style building identified as the Kellogg Tavern in Kellogg's Corner, part of Somers township. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the log building which served as the post office in Loreta (formerly known as Loreto) until January 31, 1907. There is a church in the bac... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The Milton House Inn. The Milton House was a part of the Underground Railroad prior to the abolition of slavery. The house was built in 1845 by Joseph Good... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Steele Tavern, built in 1849. The large, two-story wooden building with a rear wing, is in a state of neglect. The portion on the left has twelve over eigh... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A group portrait of three women and two men outdoors on the steps of the Yerkes Observatory, a facility of the University of Chicago. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A deteriorating wooden structure with a stone foundation stands on an overgrown site. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A barn with a large cupola, built in 1852, on "The Capt. W.P. Ruggles Estate." |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View of the Low Tavern from the yard. There are two small porches on the left and right side of the building, and two chimneys. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | The Loganville Mill, built in 1861. The owner was Joseph Mackey and the carpenter was Billy Palmer. Sacks of feed are sitting on a loading platform. There ... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | The inactive Leland mill, with the faded painted sign, "Leland Roller Mill," on the upper story. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A large, two-story wood building with nine over six windows identified as an inn; at the time of the photograph it served as the Butte des Morts Post Offic... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A front view of the Layton House, which was originally an inn. Signs on the building indicate that at the time of the photograph it was the business of Car... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The Stone Barn Tavern, located about three miles west of Milton. The three cottonwood trees in front of the tavern were brought from Vermont. There are sev... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A man enters the side door of the stone barn at the Stone Barn Tavern, three miles west of Milton. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Clothes dry on a line behind the Prairie House Inn north of Monroe. The house has an exposed stone lower level and a porch wrapping around the two sides w... |
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