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Two Women Play Croquet

Date: 1874
Description: Two women playing croquet in yard with large Victorian brick house in background that has brackets, two round windows at top and bay window at bottom; latt...
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Sun Prairie Artist Rachel Grimm

Date: 12 08 1948
Description: Rachel Grimm, retired school teacher, enters the annual state-wide rural art exhibit held annually in cooperation with the Farm and Home Week program spons...
Historical Essay

Sabin, Ellen Clara (1850-1949)

A Wisconsin Educator
Read about the Wisconsinite who was one of the first women to attend the University of Wisconsin and became the president of Milwaukee-Downer College.
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Bank of Sun Prairie

Date: 10 18 1935
Description: View from street towards a woman walking down the sidewalk in front of the Bank of Sun Prairie building, with Stoehr's variety store. There is a shoe store...
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Students Receiving Hearing Test

Date: 04 27 1947
Description: Margaret Hughey taking an individual audiometer test given by Roger Mass at the Sun Prairie High School. In the front row of students, listening in, are Ro...
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New Third Grade Teacher in Sun Prairie

Date: 11 15 1960
Description: Third grade teacher Diane Schmitt in front of her Sun Prairie class where Eddie Savering is showing the class how to polish scuffed-up shoes.
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Dorothea Schon, Scupltress

Date: 02 20 1949
Description: Dorothea Schon, Sun Prairie artist, at work in her studio on her sculpture of Christ the King. When it is completed, the four and a half by three foot wood...
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Pecan Club, Sun Prairie Snowbound Party

Date: 02 1881
Description: Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of fifteen well-dressed men and women. Caption identifies them as members of the Pecan Club, attending the Su...
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Ernie Terhall House

Date: 08 08 1954
Description: Portrait of Sharon Terhall in her bedroom, complete with two twin beds with reading lamps on headboards, a desk, a wallpapered wall, and upholstered chairs...
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Renk - Tomlin Wedding

Date: 05 28 1958
Description: Portrait of Richard Tomlin and Susan Renk during the reception on the Renk farm after their wedding at Sacred Hearts Catholic Church in Sun Prairie.
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The C.H. Bird Home

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Description: The C.H. Bird home, with a carriage and a group of ladies in front of it. The front seat of the carriage is Miss Ada Bird. Beside the carriage, stands he...
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Renk - Tomlin Wedding

Date: 06 28 1958
Description: Elevated view of guests greeting the bride, Susan Renk, and groom, Richard Tomlin, at the wedding reception on the lawn of the Renk farm in rural Sun Prair...
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New Third Grade Teacher in Sun Prairie

Date: 11 15 1960
Description: New Sun Prairie third grade teacher Diane Schmitt shops for groceries on her way home from school. The cashier is Carl Conrad and the man in the background...
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New Third Grade Teacher in Sun Prairie

Date: 11 15 1960
Description: New third grade Sun Prairie teacher Diane Schnitt meets banker Tom Tubbs and mayor Joseph N. Hanley.
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Sun Prairie Corn Festival

Date: 08 19 1961
Description: Mary Heisler of Sun Prairie carefully eats an ear of corn at the annual corn festival.
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Renk - Tomlin Wedding

Date: 06 28 1958
Description: As the bride, Susan Renk, is walking up the steps of the Sacred Hearts Catholic Church in Sun Prairie, her father, Wilbur Renk, is assisting by holding up ...
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Renk - Tomlin Wedding

Date: 06 28 1958
Description: Richard Tomlin and Susan Renk standing with members of their wedding party before the Rev. Herbert A. Waldkirch who officiated at the wedding ceremony in S...
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New Third Grade Teacher in Sun Prairie

Date: 11 15 1960
Description: Third grade students gather around teacher Diane Schmitt's desk before school begins. Students are Jerry Tennant, Cathy Kvalheim, Vicky Seltzner, Suzanne N...
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New Third Grade Teacher in Sun Prairie

Date: 11 15 1960
Description: Members of Diane Schmitt's Sun Prairie school's third grade are greeted by Volunteer Fire Department chief Ben Blaschka during a tour of the fire station. ...
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Pierceville Mothers' Club Players

Date: 01 18 1932
Description: Pierceville Mothers' Club players in costume for the play "Sons of Soil," taken on the stage of the Sun Prairie parish hall after the group won the first D...

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