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First Cast of the Day

Date: 09 08 1960
Description: Text on reverse: "Greetings, White Lake, Wis. First Cast of the Day." Two fisherman, facing in opposite directions, cast their lines into the water from a ...
Photograph

Gilmore's Mistake, Wolf River

Date: 1979
Description: Two canoeists navigate the rapids, called Gilmore's Mistake, on the Wolf River. Rocks and foliage can be seen on the shore.
Photograph

White Deer

Date: 1950
Description: A pair of white deer standing behind a brush pile in the woods on private land.
Photograph

Pickeral, [sic] Wis.

Date: 
Description: View of a building with a covered porch, and a sign on a tree that reads: "Boats to Let." A group of people are sitting on the porch. There is a body of wa...
Photograph

Kraft Phenix Plant

Date: 07 1936
Description: Vines are growing on the side of the brick Kraft Phenix cheese factory building at the corner of Ninth Avenue and Edison Street. Raised letters on the frie...
Photograph

Wolf River

Date: 1972
Description: View along tree-lined shoreline of the Wolf River.
Map or Atlas

Norwood Township Map

Date: 1913
Description: A plat map of the township of Norwood in Langlade County.
Photograph

Women's Bicycle Race

Date: 1895
Description: Four women in dresses and hats riding bicycles on a race track at the Langlade County Fair Grounds. Bleachers at left are empty, but there is a man in a ca...
Photograph

Boy on Clermont Street

Date: 1885
Description: View of Clermont Street with a young boy in the foreground, homes and trees in the background. Fences and sidewalks line both sides of the street.
Photograph

Brook Trout Distribution

Date: 1921
Description: Elevated view of automobiles and trucks gathered in connection with the distribution of brook trout fish. The “milk” cans in sight presumably contain finge...
Photograph

St. Ambrose Episcopal Church

Date: 1913
Description: View of side and front of the St. Ambrose Episcopal Church. Two people are standing near the ivy which is growing up the side of the tower near the arched ...
Photograph

Street View of Bryant

Date: 1909
Description: Street view showing houses, side yards and residents.
Photograph

J.W. Chadek

Date: 07 30 1895
Description: Poppy (Papaver somniferum) field on the farm of J.W. Chadek. Three men stand in the field. In the background more people stand among farm buildings.
Photograph

Pie Plants in Garden

Date: 07 30 1895
Description: A garden lush with tall pie plants (rhubarb) belonging to Mrs. H.H. Wooledge. One stalk is leaning against a wooden chair, and the leaf of the plant reachi...
Photograph

Millet Field

Date: 07 30 1895
Description: Two men stand in a field of millet owned by Henry Higgins.
Photograph

Joseph Seipold Pea Field

Date: 07 30 1895
Description: Two men stand in the five-foot tall pea field of Joseph Seipold three miles northeast of Antigo. Another man stands atop a horse-drawn wagon loaded with ha...
Photograph

A Good Job Well Done

Date: 1900
Description: Group of men posing in a wooded area among liquor bottles that have been emptied into the snow, the result of a raid on a saloon in the town of Polar which...
Photograph

Clair L. Finch

Date: 12 29 1947
Description: Assemblyman Clair L. Finch (R-Antigo), in chambers with his seeing eye dog.
Photograph

Two Men Sawing a Tree

Date: 1890
Description: Sigvart Solbrg, (left) and Anton Follstad, (right) sawing a tree down during winter.
Photograph

Langlade Resurfacing

Date: 07 25 1950
Description: Road crew applying a product known as RCS3 Bitumen, a particular type of asphalt, to seal the surface of STH 47 in Langlade County.

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