Date: | 12 10 1951 |
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Description: | Peshtigo Fire Cemetery marker, shown on the site. |
Date: | 1871 |
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Description: | Aftermath of Peshtigo fire on October 8, 1871. Devastated landscape with deer carcass in foreground. The Peshtigo fire razed the small town of approximatel... |
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Description: | Families huddled in a field in the Sugar Bushes, attempting to escape the Peshtigo Fire. |
Date: | 1867 |
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Description: | Mill dam and sash factory. "The Northwester Gateway. Excursion to Lake Superior, June 1867. Photographed and Published by J. Carbutt, 131 Lake St., Chicago... |
Date: | 1871 |
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Description: | Ruins of building showing smokestack still standing after the Peshtigo fire. A group of men are standing on the left. |
Date: | 1871 |
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Description: | Street scene showing destruction after Peshtigo fire. |
Date: | 1871 |
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Description: | Fire destruction near railroad tracks after Peshtigo fire. There are wheel carriages from destroyed boxcars on and near the tracks. |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | Loggers breaking up a log jam in the Peshtigo River area. |
Date: | 1871 |
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Description: | Photographic print of a wood engraving of a schoolhouse and children in Peshtigo. From the book "Sketch of the Great Fire In Peshtigo." |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Log pond with two lumberjacks walking on the floating logs and sorting them in the Peshtigo River area. |
Date: | 1871 |
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Description: | Drawing of the Peshtigo Fire, showing people seeking refuge in the Peshtigo River. |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | Employees of the Wisconsin and Michigan Railroad posing in the roundhouse. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | View down platform towards the Wisconsin and Michigan Railroad. A box car of the Minneapolis, Saint Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad is sitting on a rail s... |
Date: | 1940 |
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Description: | A view of a marker on highway 41 designating the half way point between the Equator and the North Pole. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | A view of the lighthouse and dock office at Peshtigo Harbor. |
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Description: | View across water towards the Badger Paper Mills, founded by E.A. Meyer. Caption reads: "Badger Paper Mills, Peshtigo, Wis." |
Date: | 1903 |
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Description: | Superintendent J.N. Harrison and dispatcher W.H. Wright are seated at desks in the Wisconsin & Michigan Railroad office. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | View of the Peshtigo Company sawmill including the old wooden dam in the foreground. There are logs in the water on the left. |
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