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| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Farmers' and Merchants' Union Bank on a street corner. Designed by Louis Sullivan. Caption reads: "Farmers' and Merchants' Union Bank, Columbus, Wisconsin.... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the exterior of the theater. There are posters in front of the entrance. A current attraction is George Fawcett in "The Frame... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from street of the stone hotel on a corner. Large awnings are over the first floor windows. Decorative ironwork is on the roof. Caption reads... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | View from the street of three people standing in front of a small house. There is a small Oeil-de-boeuf window in the upper story. The windows have shutter... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Color postcard showing a three-story building, which has several signs indicating it is the Hotel Swoboda. Three cars are parked outside the building, and ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Hotel Fenlon, Rhinelander, Wis." Hotel built of brick, with a marquee that reads: "Hotel Fenlon, Cocktail Lounge". There is also a ve... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Hotel Engelbright and Masonic Temple, Ripon, Wis." The Hotel and Temple stand together on the right side of an unpaved street. There ... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Engelbright Hotel, Ripon, Wis." The Hotel stands on an unpaved street with a sidewalk in front. A horse and buggy are on the right. T... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Several people, holding umbrellas, are riding in a car decorated with many tissue paper pom poms for a parade. There are miniature horse models on the hood... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Text on back reads: "Log Chapel dedicated to St. Jude, Apostle, at the terminus of a bridge from which a wayside shrine and World War-I Memorial is viewed.... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | An automobile decorated for an early 4th of July parade traveling down the street. The passengers are dressed festively. Signs for "Castersen & Co. General... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Festively dressed passengers posing in an automobile decorated for a parade. A house and trees are in the background. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Central Fire Station, Sheboygan, Wis." Three horse-drawn vehicles are surrounded by uniformed firemen. There is a dog in the buggy to... |
| Date: | 07 31 1924 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Foeste Hotel, Sheboygan, Wis." A corner view of the Foeste Hotel, which has many arched windows, and dormer windows above. An automob... |
| Date: | 10 20 1909 |
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| Description: | Text on the front reads: "Opera House Block, Shullsburg, Wis." Diagonal view across unpaved street. The building on the right is the red brick, Italianate,... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Masonic Temple - Sparta, Wis." This Neoclassical building was built in 1923 and faced with tapestry cream brick. In front is a signpo... |
| Date: | 1987 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "Paul & Matilda Wegner Grotto. Ship Bremen 1930. Located on Highway 71, 1/4 mile west of Hwy. 27, 9 miles north of Sparta, WI. One o... |
| Date: | 08 28 1924 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Home Office, Wisconsin Hardware Mutual, Fire and Casualty Companies, Stevens Point, Wis." Exterior view from intersection of the Hard... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Text on the front reads: "Douglas Co. Museum, Superior, Wis." This home housed the Douglas County Museum from 1939 to 1963. They were offered the home of t... |
| Date: | 02 01 1911 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Waupun Public Library, Waupun, Wis." A woman is posing on the sidewalk in front of the library, which was built in 1904 of cut stone ... |
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