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Street Scene

Date: 1924
Description: View down commercial street. The shops are: Crandon Baking Company, a drugstore, the Hotel Hellstrom and Livery, a restaurant, First National Bank, a baker...
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1924
Description: View across street of cars parked at the curb in front of stores and shops. The shops include: Citizens State Bank, Crandon post office, a grocery store, a...
Photograph

District School House in the Woods

Date: 08 01 1895
Description: Exterior view of the district school house property, with a young boy standing on the front steps. There is a hand-pump on a wood platform in front of the ...
Photograph

Potato Field in Forest

Date: 08 01 1895
Description: A field of potato plants, with a forest in the background. A man is leaning against a basswood or linden tree that stands approximately eighty-five feet ta...
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Men in Field with Corn and Pumpkins

Date: 08 01 1895
Description: Men posing in Albert Smith's three-acre cornfield. Two men stand near the fence, and three others are in the background holding up their hats.
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Women and Children in Substandard Housing

Date: 1956
Description: Woman and four children seated in front of a makeshift tent that serves as their home. There is a washtub and washboard in the foreground and laundry hangs...
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Shack in the Woods

Date: 1956
Description: Young man and a dog in the yard outside a dilapidated shack in the woods that serves as a dwelling. Laundry hangs from a line at left.
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Children at Dilapidated Home

Date: 1956
Description: Five children seated in front of a dilapidated shack that serves as a dwelling. Three dogs roam in the front yard.
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W.H. Rogers Lumber Co. Camp

Date: 1900
Description: Lumber camp group, W.H. Rogers Lumber Co., near Nashville.
Postcard

Street Scene

Date: 1905
Description: View looking up unpaved street and sidewalk of town, with dwellings on both sides, and a forested hill in the background. Caption reads: "Crandon, Wis."
Postcard

Office & Residence of Dr. Crawford, Dentist

Date: 1910
Description: Photographic postcard showing the dentist office and residence of Dr. Crawford. There is a sign on a post in front for Dr. Crawford, Dentist, and signs on ...
Postcard

Keith & Hiles Mill

Date: 1910
Description: Colorized photographic postcard showing Keith & Hiles lumber mill. There is a tall building on the right that appears to be a silo. Caption reads: "Keith &...
Postcard

North Shore of Stone Lake. Planets (Near Crandon) Wis.

Date: 1920
Description: Colorized postcard view. Caption reads: "North Shore of Stone Lake. Planets (Near Crandon) Wis." Caption on back reads: "Looking towards the picturesque re...
Postcard

A View of Stone Lake

Date: 1910
Description: View looking down hill towards Stone Lake, with wooded shoreline and a two-story log building in the foreground. Caption reads: "A View of Stone Lake, Cran...
Postcard

Surprise Lake

Date: 1908
Description: Black & white photographic postcard showing wooded shoreline of Surprise Lake. There is a two-story house behind trees on the opposite shoreline. Caption r...
Postcard

Launch on Stone Lake

Date: 1909
Description: Photographic postcard across water, showing launch owned by Schlitz Brewery of Milwaukee operating on Stone Lake. Caption reads: "Stone Lake, Crandon, Wis....
Postcard

Lake Metonga

Date: 1905
Description: Photographic postcard view of Lake Metonga, with marshy area in foreground. Caption reads: "On Famous Lake Metonga, Crandon, Wis."
Postcard

Approach to Stone Lake,

Date: 1910
Description: Photographic postcard showing dirt road leading to the shoreline of Stone Lake near Crandon. Caption reads: "Approach to Stone Lake, Crandon, Wis."
Postcard

Forest County Courthouse

Date: 1962
Description: Chrome color photographic postcard of Forest County Courthouse.
Postcard

Forest County Veteran's Memorial Park, Lake Metonga

Date: 1960
Description: Chrome color postcard of the boat launch area. Text on back reads: "Forest County Veteran's Memorial Park located 3 miles from Crandon, WI on the south sho...

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