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Blue Mounds at a Distance

Date: 
Description: View looking down hill of several buildings. More hills are in the far background. Caption reads: "Blue Mounds at a Distance, Altitude 1760 FT."
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Men and Effigy Mounds

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Description: A small group of men, some of them carrying bags, walk in a field among effigy mounds.
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Blue Mounds Farm

Date: 1873
Description: View down a rocky rural lane near West Blue Mounds. Zigzag stake and rider split-rail fencing enclose a farmstead, which includes a barn, a frame house, ha...
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Bird's-Eye View of Blue Mounds

Date: 1930
Description: Bird's-eye view town. There are barns, homes, a church's steeple and a lumberyard.
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Abandoned Threshing Machine

Date: 07 31 1960
Description: An abandoned threshing machine rests in a rural field.
Postcard

Little Norway

Date: 1948
Description: Colorized postcard of a scene at Little Norway. A man sits on a wagon chassis. He is wearing an ethnic costume. Various buildings are visible surrounded by...
Postcard

Scene at Little Norway

Date: 07 20 1950
Description: Photographic postcard of a scene at Little Norway. A log building stands to the left and the chassis of a wagon to the right. Text below reads: "Scene at L...
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Stacks of Shredded Corn Stalks

Date: 1993
Description: Six large mounds of rolled up corn stalks are in a row on a field lightly covered in snow.
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Road into the Woods West of Blue Mounds

Date: 04 28 2015
Description: View down a gravel path leading into a forest. The trees are bare of leaves, but the grass is green. A wood marker is at the intersection of a dirt path on...
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Farm Road between Fields

Date: 12 01 1962
Description: A farm road between fields in late sunlight, looking towards Mounds Creek in the vicinity of CTH F.
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Wooded Valley

Date: 1962
Description: Elevated view over wooded farmland valley. In the far distance on top of the hill are farm buildings.
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Dynamite Explosion

Date: 1955
Description: View across field of a dynamite explosion occurring between several mounds of dirt. A digger stands next to the dirt mound on the right.
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Machines Digging up the Ground

Date: 1955
Description: Slightly elevated view of a truck, crane and other digging equipment being used to dig up ground near a field. Several mounds of dirt are behind the machin...
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Man Driving Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1900
Description: Three men are standing near a man, seen from the rear, on a horse-drawn McCormick binder on the side of a hill. Sheaves of wheat are standing in mounds in ...
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Aztalan State Park

Date: 
Description: View of Aztalan State Park site when it was called Aztalan Mound Park.
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Shell Mound

Date: 1930
Description: Poppies are blooming in a large field with a hill in the background. The photographer identifies the hill as a shell mound. The shell mound is likely the l...
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Aztalan State Park

Date: 1945
Description: Field prior to the park's reconstruction, with a fence in the foreground. A river is at the bottom of the hill.
Postcard

Farmer with Cows

Date: 02 1910
Description: Farmer and two cows standing outside near a barn in winter.
Photograph

Mound at Trade Lake

Date: 1927
Description: Three men and two women sit on top of a mound near Trade Lake.
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Syverud Farm

Date: 1967
Description: Stereograph of an elevated view of a farm. A man is sitting on the hill in the foreground with his arm on one knee, gazing at the view. There is a house, p...

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