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| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | This map is red and black ink on tracing cloth and is oriented with north to the upper left. This hand-drawn map shows a central portion of the military ro... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View down the canal, with buildings along the shoreline, and a boat coming down the canal. |
| Date: | 06 1961 |
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| Description: | A German shepherd jumps across Stand Rock as a man and child in traditional Indian apparel look on. The man is pointing to the dog. |
| Date: | 12 14 1977 |
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| Description: | Man sweeping the walkway and entrance of the Rio Rexall Drugstore. The windows are decorated for the Christmas holiday. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Rial Herreman (with hat), visits Molstad's Drugstore. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Children at fountain on Broadway and Superior. Two girls are sitting in a pony-cart, a girl is looking through a railing with a dog, while a boy is filling... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A streetcar apparently zips along down the center of Broadway, the town's main thoroughfare. The structure with the awning (to the right of the old bank bu... |
| Date: | 04 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters from neighboring communities help put out at a nighttime fire in the downtown business district. |
| Date: | 09 04 1960 |
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| Description: | The Wyocena Farmers' Cooperative, a feed mill with railroad tracks along the side of the building. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of the Wisconsin River in the Wisconsin Dells from underneath an overhanging rocky outcropping. A canoe is beached on the far left. The word... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Two women and a man pose atop Gibraltar Rock in Richmond Memorial Park, which was dedicated by Jens Jensen and the Wisconsin Friends in 1927 in order to co... |
| Date: | 05 15 1960 |
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| Description: | Exterior of a house with a keyhole shaped window. |
| Date: | 09 11 1931 |
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| Description: | Crowd standing on the street and sidewalk in front of the Doylestown Bank after a robbery. |
| Date: | 09 11 1931 |
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| Description: | Alfred Deering, on the steps in front of the Doylestown Bank, holding his hat. He received a wound to the head during the Doylestown bank robbery. Men are ... |
| Date: | 09 17 1930 |
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| Description: | Collapsed ice house in Pardeeville. A roof and debris are in the foreground, and trees and buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Mounted on a ladder, a man is poised to empty a bucket onto the open umbrella of a man sitting on a sidewalk bench. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Sheriff John MacKenzie poses in front of the Portage jail with his staff. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of cattle yards near the railroad tracks. A farm and farm buildings can be seen in the background. |
| Date: | 09 04 1960 |
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| Description: | Quonset hut-style Wyocena Farmer's Cooperative. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the railroad yards and station. Caption reads: "R. R. Yards and Station, Portage, Wis." |
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