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| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Abraham Schmocker, a "hermit" who lived in "Stumptown" near Alma, seated on a bench outside his log cabin, holding a kitty. |
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| Description: | Dutch family posing outside their log home with two horses. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A man kneels next to a monument dedicated to the pioneers. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Souvenir postcard showing a view of the Cutler house and Morris D. Cutler. Caption reads: "Souvenir postcard of centennial celebration of the founding of W... |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Centennial Parade near the Wisconsin State Capitol. The Blue Mounds float depicting Dane County's first settler, Ebenezer Brigham, is coming down... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Low view of a bronze statue of Daniel Boone standing atop a pedestal of rough-hewn rocks. Leafy tree limbs form the backdrop. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's sculpture entitled "Buffalo Bill - The Scout," which commemorates William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody. The bronze sculptur... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Thomas (Tom) and Florence Quinney standing in front of their farmhouse which has a climbing vine growing on it. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Katherine (Kate) Quinney and her brothers, Thomas (Tom) and Willam (Bill), standing in a yard. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Will and Lorena Holloway seated in a car parked in a farmyard while chickens forage in the foreground. |
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| Description: | Wooden-framed studio portrait of Mary Potter Reynolds, Richard Quinney's great great grandmother. |
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| Description: | A view of a "log cabin of a pioneer". Two other log cabins are visible in the background. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | The house built by Charles A. Grignon between 1837 and 1839 for Mary Meade, his Pennsylvania bride. Mrs. Grignon and her family are standing in front of th... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Monument dedicated to the first settlers of Coon Valley. The monument is in Norwegian. There is a cemetery in the distance. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Outside the Swingli House, near a memorial for the first New Glarus settlers. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A promotional card displaying a group of thirteen people outside their new home in Northern Wisconsin. The caption bellow the photograph reads, "These pe... |
| Date: | 05 1995 |
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| Description: | "Pioneer reenactors set up their tents on the Rock River in Mayville." |
| Date: | 09 07 1997 |
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| Description: | "Pioneer Days is celebrated at Firemen's Park. Civil War reenactors, in period garb, put on a show of battlefield conditions." |
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| Description: | Plaque marker identifying the “Pioneer Military Road” route from Fort Howard at Green Bay to Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chien. |
| Date: | 1838 |
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| Description: | Ox-drawn cart in which Mr. and Mrs. Salmon Upson traveled from Connecticut in 1838. |
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