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Filter: Creator Name of Cole, Harry Elsworth, 1861-1928
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A stone house with a small front porch and balcony stands beside another stone building on the left. There are milk cans and chickens in front of the house... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across street of several commercial buildings in a downtown area. The stone building in the foreground is nearly covered by vines and is identified as... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The Astor House hotel, with an automobile parked under trees on the left, and a large billboard for Wrigley's Spearmint gum on the right. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | This view of the Token Creek Tavern (Field's Inn) was created from a tintype (circa 1870) by E.E. Lawrence. A crowd has gathered on the porch and balcony o... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A woman on horseback poses with another horse in front of the three-story Western Inn as people look on from the porches. There is a large belvedere on th... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A man stands near the wooden steps of the Wisconsin House, a wood frame building with a large brick wing. There is snow on the ground and on the roof. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Men stand on the street level porch and women on the second floor wrap-around balcony of the Alba House. A sign on the railing advertises a harness shop. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Men with horses and buggies pose in front of a three-story wooden building identified as the Angier House by a sign painted on the clapboards. Women look o... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | An old commercial structure identified as the Twin Island House. There are feed sacks on the porch and a Coca-Cola sign on the front of the building. This... |
| Date: | 09 03 1925 |
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| Description: | A deteriorating one and a half-story log structure owned by John Corn. He was a Menomonee tribesman who operated a logger's place of entertainment and supp... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A large wooden building with side wing and covered porch, this mill was built in 1853-4 by Newell Dustin. There is a cupola behind the chimney. According t... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The three-story wooden mill building, built about 1848 by Snow and Walden. The building has twelve over twelve windows and an addition on the left. |
| Date: | 04 1926 |
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| Description: | Old stone mill, with a smaller wooden addition on the left. Water is passing through the flume. |
| Date: | 06 19 1925 |
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| Description: | Exterior of stone mill. An automobile of the period is parked under the front portico, and there is a wooden wing in the rear. A sign in front advertises "... |
| Date: | 08 1925 |
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| Description: | A mower and car parked in front of the dilapidated Mayne Hotel. Two boys are standing to the right of the car, and two men are talking near a wagon and bug... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | This old hotel was known variously as the Park, Brick, or Circus hotel and dates from the 1870s. The large brick structure has a front gable with fancy shi... |
| Date: | 07 1925 |
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| Description: | This substantial wooden hotel in the classical revival style has a large wing in the rear and another on the right. A wrap-around porch unifies the buildin... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The brick, Italianate style Fox House hotel in Columbus. There are brackets under the overhang and a large belvidere. A sign on the building advertises Coc... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Three-story stone mill built in 1847 by J.C. Sherwood. Many panes of glass in the twelve over twelve windows are broken and the roof over the loading dock ... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A copy of a duo-tone print of the exterior of a three-story wooden classical revival building identified as the Empire House. |
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