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Main Street

Date: 1915
Description: Text on front reads: "Main Street, Spooner, Wis." Unpaved main street with many businesses on both sides. Automobiles and trucks are on the street or parke...
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Main Street

Date: 06 26 1929
Description: Text on front reads: "Main Street, Spooner, Wis." Unpaved main street with many businesses on both sides. Automobiles and trucks are on the street or parke...
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Greetings from Spooner

Date: 1960
Description: Text on front reads: "Greetings from Spooner, Wis." Text on reverse: "Looking north on this aerial view one can see the State Fish Hatchery in the foregrou...
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Greetings from Spooner

Date: 1947
Description: Text on front reads: "Greetings - Spooner, Wis." A country road with a guard fence descends into a valley between tree-covered hills. The trees are showing...
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Country House Motel

Date: 1963
Description: Text on front reads: "Country House Motel." On reverse: "Country House Motel. Northwest's Finest - Highways 53 and 63. Room Phones - Color TV - Air-Conditi...
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Kilkare Lodge Lobby

Date: 1948
Description: The lobby, with a stone fireplace at the Kilkare Lodge on Birch Island Lake. There are stuffed deer on mantels flanking the fireplace, and on the mantel ab...
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Kilkare Lodge Dining Room

Date: 1948
Description: The dining room in Kilkare Lodge on Birch Island Lake. Windows line both sides of the room. Two women are sitting at tables at the far end of the room near...
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Cabin at Kilkare Lodge

Date: 1935
Description: A log cabin at Kilkare Lodge.
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Spooner Rodeo

Date: 1961
Description: A crowd of people in the background behind a fence are watching a man bull riding at the Spooner Rodeo. Two rodeo clowns are moving in front of the bull.
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Sewer Shoveling

Date: 1935
Description: As part of a Wisconsin unemployment project, workmen dig a sewer trench by hand for the city of Spooner.
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Fisherman by River

Date: 
Description: Fisherman cooking on campfire at the edge of a river.
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State High School Basketball Tournament Teams

Date: 02 14 1956
Description: Group portrait of the Spooner High School basketball team, the Railroaders.
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Delivery of Auto Buggies

Date: 03 23 1909
Description: Five International Harvester Auto Buggies with men sitting inside are on a dirt road in front of the Spooner Lumber Company. Caption reads: "Delivery of I....
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Omaha Depot

Date: 1906
Description: Exterior view of the Omaha Depot. Caption reads: "Omaha Depot, Spooner, Wis."
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Indian Head Sandwich Shop and Filling Station

Date: 1941
Description: Indian Head Sandwich Shop, filling station, and rest rooms.
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View of Spooner, Wisconsin

Date: 1905
Description: View of a street scene, with the Spooner State Bank in the foreground, and the William Busch Meat Market and a confectionary further down the street. Capti...
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Railroad Station and Yards

Date: 1888
Description: Elevated view of a railroad station and yards.
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Trolley Inn

Date: 1941
Description: The Trolley Inn, diner, overnight cabins, and gas pumps, located on state highways 53 & 63, one mile south of Spooner. The juxtaposition of the former tro...
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Map of Spooner, Wisconsin Lakes Area

Date: 1941
Description: This 1941 map covers Washburn County, Wisconsin, as well as western Sawyer, eastern Burnett, and northeastern Polk counties. It shows the locations of tour...
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View of Spooner, Wisconsin

Date: 1905
Description: View of a residential street. Caption reads: "A Residence Street in Spooner, Wisc."

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