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| Date: | 08 31 1946 |
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| Description: | Fiddle player Emil Boulanger played for dances since he was a boy. He played entirely by ear, and on a violin which he made himself. He was born in Dyckesv... |
| Date: | 08 31 1946 |
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| Description: | Either Anton de Beck or Theuphiel Ropson, Belgian-Americans who recorded French and Walloon dialect ballads for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. |
| Date: | 08 31 1946 |
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| Description: | Either Anton de Beck or Theuphiel Ropson, Belgian-Americans who recorded French and Walloon dialect ballads for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Possibly Louis J. Ropson, a farmer and violin maker from Luxemburg who lived in Dyckesville. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | St. Norbert College campus on the Fox River. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Replica of Eleazer William's original log cabin, with trees and a dirt road, five miles south of De Pere on the west bank of the Fox River. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of downtown area, with the Fox River and neighboring suburbs. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | View of three women standing in the foreground looking at the front of the Captain John Cotton house. Also known as "Beaupre", this Greek Revival style hou... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Fort Howard Hospital, Surgeon's Quarters. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Fort Howard hospital marker that reads: "Old Fort Howard • 1816 • This building formerly stood with the surgeons quarters and the powder magazine by the ri... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Masonry, octagon house. Just outside of Green Bay, on Highway CC. It originally was part of a fort group. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Tank cottage. The cottage was built in 1776 by Joseph Roi, a fur trader, who lived in it until 1805 when it was purchased by Jacques P... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of the Tank cottage. The cottage was built about 1803 by Joseph Roi, a fur trader, who lived in it until 1805 when it was purchased by Jacques Porlier... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of the Tank Cottage, aka the Roi-Poerlier-Tank Cottage. The cottage was built in 1776 by Joseph Roi, a fur trader, who lived in it until 1805 when it ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the front of the cottage and the stone wall. Text reads: "Roi 1776, Porlier 1805, Tank 1850." |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Tank cottage. The cottage was built in 1776 by Joseph Roi, a fur trader, who lived in it until 1805 when it was purchased by Jacques Porl... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | The gymnasium for St. Norbert College. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | The Main Hall for St. Norbert College. A cannon is surrounded by shrubs and a lawn in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Boyle Hall at St. Norbert College. |
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