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Wisconsin State Journal Employees

Date: 12 1947
Description: Two young paper carriers for the Wisconsin State Journal with their news bags.
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Creamery

Date: 1912
Description: A two-story creamery. The building features an attached garage, tall chimney, and gabled roof.
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Steelworkers Costume Party

Date: 12 20 1947
Description: Members of Local 1114, United Steelworkers of America (Harnischfeger Corporation) at a holiday costume party.
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Depot and Creamery

Date: 1913
Description: The train depot with a creamery next door.
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Cheese Factory

Date: 1922
Description: Exterior of a two-story cheese factory. The building features a set of stairs leading to the second-floor entrance and three chimneys. There is a large pil...
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Borden Condensery

Date: 
Description: Exterior view of the Borden Condensery and grounds. Snow covers the ground. The right side of the building has two doors elevated above the driveway for a ...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 102

Date: 
Description: He was taught restraint and patriotic fiction,
letting automation by
to wipe the chimneys clean of issues
and make horizons in the sky
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Creamery

Date: 1911
Description: A view of the creamery and a residence on its second floor. A woman and two children at the foot of the stairs. A one lane road winding up the hill.
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James Mine

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Description: Exterior view of James Mine with a field and fence in the foreground. Tram tracks lead from the tall building to large piles of rocks. There are steep stai...
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Stairway at Ravenswood Beach

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Description: View up steep stone stairway with stone walls on the sides at the Ravenswood Hotel.
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A Cabin at The Pines Hotel

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Description: Guest log cabin on the side of a hill at the Pines Hotel, surrounded by pines.
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Thomas Jefferson Memorial

Date: 1950
Description: View of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial from the street, with people walking, sitting and standing on the sidewalk and on the stairs leading up to the memori...
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Seneca Scenic View

Date: 1912
Description: A scenic view over rolling hills with a road leading to the horizon. There are trees, fields and farm buildings on the left. In the foreground on the right...
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Russian Barn

Date: 1918
Description: A Russian man is standing with his horse in front of a large barn. The barn has an arched balcony above the double doors. Around the barn half-buried in th...
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Hotel

Date: 
Description: View across front lawn of a two-story hotel with porches and balconies. An addition built on the right side has a screened-in porch.
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Construction at World Trade Center Site

Date: 1969
Description: Several older buildings are visible in the foreground, while the framework of a World Trade Center Tower is visible in the background.
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Auditorium Hotel

Date: 1911
Description: The Auditorium Hotel, a three-story building with a turret and stairs to the main floor entrances. A wrap-around balcony is on the main floor. Barrels unde...
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Comic Portrait of Ed Sachs, Harold Gauer, and D. Reid Ross

Date: 
Description: Humorous picture of the "Joe Must Go" group in funny outfits sitting on a stairway. The "Joe Must Go" group was trying to get enough signatures to get Joe ...
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Main Street

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Description: A view down Main Street. Shops are on either side of the street. Farmer's Bank is down the hill on the right.
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M.H. Bekkedal Warehouse

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Description: M.H. Bekkedale and E. Rosenwald and Brothers Leaf Tobacco warehouse. There is a boxcar on tracks near the warehouse, and a bluff in the far background.

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