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World War I Draftees

Date: 08 07 1918
Description: Five Sauk County draftees pose on the day they left for Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
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Langlade County Short Course

Date: 1915
Description: Agricultural Extension representative explaining the operation of an incubator to the Boys Short Course in Langlade County.
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County Clerk's Office

Date: 1910
Description: Elmer S. Hall and his daughter, Olive Hall, in the County Clerk's office.
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School of the Brown County Ursulines

Date: 1910
Description: A view down the hallway at the School of the Brown County Ursulines. Mirrors hang on the walls and a statue stands to the right. A staircase is in the bac...
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Harry Elsworth Cole

Date: 1916
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Harry Elsworth Cole (1861-1928), founder and first president of the Sauk County Historical Society, also president of the...
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Prize Winner Seated at Piano

Date: 1919
Description: Portrait of a young woman, the prize winner of the Cook County school-home project in music, sitting at a piano.
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One Room School

Date: 1914
Description: Unidentified one-room school in Racine County. Transportation to better consolidated schools was one significant improvement that motorized vehicles brough...
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Girl Splicing Rope

Date: 1915
Description: Girl standing at work bench with a length of rope. Original caption reads: "Cleo Holt spliced her father's hay rope."
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Women of the Red Cross

Date: 1918
Description: Women of the Dunn County Chapter of the American Red Cross posed with sewing machines in the Stout Institute Building.
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Home Economics Class

Date: 1910
Description: Home economics students (all women) dressed in aprons, dresses, and hats, stand in rows at counters tending pots at the Winnebago County School of Agricult...
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Library at the School of the Brown County Ursulines

Date: 1910
Description: Interior of the library at the School of the Brown County Ursulines, established by the Ursuline Sisters, founded in 1845. Bookshelves and windows line th...
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Cranberry Exhibit at the Milwaukee Fair

Date: 1915
Description: Exhibit at the Milwaukee County Fair devoted to Wisconsin's cranberry production. The exhibit includes cranberry plants, various cranberry varieties, cranb...
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Teachers

Date: 1914
Description: A group of male and female Cook County teachers studying corn, preparatory to taking up this work in their rural schools.
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Captain George E. Sogge

Date: 1911
Description: Waist-up portrait of Captain George Sogge of the Two Rivers Life Saving Station in uniform. His cap bears a U.S. Life Saving Service insignia.
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School Children Eating

Date: 1919
Description: Three girls serving cups of food and bread to children seated at their desks in a Cook County, District 137 classroom. The activity may have been part of t...
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Men Gathered Over Corn Testing

Date: 1913
Description: Four men gathered over agriculture work. Original caption reads: "Assistant County Superintendent Calley explaining corn testing work to the school directo...
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Demonstration on Rope Tying

Date: 1919
Description: Rope tying demonstration for a group of rural school teachers. Original caption reads: "County Supt. Tobin, Country Life Director, and rural school teacher...
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Levi H. Bancroft

Date: 09 10 1910
Description: Campaign poster promoting Levi H. Bancroft as the Republican candidate for Attorney General. The top two-thirds of the poster is a quarter-length portrait ...
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Orland Loomis, High School Graduation and World War I

Date: 1913
Description: Orland Loomis graduation photograph from Mauston High School from 1913. Below, Orland Loomis in his World War I American Expeditionary Forces uniform, duri...
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Wisconsin Potato Growers Association

Date: 1913
Description: Exhibition of potatoes. The sign on the far right over a bin of potato's reads: "Green Mountain, grown by S.J. Uhrenholdt, Hayward, Sawyer County, Listed w...

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