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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Man and woman posing sitting, each holding a child in their lap, and a young man, girl, and a boy holding a toy horn, are posing standing. The group is pos... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of lumber camp with loggers posing in front of a train loaded with logs. |
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| Description: | Group of men posing standing on the snow-covered ground in front of a log building. In the foreground one man is sitting on a pile of logs. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Jake Hubert (wearing the watch chain), and another man, both smoking cigars and wearing hats and standing in front of a painted backdrop... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Oscar (Boney) Halverson smoking a cigar on the front porch of a house. He is wearing a shirt with collar, bow tie, suspenders, and high, laced boots, and ... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of two telephone linemen with some of their equipment in front of a painted backdrop. They are wearing work clothes and hats, and hold ciga... |
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| Description: | Log jam, perhaps on the Black River or the Chippewa River in the Black River Falls area. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Three men pose next to a silo that is under construction, with wood scaffolding around it. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a large group of workers, along with women, children, and dogs, posing on the frame of the barn they are building. |
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| Description: | Man on a ladder painting around a window of the Jackson County Bank. Arch over the intersection partially visible on the right side, as are several people ... |
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| Description: | Sand quarrying in German Hill to obtain fill for use in the business district after a flood. Steam shovel in use. |
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| Description: | Men loading barrels on horse-drawn wagons, probably the Onalaska Pickling and Canning Company on Winnebago Avenue. |
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| Description: | Three lumberjacks posing with their tools and a little girl. From right to left are Jule "Buck" Allen," Neil Hauger, and unidentified. |
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| Description: | Men working to break up a log jam under the Hatfield Wagon Bridge. This is the original Hatfield Bridge, destroyed when the Hatfield Dam failed in the floo... |
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| Description: | Men working to break up a log jam under the Hatfield Bridge. This is the original Hatfield Bridge, destroyed when the Hatfield Dam failed in the flood of 1... |
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| Description: | Two men operating a steam tractor/donkey used to haul logs. Piles of logs are stacked behind them. |
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| Description: | Walking dredge in operation, to rid the county of marshes, probably on the east side of Jackson County. Men working in lower left. |
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| Description: | View across grass towards men, boys, and girl posing on top of a walking dredge. |
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| Description: | Men working on the foundation of a building, possibly laying a foundation for the post-flood business district dam. |
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