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Public School

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Description: Exterior of the two-story public school.
Photograph

Rephotographic Pair: Public School

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Description: A vintage view and a modern view of the Public School, presented as a pair.
Photograph

Mount Ida Public School

Date: 1921
Description: Exterior of the public schoolhouse, which features a bell tower and two arched entrances.
Photograph

Norwegian Church and Public School

Date: 1912
Description: View across road of a Norwegian Church, and a Public School next door. The church building features a tall steeple, lancet arched windows, gable roof, and ...
Photograph

Public School

Date: 
Description: Exterior of a one-room schoolhouse surrounded by rural landscape.
Painting

Lower Locks at Grand Chute

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Description: Lower locks on Grand Chute, Wisconsin, on the Fox River.
Photograph

Panorama of Madison

Date: 1930
Description: Panoramic elevated view to the northeast from the Capitol Square.
Photograph

Painted Scenery Backdrop

Date: 1929
Description: A backdrop from the set of the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper." The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the R...
Photograph

Rock Studio in Durwards Glen

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Description: Rock Studio across a field, surrounded by trees.
Photograph

Jens Jensen and Youths

Date: 1949
Description: Landscape architect Jens Jensen and youth from the Madison Youth Council at Glenwood Children's park on their clean-up work day. The park was planned and d...
Photograph

Tobacco Field

Date: 07 1936
Description: Straight rows of tobacco plants flourishing in a large field. There are farm buildings and a windmill in the background. Utility poles on the are on the ri...
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1922
Description: Exterior of a schoolhouse with a bell tower and flag pole. In the background is a farm, and fields and hills. A sign on the side of the tower says "1903".
Photograph

TD-18A — Land Clearing

Date: 1950
Description: View across field towards a man driving a TD-18A. Subject: "TD-18A — Land Clearing." Where Taken: "MidW." Information with photograph reads: "TD-18A Marvin...
Poster

Testing the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc...
Map or Atlas

General Development Plan for Nakoma, Madison, Wis.

Date: 1920
Description: This map shows a plat of the area, numbered blocks and lots, local streets, roads, parks, Nakoma Country Club golf course, and landscaping. The map is orie...
Print

Testing of the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1915
Description: Copy of chromolithograph of the testing of the first reaping machine at Steele's Tavern, W. Virginia." The scene includes racist depictions of enslaved Afr...
Photograph

TD-14A — Land Clearing

Date: 1950
Description: View of two men working filling gullies and leveling land. Subject: "TD-14A — Land Clearing." Where Taken: "MidW." Information with photograph reads: "Owne...
Photograph

Power

Date: 1950
Description: Aerial view of a hydroelectric power plant owned by Northern States Power Company located on the Chippewa River. A highway bridge and a railroad bridge spa...
Photograph

Bird's Eye View

Date: 1926
Description: View from hill looking down at homes and businesses in town. A bridge goes over the Kickapoo River. The depot and railroad tracks and Main Street are behin...
Photograph

Panorama of Madison

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view to the south from the Capitol Square. The large building on the left is the original first National Bank that was demolished to make way for ...

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