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Residential Street Scene

Date: 1900
Description: View across intersection toward houses on both sides of a tree-lined street. A woman is walking down the sidewalk on the left side of the street, and anoth...
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Post Office

Date: 1900
Description: View across street toward the facade and right side of the post office. The main entrance, set to the left, is framed with a neoclassical surround. There a...
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Ceresco School

Date: 1880
Description: View down sidewalk toward the Ceresco School. The building has tall arched windows, doorways, and round decorative brickwork.
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Roosevelt School

Date: 1900
Description: A view of Roosevelt School as seen from across a dirt road. Sidewalks lead to two entrances on the front of the building and an American flag flies from a ...
Photograph

High School

Date: 1900
Description: View of a vine-covered high school facade with a covered side entrance. A pair of poured concrete benches stand in front of the building.
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Ripon High School

Date: 1920
Description: View across lawn toward the window-lined facade of Ripon High School.
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Longfellow School

Date: 1900
Description: View from street toward the facade and right side of Longfellow School. The entrances and side windows extend out from the structure and are made of stone....
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Public Library

Date: 1900
Description: View toward the brick and stone facade of a neoclassical-style public library on a corner.
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Street Scene with the Public Library

Date: 1900
Description: View across intersection toward the library on the left, and houses behind a tree-lined sidewalk on the right.
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A Sign on the Birthplace of the Republican Party

Date: 1854
Description: A plaque on the exterior of the building declares the birthplace of the Republican Party.
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Statue of Abraham Lincoln

Date: 1949
Description: The statue of Lincoln as a young man stands on the Ripon College campus, west of Farr Hall. Alumnus Clarence A. Shaler created the sculpture, delivered in ...
Photograph

Ferris Wheel

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of a Ferris Wheel on Main Street. Men and women are strolling about and many storefronts can be seen.
Print

Republican House Menu

Date: 1954
Description: Back and front of a small folded card menu, with an etching of a quarter view of the exterior of Republican House surrounded by leafy trees on the front co...
Historical Essay

Chase, Warren 1813-1891

Spiritualist, Social Reformer and Politician
Biography of spiritualist, social reformer and politician Warren Chase.
Historical Essay

Notable Fires in Wisconsin

See a list and brief description of significant fires in Wisconsin history.
Historical Essay

La Grange, Col. Oscar H., 1837-1915

Wisconsin Civil War Officer
Read about this ardent abolitionist who rose from company captain to brigadier general.
Historical Essay

Morality in America

Temperance, Abolition and Utopian Communities
Discovery how early Americans founded the abolition and temperance movements to help increase morality
Historical Essay

Wisconsin and the Republican Party

A New Vision for the United States
Discover how a few key political issues in the 1850s gave birth to the Republican Party
Map or Atlas

Map of the City of Ripon Wisconsin

Date: 1930
Description: Map of Ripon, Wisconsin. In the lower left hand corner is a list of points of interest that correspond with numbers on the map. Streets and Mill Pond are l...

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