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Fort Snelling

Date: 1907
Description: View of a post tower at Fort Snelling. A tree partially obscures the tower. Flags are arrayed on the battlements and the number "1820" (the year fort const...
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IH Building in France

Date: 12 1962
Description: View across street towards a building with IH logos on the side and a sign that reads: "McCormick International." The sign above the arched doorway reads: ...
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Power House

Date: 1918
Description: Text on front reads: "Power House, Kilbourn, Wis." A brick building with arched windows. Completed in 1909, the power plant is still in use today.

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Northern State Hospital for the Insane

Date: 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Front of Asylum, Winnebago, Wis." A four-story building built of stone with arched windows and a three-story balcony. Trees line the ...
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Northern State Hospital for the Insane

Date: 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Main Entrance to Asylum, Winnebago, Wis." A four story building built of stone with arched windows and a three story balcony. A bicyc...
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Heritage Plaque at Hotel Weyauwega

Date: 1963
Description: Text on the reverse reads: "Hotel Weyauwega. 'Here We Rest.' Weyauwega, Wisconsin 54983." A wooden plaque at the Weyauwega Hotel, surrounded by a brick arc...
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Westby Church

Date: 1920
Description: Handwritten on reverse: "Westby Church." A brick church built in the Gothic style with two towers.
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High School

Date: 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "High School, West Salem, Wis." A two-story, brick high school with arched windows and a belfry. It is surrounded by a lawn and trees.
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Washington School

Date: 12 02 1914
Description: Text on front reads: "Washington School, West Allis, Wis." A brick school built in 1925. Several additions were built in 1928, 1931 and 1951. Today it is s...
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German Reform Church and School

Date: 04 15 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "German Reform Church and School, Wayne, Wis." A Gothic Revival style church and school built of Cream Brick in 1878. Still in existen...
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Lutheran Theological Seminary

Date: 01 27 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Lutheran Theological Seminary, Wauwatosa, Wis." The two-story building with a full basement and a large attic was dedicated in 1893. ...
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First Congregational Church

Date: 1940
Description: Text on front reads: "First Congregational Church, Wauwatosa, Wis." The entrance to a brick, Georgian Revival church built in 1919. The portico has four Do...
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Wauwatosa School

Date: 08 29 1906
Description: Handwritten on front: "Wauwatosa School." A cyanotype postcard of a brick, multistory school, the stone plaque reads: "Public School." Arched doorways, lar...
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Waupun Correctional Institution

Date: 1983
Description: Text on front reads: "Waupun Correctional Institution." On reverse: "Waupun Correctional Institution. Located two blocks from Main Street on Madison Street...
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Trinity Episcopal Church

Date: 1917
Description: Text on front reads: "Episcopal Church, Waupun, Wis." Trinity Episcopal Church was built in 1871, of boards and batten, in the Gothic Revival style. It has...
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Trinity Episcopal Church

Date: 1917
Description: Text on front reads: "Interior Episcopal Church, Waupun, Wis." Trinity Episcopal Church was built in 1871. Interior view with wooden pews, chandelier, orna...
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Recreation Building

Date: 1930
Description: Text on front reads: "Recreation Building, Wausaukee, Wis." A two-story, brick and stone building with a portico, gasoline pumps and arched windows.
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Rothchild's Park Pavilion

Date: 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "Rothchild's Park Pavilion, Wausau, Wis." The Prairie School style stone building was built in 1911. Street car tracks can be seen on ...
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Methodist Episcopal Church

Date: 08 09 1920
Description: Text on the front reads: "M.E. Church, Waukesha, Wis." Three women and a child stand in the street in front of a limestone church built in 1895 in the Rich...
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International Shrine of the Father Kingdom

Date: 1964
Description: Text on reverse reads: "International Shrine of the Father Kingdom. International Schoenstatt Retreat Center. W284 N698 Cherry Lane, Waukesha, WI 53188." A...

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