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Lily Richmond Sitting Outside

Date: 08 23 1946
Description: Aunt Lily Richmond sang African American spirituals for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. Richmond came to Grant County Wisconsin with her parents, fr...
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Lily Richmond and a Woman

Date: 08 23 1946
Description: Aunt Lily Richmond (b.1862), right, with Ollie Greene Lewis.
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Grant County School Contest Winners

Date: 05 02 1913
Description: Group of children pose in doorway of brick building.
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Grant County Spelling, Adding, and Writing Contest

Date: 05 06 1910
Description: Large group of children and adults pose outdoors at the second annual contest.
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Group on Bridge over River

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Description: View from shoreline of group of people posing on a bridge across a small river near Cassville, probably in Grant County. The group of people, three women, ...
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Grant County Fifth Annual Contest

Date: 05 02 1913
Description: Large group of children and adults posing outside a brick building. Some students are posing in open windows.
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First Annual Grant County Spelling, Adding, and Writing Contest

Date: 05 07 1909
Description: Large group of school children and adults posed outside. Some of the students are holding banners.
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Men Leaving for War

Date: 1918
Description: Group of men from Washington County posed with flags leaving for Camp Grant and Army training for service in the first World War.
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Grant County Fourth Annual Contest Winners

Date: 05 05 1912
Description: Large group of children and adults posing outside a brick building. Some students are posing in open windows.
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Grant County Arithmetic, Spelling, and Writing Contest

Date: 1911
Description: Large group of children and adults posed on the lawn outside a large brick building. Some students are posing in open windows.
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Fourth Annual Grant County Contest

Date: 05 05 1912
Description: Large group of children and adults pose on the lawn in front of brick building. Other people look out of open windows.
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Grant County Contest

Date: 1914
Description: Large group of unidentified children and adults pose outside a large brick building. Some students are posing in open windows.
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Grant County School Contest Winners

Date: 05 01 1914
Description: Unidentified children wearing ribbons on the lapels or collars pose on the lawn outside a brick building. Some of the children wear banners that say "Spell...
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Grant County Contest Winners

Date: 1915
Description: Unidentified group of spelling and arithmetic contest winners posing on a lawn outside of a brick building. The children are wearing ribbons on their lapel...
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Grant County Contest Winners

Date: 05 1911
Description: Contest winners pose in doorway of brick building. The children are wearing ribbons on their lapels or collars. Arithmatic winners, first row from left to...
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Grant County Contest Winners

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Description: Contest winners pose outside brick building in doorway. The children are wearing ribbons on their lapels or collars. First row, reading from left to righ...
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Grant County Contest Winners

Date: 05 1912
Description: Group of children pose in front of the entrance to a brick building. First row, reading from left to right: Willie Wieland, Millie Geyer, Florence, Wielan...
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Bliss Alfalfa Club

Date: 07 15 1913
Description: Group portrait of the Bliss Alfafa Club of Emmet County, showing the President Mr. Grant. The group of men, women and children is standing on an unpaved ro...
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Closing Day Exercises in District #15, North Lancaster

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Description: A large group of children and adults pose in a field around trees. There is a tent in the background with flags, and two women sit in a carriage on the lef...
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Denniston House Historic Marker

Date: 10 23 1969
Description: Deane and Don Oelke, front row, owners of the Denniston House Hotel, standing by the historical marker honoring the history of the Denniston House in Cassv...

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