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Prize-Winning Cabbage

Date: 09 28 1895
Description: Five-acre cabbage field of Martin Anderson near Grantsburg, with several frame houses in the background. Mr. Anderson is holding a prize-winning head of ca...
Painting

The Fur-Trader's House on Yellow Lake, Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: This house was located among the Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians. Here Hölzlhuber and his companions took shelter in an uncomfortable stable one night, after an ...
Photograph

Bar and Bartenders

Date: 1886
Description: Saloon interior of two bartenders standing behind the bar. On the bar is a variety of glassware and bottles. On the wall behind the bar are three large mir...
Photograph

Starch Factory

Date: 09 28 1895
Description: Elevated view of wagons filled with potatoes parked near a starch factory. In 1895, 125,000 bushels of potatoes were converted into starch. Railroad tracks...
Map or Atlas

Map of Brunett's Falls and Adjacent Country : Chippewa River, Wisconsin

Date: 1867
Description: This 1867 map shows the Chippewa River in northern Chippewa County, Wisconsin, from just north of Cornell to Jim Falls. Covering portions of the towns of A...
Photograph

Elizabeth David

Date: 1878
Description: Hand-tinted, round-framed portrait of a woman.
Photograph

George David

Date: 1878
Description: Round-framed portrait of a man with a beard.
Photograph

Elizabeth, Edward, and Benjamin Styles

Date: 1880
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a family, with a child standing between seated parents. These are Benjamin Woolsey Styles, his wife Eliza...
Photograph

Hettie and James Albee

Date: 1885
Description: Waist-up, vignetted portrait of a couple. These are James Albee and his wife Hettie (nee Letier).
Photograph

James and Martha Hunter

Date: 1886
Description: Quarter-length portrait of a couple. These are James Hunter and his wife Martha (nee Mero).

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