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Rennebohm Farm

Date: 06 30 1944
Description: Rennebohm Farm buildings, with house in foreground and barn and silos in background, located five miles from the Capitol, 3787 Highway 151 between Madison ...
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Cross Plains from Lutheran Church Hill

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

Date: 05 1925
Description: View from road of front entrance of the Speedwell Farm. Original caption reads: "Desirable farm entrance -- neat and reasonably constructed. Also showing t...
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Danville Schoolhouse

Date: 05 1925
Description: View across road of the front facade of a rural schoolhouse. A small dog is lying on the entrance's front steps, and the sign above reads: "Liberty School ...
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Building Concrete Curb of Silo

Date: 1915
Description: View of the construction of the concrete curbs of pit silo, including a wooden form. On the left is a young girl looking out from behind a fence. In the fa...
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Wendling Barn

Date: 2004
Description: The Wendling barn was built in 1929 for $10,000. In 1991, cows were milked for the last time.
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Gary Giese Farm

Date: 2004
Description: Gary Giese's farm milks 30 cows that produce about 1,000 lbs. of milk per day.
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Preparing Cemetery Plots

Date: 06 1926
Description: A man uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor and a Perry automatic scraper to prepare the grounds at Mount Emblem Cemetery. Farm buildings are in the back...
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Dairy Barn

Date: 1905
Description: The dairy barn on the agriculture campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Theresa Village Marker

Date: 02 01 1978
Description: "In the early morning hours, a new month dawns on the small village of Theresa. The village is now in the 130th year of its existence." The village marke...
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City View from Water Tower

Date: 02 02 1978
Description: "Water tower view, looking due west."
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City View from Water Tower

Date: 02 02 1978
Description: "Water tower view, looking to the east."
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City View from Water Tower

Date: 02 02 1978
Description: "A view from the water tower, looking due south. Groundhog Day was a cloud-free day; forecasting six more weeks of bad weather."
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New Subdivision

Date: 02 02 1978
Description: "The camera looks to the new subdivision and beyond."
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Village View

Date: 02 16 1978
Description: "Village of Theresa, looking north."
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Paul Koll Farm

Date: 01 1983
Description: "This photo of Theresa was taken from the Ralph Bodden farm. The long 500mm mirror lens compresses the distance from the Paul Koll farm in the foreground t...
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Paul Koll Farm

Date: 01 1983
Description: "This photo of Theresa was taken from the Ralph Bodden farm. The long 500mm mirror lens compresses the distance from the Paul Koll farm in the foreground t...
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St. Peter's Church Steeple

Date: 05 1984
Description: "Workers do steeple repair on St. Peter's Church."
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New Water Tower

Date: 04 17 1997
Description: "Shirley Widmer poses on the now completed water tower base."
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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.

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