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Edna Kern Hauling Water

Date: 01 13 1956
Description: Edna Kern, wife of Ernest G. Kern, hauling water in buckets to the hen house.
Photograph

Green County Court House

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view of the Green County Court House. Snow is on the ground.
Postcard

Ludlow House

Date: 12 1958
Description: The Ludlow house, home of Arabut Ludlow and his family.
Photograph

Octagon House

Date: 1930
Description: The Octagon House was built by General Francis Henry West. The photograph was taken late in 1930 and it shows the original "carpenter's lace" and other por...
Photograph

Wagons on Main Street

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of Main Street, looking north from the bridge. Horse-drawn wagons are parked on both sides of the snowy street.
Photograph

Swiss Reformed Church

Date: 1895
Description: Slightly elevated view of the Swiss Reformed Church, destroyed in 1899. Snow is on the ground.
Photograph

Aerial View of Monroe

Date: 01 30 1949
Description: Aerial view of town, with a large building on a town square in the center. The edges of town are bordered by fields and farms.
Photograph

New Glarus House

Date: 03 01 1949
Description: The New Glarus chalet home of Ernest Thierstein. It is an example of authentic Bernese architecture of canton Bern in Switzerland.
Photograph

Modern House

Date: 03 01 1949
Description: Exterior view of Modern house built for the Howard Steinmann family.
Photograph

Interrupted Road Construction

Date: 01 1981
Description: Empty snowy plains soon to be turned into Rt. 81. Hills and a few poles are in the far distance.
Photograph

Moonrise over Southern Wisconsin

Date: 01 1981
Description: A ranch style farmhouse sits in the far distance beyond an empty field at night, with a full moon in a cloudless sky directly above.
Photograph

East Main Street

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Description: View down a snowy commercial street. At the corner is the dentist office of Doctor Devereaux on an upper floor. On the left in the far background is a sign...
Photograph

West Main Street

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Description: View across street of a storefront at a snowy intersection.
Photograph

Rephotographic Pair: Shake Rag Street

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Description: A vintage view and a modern view of stone buildings on Shake Rag Street, presented as a pair. In the vintage view, the buildings were the homes of coal min...
Photograph

Rephotographic Pair: Moses Strong Mansion

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Description: A vintage and a modern view of the house of Moses Strong, presented as a pair.
Photograph

Rephotographic Pair: The Walker Hotel/House

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Description: A vintage view of the Walker Hotel and a modern view of the Walker House in the same building, presented as a pair. The stone building has a second-story p...
Photograph

Rephotographic Pair: Zinc Works

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Description: A vintage view and a modern view of the zinc works site, presented as a pair. Views include industrial buildings and snow.
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For the Birds

Date: 01 1977
Description: Dried sunflowers along a barbed wire fence in a field of snow.

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