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Twelve Mile House

Date: 1935
Description: An old house in a rural area, with some broken windows, and a road in the foreground.
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Tank Cottage and Yard Junk

Date: 1906
Description: A view of the cottage with large trees around it, and a stone wall in the front yard. Some windows appear shattered. Wooden pallets are stacked in the fron...
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Abandoned Farm House

Date: 12 1971
Description: An abandoned farm house located on Highway 39 between Linden and Mineral Point.
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Dane Co. Home For The Aged

Date: 02 22 1950
Description: Exterior side view of Dane Co. Home For The Aged, showing porches and a dangerous fire escape. The newspaper headline calls the building a "fire trap."
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Dane Co. Home For The Aged

Date: 02 23 1950
Description: Metal fire escape at rear of the Dane County Home For The Aged. Newspaper calls building a "fire trap."
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Vacant House and Grain Elevators

Date: 08 18 1963
Description: View of the porch of a vacant at 535 10th Avenue with grain elevators in the background. This particular group of grain elevators were called "Tanktown."
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Abandoned Farm with Overgrown Yard

Date: 09 04 1967
Description: An abandoned farm with overgrown foliage. In the background is a farmhouse. The doorway is detailed with decorative pilasters or engaged columns flanking t...
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Bedford Springs Cabin

Date: 1860
Description: View of an old cabin, built in 1860, on the grounds of the Bedford Springs Hotel. In the foreground is a dirt road, and a pedestrian is walking near the fe...
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Sloping Porch

Date: 03 1926
Description: A man holding a bundle of logs is opening the screen door on a farmhouse with a deteriorating front porch.
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Woman and Child on Porch, Beekman Quarters

Date: 1966
Description: A small child is seated on a porch while a woman stands in the doorway. "Yards turn to mudd [sic] when it rains — children must play on broken and rotting ...
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Hurricane Damage, Beekman Quarters

Date: 1966
Description: "Damage done by Hurrican [sic] Betsy remains untouched eight months later. Note that tin covering has been torn off far edge of roof. Rain leaks through ot...
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Houses, Beekman Quarters

Date: 1966
Description: Several houses along a dirt road. A person stands in the doorway of one house. "'Some roofs leak worse than others, but we all get wet inside when it rains...
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House, Beekman Quarters

Date: 1966
Description: "Roof leaks. Yard is too treacherous to play in or to hang out clothes. This photo was taken from the street as a tenant looked out the front door down the...
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Front Porch, Beekman Quarters

Date: 1966
Description: "Two rooms. Six people, ages 33, 12, 8, 5, 2, 1. Wood heat. $12.00 per month. Carry water from neighbors front yard."

Beekman Quarters housed 81 people i...

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Front Porch, Beekman Quarters

Date: 1966
Description: "Woodpile on porch. Dangerous steps and porch. Boards layed [sic] over mud for front walk. Two persons have one room each in their building. Ages 50 and 7...
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Woman and Child on Porch, Beekman Quarters

Date: 1966
Description: A woman and a child sit on the front porch of a house. This building houses 8 people in two rooms.

Beekman Quarters housed 81 people in 23 buildings. Non...

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Toilet, South Wall Street

Date: 1966
Description: "This flush toilet is one of two shared by the 51 people who live in this slum. The other is an outdoor non-flush toilet shared by 14 people, 4 families. ...
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Woman on Porch, Golds Alley

Date: 1966
Description: "The 69 year-old woman on the front porch lives alone at the bottom of this unpaved, unlighted, ungraded alley. The building next to her is empty. She hea...
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Houses, Golds Alley

Date: 1966
Description: "The hydrant (blurred right center foreground) is shared by 21 people in 8 families. No streetlights, though the alley is well over 100 yards long. The lan...
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Man on Porch, Golds Alley

Date: 1966
Description: In the foreground, a man with a cane on a porch looks down towards the camera. In the background, a man walks down the alley. "The alley is long, dark and ...

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