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Field of Potatoes on the Farm of Oswald Scheller

Date: 09 04 1895
Description: A promotional card depicting Oswald Scheller and his family on their farm in northern Wisconsin.

The caption below the image reads: "Field of potatoes on...

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A Start in Price County

Date: 11 01 1896
Description: One of many promotional cards created to attract farmers to the agricultural land in northern Wisconsin. This card shows a family outside their home in the...
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Farm of Chris Klein near Phillips, Price County

Date: 1895
Description: The front (top) and back (bottom) of a promotional card created to attract farmers to the agricultural land in northern Wisconsin. The card features an ima...
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The Result of Thrift and Energy

Date: 1895
Description: A promotional cards created to attract farmers to the agricultural land in northern Wisconsin. The image depicts Conrad Flicker and his family standing in ...
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The Hay Crop

Date: 1895
Description: A promotional card advertising the large amounts of hay that can be growth in northern Wisconsin. The image shows three men posing on and beside a wagon ca...
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A Typical Country District School House in Price County

Date: 1895
Description: The front (left) and back (right) of a promotional card advertising farming land in northern Wisconsin.

The caption below the image reads: "A typical cou...

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Temporary Quarters for New Comers From Indiana

Date: 1895
Description: A promotional card advertising farming land in northern Wisconsin. The image depicts four settler men, their two horses, and their dog outside a temporary ...
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John Hartman

Date: 1895
Description: Two men and two women pose outside the home of John Hartman. The caption reads, "This view, taken from the garden, shows the home of John Hartman, near Phi...
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Fields of Rye

Date: 07 1897
Description: A promotional card displaying a man in overalls standing by his large rye crops, near the road.

The caption reads, "This view made from a photograph take...

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The Home of Julius Koehler

Date: 09 04 1895
Description: A promotional card created to promote agricultural land in northern Wisconsin. This piece displays Julius Koehler, a man, and a woman in the flourishing ga...
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Creamery

Date: 1926
Description: View across yard of the co-operative Creamery Company. There are two large vents on the roof of the building that have weather vanes decorated with cows.
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The First House in Kennedy

Date: 1908
Description: Group posed in front of the first house built in Kennedy.
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Cranberry Marsh

Date: 1938
Description: Dusting a cranberry marsh to combat blunt-nosed leaf-hoppers, Cranberry Lake Development Co.
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Meier's Oak

Date: 1980
Description: The tall, straight trunk of a large white oak dwarfs others around it on land homesteaded by (Carl) Albert Meier in 1883. At the time of the photograph, th...
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Storm Damage Cleanup

Date: 03 1978
Description: View across snow-covered ground towards a man standing on a log. The trees around him are either broken or bent over towards the right, the result of a sto...
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On the Flambeau River

Date: 07 1937
Description: View across water towards a shoreline where men and boys are gathered on the bank of the Flambeau River, with several canoes and rowboats pulled up to the ...
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Running Little Falls

Date: 1935
Description: View from rocky shoreline towards three young men in a canoe running the Little Falls rapids on the South Fork of the Flambeau River.
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Summer Time on Miles Lake

Date: 1950
Description: Elevated view of a man fishing in a rowboat seen through a stand of Birch trees on Miles Lake.

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