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Fred Smith's Concrete park

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Description: Detail of a statue of a man at Fred Smith's Concrete Park.
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Fred Smith's Concrete Park

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Description: View of several sculptures, including depictions of people, angels, and various animals in Fred Smith's Concrete Park.
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Fred Smith's Concrete Park

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Description: View of several sculptures in Fred Smith's Concrete Park.
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Moose Statue at Concrete Park

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Description: Sculpture of a moose at Fred Smith's Concrete Park.
Painting

The Blacksmith Shop

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Description: A town scene featuring the blacksmith shop and horses.
Photograph

Driftwood "Face"

Date: 10 26 1953
Description: A man holds a piece of driftwood thought to resemble the face of an angry monster. Shown from a different perspective, one can imagine the likeness of a de...
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Driftwood Deer Face

Date: 10 26 1953
Description: A man holds a piece of driftwood thought to resemble the head of a deer. Viewed from another perspective, the same piece looks like a monster. Both images ...
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Decoupage Art

Date: 03 02 1954
Description: A large decoupage still life of a flower arrangement made from seed catalog illustrations is displayed on an easel. The artwork was created by Fern Fowler.
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Christmas with Foreign Students

Date: 12 14 1954
Description: Ritva Jantunen (standing right) of Helsinki, Findland displays a symmetrical "himmelis." In Finland, a "himmelis" would be made of straw and oats and place...
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Barbara Kiechler

Date: 1931
Description: Miss Barbara Kiechler, identified as a 4-H Club worker in Coon Valley, posing on a low wall surrounding the Grotto of the Holy Family on the grounds of Vil...
Postcard

Statues in Park

Date: 1940
Description: Two views of two small statues on the grounds of the Holy Ghost Church. The bases on which these statues stand are encrusted with shells, bits of glass, sm...
Photograph

Great Blue Heron in the Backyard

Date: 02 22 2015
Description: A painted, flat, yard sculpture of a blue heron sitting in the snow in the photographer's yard. A few dead plants are sticking up out of the snow.
Postcard

P.L. Wegner Summer Home

Date: 1929
Description: Text on front reads: "P.L. Wegner Summer Home. S.T.H. 71. Sparta, Wisc." The Paul & Matilda Wegner Grotto aka The Glass Chapel, a concrete structure with a...
Postcard

Little Glass Church

Date: 1987
Description: Text on reverse reads: "Paul & Matilda Wegner Grotto. Little Glass Church ca 1930-1934. Located on Highway 71, 1/4 mile west of Hwy. 27, 9 miles north of S...
Postcard

Ship Bremen

Date: 1987
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...

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