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Oliver Chilled Plow Works Advertisement

Date: 1883
Description: Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f...
Photograph

Cross Plains from Lutheran Church Hill

Date: 05 10 1928
Description: The Lutheran Church and buildings, seen from Lutheran Church Hill.
Photograph

Laxey Church

Date: 1947
Description: Laxey Church, built prior to the Civil War, was named after Laxey in the Isle of Man, from which many of the immigrants had come. There is a cemetery with ...
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Cemetery Visit

Date: 1958
Description: Local historian William F. Wolf visiting the Native American cemetery. In the background is a barn and a silo and other farm buildings.
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City View

Date: 
Description: Elevated city view from an overlooking mountain. A church and cemetery stand among dwellings.
Postcard

Church and Farmhouses

Date: 1909
Description: Elevated view of a church with cemetery and farmhouses and rolling hills in the distance. Caption reads: "Ashippun, Wis."
Photograph

River, Cemetery, and Farms

Date: 02 16 1978
Description: "The long lens compresses this view from the frozen Rock River in the foreground, the Catholic cemetery, and the Haag farm buildings in the distance."
Photograph

Valentine's Day

Date: 02 12 1978
Description: "With the approach of Valentine's Day, the camera looks through the decorated windows of the Bob Bernhard home. Brenda watches her brother, Scott, playing ...
Photograph

Funeral Service at Zion Lutheran Church

Date: 02 16 1978
Description: "Zion Lutheran Church, Town of Theresa. At this moment, funeral services of Herb Sellnow are taking place."
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Funeral Service at Zion Lutheran Church

Date: 02 16 1978
Description: "Carrying the casket from Zion, the small country church."
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Funeral Service at Zion Lutheran Church

Date: 02 16 1978
Description: "Rev. Herbert Lemke and Charles Koepsell, Mayville, lead the mourners to the grave site."
Photograph

Parade through Cemetery

Date: 05 30 1967
Description: View of a parade traveling through a cemetery. Beyond, barns and farmhouses can be seen.
Photograph

Tractor Pull

Date: 09 1984
Description: "Theresa Lions Tractor Pull."
Photograph

River View Mobile Home Park

Date: 11 1987
Description: "Andy Schnitzler, Jr. posed with shovel, broke ground for the River View Mobile Home Park."
Photograph

80th Anniversary Founding of Swiss Colony

Date: 08 16 1925
Description: A chorus of men singing on stage with a crowd watching. A group of officials seated on the right. Rolling farmland in the background.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 154-160

Date: 
Description: Patience we learned and requiem
to rest the tense who die
For we forgot the brazen earth
in courtship of the sky
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Farmland Vista

Date: 1961
Description: Vista over farmland from a small country cemetery.
Photograph

View of Zion Church and Cemetery

Date: 09 1986
Description: Zion Church on Zion Church Road.
Photograph

Cemetery View

Date: 1961
Description: View over fields, looking out from the cemetery.
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Cross Plains from Lutheran Church Hill

Date: 1928
Description: View down valley towards the back of the Lutheran Church and cemetery. Houses and barns are in the valley below, and more hills are in the far background. ...

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