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| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Historic site marker commemorating the first permanent home in Baraboo. The inscription reads, "On this site in 1840, the first permanent home in Baraboo ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Monument for Yellow Thunder, Chief of the Winnebago tribe. The inscriptions read, "Yellow Thunder, Chief of the Winnebago, born 1774 - died 1874. And his s... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | View from the east bluff of lake with a motorboat. A geologic pinnacle juts out from the lower left of the image. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Rock cairn for Yellow Thunder, chief of the Winnebago. |
| Date: | 03 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated group portrait of Governor Goodland signing a scrapbook prepared by the Little Friends of America, Baraboo children's organization, for t... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The free tourist campground in Baraboo. Although similar free facilities were clustered in resort areas, by 1926 the Highway Commission engineer could rep... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Free public campground at Baraboo, one of 200 such facilities then made available to the traveling public by Wisconsin municipalities. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, the Republican Party presidential candidate aboard the campaign train, making a stop in Baraboo. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | A trail leading into Parfrey's Glen in Devil's Lake State Park. Parfrey's Glen was Wisconsin's first State Natural Area in 1952. |
| Date: | 11 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Accused bigamist, June Benson, shown with her current husband, Corporal Robert Benson, and her son Chucky. |
| Date: | 11 02 1945 |
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| Description: | A house at the Baraboo Hercules Powder Plant with Corporal Robert Benson standing in the doorway. He brought his wife from Florida to live here with her so... |
| Date: | 11 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Toddler Chucky Benson, whose mother, June, is being charged with bigamy and is fighting extradition to New York. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Herman Taylor family camping at Devil's Lake. There is a moving train in the background on railroad tracks along the shoreline of the ... |
| Date: | 02 27 1948 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Mrs. Wilson (Audrey) Fahlberg and her children, Karen, 8, and Wilson Jr., 4 at their trailer home at Badger Village. Mrs. Wilson is the p... |
| Date: | 05 02 1948 |
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| Description: | A group of men gathered in front of an airplane at the inauguration of Wisconsin Central Airline service to the Baraboo-Portage area. The men are local off... |
| Date: | 08 14 1948 |
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| Description: | Baraboo marching band leading the procession in Sauk County's Wisconsin Centennial Parade. |
| Date: | 08 14 1948 |
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| Description: | Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus float in Sauk County's Wisconsin Centennial Parade on street downtown with a large crowd in the street and park... |
| Date: | 08 14 1948 |
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| Description: | Prairie du Sac's 110th birthday float in Sauk County's Wisconsin Centennial Parade in downtown near park. |
| Date: | 08 14 1948 |
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| Description: | Spring Green's float entitled "The Century Limited," in Sauk County's Wisconsin Centennial Parade. |
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