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Main Street

Date: 1873
Description: Main Street, with its dirt, ruts, cows (and presumably manure), but wide enough for easy hitching of wagons and teams.
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Down Monona Drive

Date: 09 30 1933
Description: A gas station in a Trachte building on the corner of Highway 51 (Monona Drive) and Highway 30 (Cottage Grove Road). "Johnson Gasoline," and "Defiance Spark...
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Early Morning at Railroad Crossing

Date: 10 03 1960
Description: Early morning at a railroad crossing on County Highway A, with houses and a barn in the distance.
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Frank Lloyd Wright - Choles Crash

Date: 11 13 1933
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright's 1929 L-29 Cord Phaeton automobile and an overturned Choles Floral Company delivery truck, driven by Frost Choles, at an accident scene...
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Bowman Dairy and Farm

Date: 09 14 1932
Description: View across road towards the Bowman dairy and farm on Fish Hatchery Road.
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Piper Brothers Farm

Date: 03 04 1932
Description: Piper Brothers farm scene, 4718 Odana Road near Midvale.
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Accident Scene on Highway 51

Date: 10 20 1931
Description: Accident scene on Highway 51, rural area. Caption at bottom reads: "High #51 — Looking West — Northwest — October 20, 1931 2:00 P.M."
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Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane

Date: 1872
Description: View of Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute).
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Farms of Burton, Fitlen, and Rustebakke

Date: 1873
Description: View of several farms, including Burton's, Fitlen's and Rustebakke's. Field arrangements and fencing patterns are evident. A man is walking along the bott...
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Blue Mounds Farm

Date: 1873
Description: View down a rocky rural lane near West Blue Mounds. Zigzag stake and rider split-rail fencing enclose a farmstead, which includes a barn, a frame house, ha...
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Andrew Thompson's House

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Description: View, looking south of a man wearing a hat in a horse-drawn buggy on a rural lane in Mount Horeb. On the right a man and three children are standing near t...
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Lars Davidson Reque's Farm with Men and Boys

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Description: In this tableau, men and boys stand at the edge of the field in elaborate and fanciful poses. The man on the left holds a hoe and cake while the one on the...
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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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Klinke Hatchery

Date: 01 1946
Description: Exterior view of seven buildings of Klinke Hatchery, 3255 Monona Drive, with unidentified man in doorway of one building.
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Governor Oscar Rennebohm Farm

Date: 05 24 1947
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm farm, on U.S. Highway 151, five miles east of the Capitol between Madison and Sun Prairie. Shows the barn and bungalow intended fo...
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Country Landscape

Date: 05 28 1961
Description: Landscape view of a rolling countryside. A farm is visible in the distance.
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Valley Farmland

Date: 06 1967
Description: Elevated view over plowed field and dirt road toward a farm with a farmhouse, barn, silo and other outbuildings residing in a sloping valley.
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Bird's Eye View

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of Mount Vernon from the a grassy hill.
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Lake Kegonsa Log Cabins — Highway 51

Date: 1930
Description: View from driveway over a stream towards a row of six log cabins to the left Highway 51. A Texaco Station and a delivery truck are on the far left. Cars ar...
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View from Hill of Cross Plains

Date: 1928
Description: View from grassy hill of uptown Cross Plains. The Catholic Church (St. Francis Xavier) is on the right, and farmhouses and other buildings are among fields...

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