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| Description: | A casual, indoor family portrait featuring three generations. The grandmother (seated), holding the child on her lap, is one of the five Oiyotte sisters. I... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Snapshot of Mary Taylor Oiyotte wearing a flowered dress and red sweater. Behind her is a snowbank and the windows of a white dwelling with red and white a... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Snapshot of Mary Taylor Oiyotte standing outdoors in the snow. She is wearing a flowered dress and red sweater. Behind her is a snowbank and the windows of... |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | Kalvelage, Joseph B., House |
| Reference Number: | 78000118 |
Discover the extraordinary among the ordinary in this collection of feature obituaries and related news stories from longtime Wisconsin State Journal reporter George Hesselberg.
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| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | The Vilas Hotel located at the corner of Monona Avenue at the west end of the first block of East Main Street. |
| Community: | Madison |
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| County: | Dane |
| Historic Name: | Belmont Hotel |
| Reference Number: | 89002311 |
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| Description: | A group of youth socialize in an unknown location, possibly a bowling facility. A handbag or bowling bag is sitting on the floor. On the right someone in h... |
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| Description: | A Native American woman is posing outdoors while leaning against an automobile. |
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| Description: | Two of the "Five Oiyotte Sisters" pose together at a daycare. On the left is a child seated in a chair. The sisters attended early childhood classes in Ric... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Engraving of the five-story tall mill erected at the outlet of the Yahara Creek by Leonard J. Farwell. This engraving appears in Statistics of Dane County,... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Zeeland Mills, built in 1862 by John Verstegen. The flour mill was 36' x 50', four stories and had "two runs of stone." It was still operating in 1911. |
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| A new exhibit, “Stories from the Wreckage,” featuring photographs of underwater shipwrecks, will be on display at the Wisconsin Historical Museum. |
| Community: | Boscobel |
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| County: | Grant |
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| Reference Number: | 44135 |
| Community: | Nekimi |
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| County: | Winnebago |
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| Reference Number: | 69138 |
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| Description: | View from street towards three people standing on the second floor balcony of the Schoelkopf house at 137 Langdon St. To the left you can see the edge of ... |
| Date: | 01 1963 |
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| Description: | View from street of businesses along West Main Street, long after the remodeling of the Blied Building, 29 West Main Street, when the top two stories were ... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Frances "Frenchie" Ann Oiyotte Decorah receiving her beauticians license at the age of 18 from the Green Bay Beauty School. The blond woman on the left is ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Two-story building. The first story is a foundation of stone and the second story is sided with wood. Numerous windows are on both stories, and two dormers... |
| Community: | Mequon |
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| County: | Ozaukee |
| Historic Name: | Notre Dame of the Lake |
| Reference Number: | 222325 |
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