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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The Monroe Palmer Octagon house, built about 1852 at Neshonoc, Wisconsin, and moved to this site in 1890. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Zulime Taft Garland, wife of Hamlin Garland, holds their infant daughter Mary Isabel while sitting in a rocking chair. |
| Date: | 11 11 1936 |
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| Description: | H.W. Griswold stands beside a McCormick-Deering 8-can milk cooler. |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of writer Hamlin Garland at his family home in West Salem. The woman with him has been tentatively identified as his daughter, Mary Isabe... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View down middle of unpaved Main Street. There are large trees along the sidewalk on the left. Businesses line both sides of the street, and there is a sta... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View down center of Main Street with cobblestones. There is a railroad crossing in the foreground. Service garages are on the left and right corners. Parke... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View down middle of street towards central business section. On the left is a building with a belfry. Cars and businesses line both sides of the street, pe... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across water of a stone building next to an earthen dam on the La Crosse River. There is an archway on the side of the building at the river ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View across set of railroad tracks of a canning factory. There are a number of warehouses and outbuildings. Trees are on a hill in the background. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks and road of the front of the Hotel May. The hotel has a wrap-around porch and balcony. Men in suits are relaxing in chairs on t... |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from across a road of the Affiliated Church. An arched stained glass window is in the front on the left. Tall rectangular stained glass ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View along railroad tracks of the depot, with an approaching train coming from the opposite direction. Two men stand on the platform next to the building. ... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | View down path of Memorial Park. A pavilion in the center is surrounded by bushes and plants. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View down middle of Main Street paved with cobblestones. There is a railroad crossing at the far end, and the ridge of a hill in the far background. A barb... |
| Date: | 07 18 1945 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from front right of a man cultivating corn in stripped-cropped field using a Farmall H tractor and HM-238 Farmall cultivator. In the bac... |
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| Description: | Eugene W. Olson and his dog, Travis, check the mailbox on a road near West Salem. In the background are fields on a hill. |
| Date: | 10 13 1978 |
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| Description: | Albert Hammes, of West Salem, and his young helper standing in a field spearing picked tobacco on stakes to be dried in the barn. |
| Date: | 10 13 1978 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of Albert Hammes, smoking a cigarette and tending to his tobacco crops. The flower tops have to be picked before harvesting to keep ... |
| Date: | 06 14 1862 |
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| Description: | Letterhead featuring a scene of men and women raising their hands in the air. The two men in front are holding a sickle and the American flag, other people... |
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