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| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View from railroad tracks through covered railroad tunnel in hill. A sign on a telephone pole on the right reads: "Private Property / Thoroughfare / Keep O... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the "Dell Queen" entering the Narrows via Devil's Elbow as Hattie and Nellie Bennett look on from an overlook on the shoreline. |
| Date: | 08 15 1929 |
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| Description: | A crew of telephone line repairmen working on a rural line with their International truck parked below them. An IH truck, with storage compartments sitting... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Group of people posing on a trolley car, which is pulling a flat car loaded with a McCormick grain binder and mower as part of an event culminating the "Cr... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Map of Dane County rural delivery in Madison and the town of Westport. |
| Date: | 06 30 1931 |
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| Description: | Ray's Barbecue and Standard Oil Gas Station, on the Oregon Road (just beyond the French Village which was located at 2323 S. Park Street). |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Telephone linemen working on scaffolds at different levels on a telephone pole as they install line in a rural area. Their International Harvester truck is... |
| Date: | 01 13 1956 |
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| Description: | Edna Kern picking up the mail at the roadside mailbox. |
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| Description: | View of rural Blue Mounds, with a two-lane, paved road. The caption at the bottom reads: "East View of Blue Mounds, Wis. Elevation, 1760 ft.". |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from fork in road of Martin's Tavern in Chamberlain. There is a horse and carriage with driver on the left. Three men sit or stand in front of the tav... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A lane in Ephraim with power lines lining the road. There is a body of water in the distance with houses on the far shoreline. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Wade House. The Wade House, one of the earliest stagecoach inns in Wisconsin, was built between 1847 and 1851 by Sylvanus Wade. It became... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of Holy Hill, with a field and the Hillside Hotel in the foreground. Captions read: "America's Favorite Place of Pilgrimage" and "The Holy Hill and Hi... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Che-ne-qua Hotel on Pine Lake. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Wisconsin Dells including the Wisconsin River and the dam and generating power plant. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Lake Delton and shoreline including resort areas. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Lake Delview Hotel, the golf course, and the surrounding countryside. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View down hill toward two cars passing each other along the Lincoln Highway near Bedford, Pennsylvania. The Lincoln Highway was conceived in 1912 by Carl F... |
| Date: | 10 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Scene of wrecked car and semi-trailer truck in front of Alma's Inn, 5068 Highway 12-13. Injured in the accident were five men en route to work at the Badge... |
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