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Horse and Buggy on a Country Road

Date: 1906
Description: View down tree-lined country road near Wausau, taken by Dr. Joseph Smith, talented amateur photographer. It depicts women (probably members of his family) ...
Photograph

Farm near Stream

Date: 
Description: View from hill over a valley dotted with farmsteads and a meandering stream in the foreground. A group of three or four people are posing at the opposite s...
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G. Gullockson Farmstead

Date: 1876
Description: View, from above, of what may be the G. Gullockson farmstead. A frame house is in the left foreground, with a large group of men, women and children standi...
Photograph

International R-183 School Bus

Date: 1953
Description: Two children are exiting an International R-183 School Bus. The children are greeted by a woman, possibly their mother. A man, possibly the father of the c...
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Double Yoke of Oxen Pulling Wagon

Date: 02 09 1915
Description: A double yoke of oxen are pulling an empty wagon down the road while a group of people is looking on in the background. There is a stream of water going th...
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Women and Young Girl Leaning on Fence

Date: 1897
Description: Ada Bass, the photographer's wife, leaning against a fence, next to daughter Everetta Bass as a young girl, along a dirt road. The photographer's sister, R...
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Carol Commack Banks on Roadside

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Description: Carol Commack Banks stands at a roadside in the grass next to a post fence. There are houses in the far background.
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Group of Youth on Way to School

Date: 06 11 1920
Description: Four young boys walking on a dirt road in rural Cook County on their way to school. All are dressed similarly. Two older girls are also seen walking closel...
Photograph

Chippewa Spring House

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Description: The Chippewa Spring House, a small round building with a conical roof with a sign over the door reading "Chippewa Spring," sitting off to the side of a dir...
Photograph

Crop Dusting Plane

Date: 06 16 1949
Description: "This crop dusting plane crashed and burned on the Lucy Firk's property on the north end of the village."
Photograph

H.H. Bright and his Daughters and Friend

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Description: Four girls posed sitting in a buggy pulled by a single horse, and man posed standing nearby, probably H.H. Bright and his daughters and their friend.
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Bike Hosteling Scrapbook: 1941 Season Trip #3 Highlights

Date: 07 22 1941
Description: Scrapbook page of trip highlights from a bike hosteling trip to Pine Bluff (Dane County), Sauk City (Sauk County), and Okee (Columbia County), sponsored by...
Photograph

Boarding R-Line School Bus

Date: 1958
Description: Slightly elevated view of a group of four young women and one young man as they board an International R-line school bus parked along a rural road. The tex...
Photograph

Women with Buggy

Date: 
Description: View down unpaved road towards a woman posing sitting in a horse-drawn buggy at a fork in the road. Three children are standing in a field on the side of t...
Photograph

Children Exiting an International School Bus

Date: 1930
Description: View down side of road of a group of children exiting an International school bus. On the front and side of the bus is painted the "International" emblem. ...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 514-521

Date: 
Description: Put aside anything so futile

All that fermented time
spent and blackened, much obscured,
is now restored with cheese and wine
Photograph

Women Riding Sidesaddle

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Description: Two women posing sidesaddle on two horses on a dirt path with a wooden board fence behind them. In the foreground is a colt. In the background are a field ...
Postcard

Newton Avenue

Date: 1911
Description: View across field of Newton Avenue. A group of people are posed in the field near trees, and houses are line the avenue on the left and right. Caption read...
Photograph

Two Girls Standing on Bridge

Date: 1913
Description: View from riverbank looking down towards two girls standing in the middle of a bridge along a road. They are looking over the railing at the water below. F...
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Woman Driving a Buggy

Date: 
Description: View from side of unpaved road towards a woman posing sitting in a wagon holding the reins of a single horse in a rural area with open fields.

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