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Horse-Drawn Carriage with Children and School Bus

Date: 1975
Description: A horse-drawn enclosed carriage originally used to transport children to and from school in 1915. The carriage has several young children as passengers, wh...
Photograph

Men Pushing Trash Cans Towards Garbage Truck

Date: 1973
Description: View from lawn in a residential neighborhood of three men pushing trash cans on hand carts towards a garbage truck. Behind the garbage truck is an Internat...
Photograph

Man Emptying Trash Barrel into Garbage Truck

Date: 1973
Description: An African-American man is dumping a barrel of trash into an International Harvester Scout with a dump body driven by another African-American man. They ar...
Photograph

Postal Carrier and Route Truck

Date: 1970
Description: An African-American postal carrier is standing on the sidewalk with mail in a rolling cart. He is wearing a winter postal employee uniform and a hat. Behin...
Photograph

Depot and Train

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Description: View down railroad tracks towards depot with railroad train pulling into the station. Passengers are waiting on the platform, and other people are standing...
Photograph

Depot and Train

Date: 1925
Description: View along railroad tracks towards the Rewey railroad station. A locomotive spewing smoke into the air is approaching the depot, and passengers are standin...
Photograph

Depot and Train

Date: 
Description: View down platform toward the Waunakee depot and an arriving train. Freight cars are on the tracks on the left. A group of men are standing on the platform...
Photograph

The Famous Narrow Gauge Train

Date: 1921
Description: A passenger train stopped at the depot. Three men are standing on the left, one of them pushing a cart. A row of milk cans is along the side of the depot b...
Photograph

Farmer's Market

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Description: Elevated view of the farmer's market on East Washington Avenue near storefronts. Many horse-drawn buggies and wagons are lined up on both sides of the aven...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 482-488

Date: 
Description: A man in motion moves upon good reason.

To create disorder
he must stop and settle down.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 719-726

Date: 
Description: That cottage all with melting roses —

It was such fun to think ahead of it,
to condition all that air with smokesuds
and pick the mud out of o...
Photograph

Buggy Ride

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Description: A man and two women pose in a four seat buggy. They are wearing suits, dresses and hats. Buildings and a fence appear in the background.
Photograph

Family Driving

Date: 1903
Description: George S. Parker and family seated in their car, one of the first automobiles in Janesville. Behind them is a couple in another car.
Photograph

Roadside Marketeers

Date: 10 1983
Description: Milton and Adeline Retzlaff took time off from serving a steady stream of customers to pose with their merchandise.
Photograph

Workmen at Mechta

Date: 1927
Description: Workmen excavate at an archaeological site at Mechta. M. Bebruge is the man in the foreground. A man sitting on the ground in the background on the right i...
Photograph

Alonzo Pond and M. Debruge

Date: 11 12 1926
Description: Alonzo Pond and colleague, M. Debruge, posing for a photograph at Mechta. M. Debruge has a cigarette in a holder in his hand, and both men are wearing coat...
Photograph

State Street

Date: 1918
Description: Street view of the north side of State Street, west of 6th Street. The second frame house from the right was once occupied as an office by Victor L. Berger...
Painting

Expedition with Supply Cart

Date: 
Description: An illustration created using cutout photographs and white, gray and black paint on cream colored paper. The scene depicts, in profile, a man pulling a loa...
Photograph

Gathering Crowd

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of crowd of men, women and children, gathered for some unidentified occasion, standing in the street. There is also a group of people gathere...
Photograph

Men Posing in the New Street

Date: 1889
Description: Elevated view of group gathered and posed on a new street. Behind the group is a large pile of lumber, wooden sidewalks, and what appear to be newly-constr...

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