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| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | Fourth Street School |
| Reference Number: | 84003720 |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored postcard of the high school obscured by trees. The red brick building has two-stories with a bell tower. Caption reads: "High School, Elroy, W... |
| Community: | Fort Atkinson |
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| County: | Jefferson |
| Historic Name: | Curtis, David W. and Jane, House |
| Reference Number: | 09000309 |
| Community: | Madison |
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| County: | Dane |
| Historic Name: | Madison Vocational School (Additional Documentation and Boundary Decrease) |
| Reference Number: | 100009436 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from street of the State Bank with a corner entrance. The brick building has two-stories, with a set of wooden stairs on one side leading up ... |
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| Description: | A row of resort cottages as seen through trees in a wooded area. The buildings each have two stories and a gabled roof. The middle structure is a church, a... |
| Community: | Madison |
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| County: | Dane |
| Historic Name: | United States Post Office and Federal Courthouse |
| Reference Number: | 02001443 |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | "Doomed Demons" by Eustace L. Adams, part of the Air Combat Stories for Boys series published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1932 and 1946. The cover art is b... |
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| Description: | Black and white close-up portrait of one of the "Five Oiyotte Sissters." |
| Community: | Florence |
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| County: | Florence |
| Historic Name: | Florence Town Hall |
| Reference Number: | 14000169 |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Cole Hotel. The building features two stories, a painted sign, and a balcony. On the utility pole, there is an advertisement for the 1921 f... |
| John Odin Jensen and R. Richard Wagner have received the 2020 Book of Merit Award. |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | Marshall & Ilsley Bank Building |
| Reference Number: | 100007170 |
| Community: | Newark |
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| County: | Rock |
| Historic Name: | How-Beckman Mill |
| Reference Number: | 77000049 |
From magical creatures of the old country to legends of the mysterious and macabre, this lore is a record of the stories people held on to and the customs, foods, and cures that filled their lives. Peruse these pages and discover a new history of the people and places of the old north.
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| Community: | De Pere |
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| County: | Brown |
| Historic Name: | Krause, Julius, Store Building |
| Reference Number: | 14000502 |
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| Description: | One of the "Five Oiyotte Sisters" in the back seat of a limosine. |
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| Description: | On Shakerag Street. Two houses, both of stone, behind a wood fence and a low stone wall along a sidewalk. The house on the right is two stories, the left ... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Cameron High School. The building features three stories, a bell tower, and a flag pole. A home is in the distance. |
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| Description: | View across road of house and yard. The house has three-stories and latticework, and a roofed porch with a bench. |
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