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Threshing Steam Tractor

Date: 1900
Description: Men and boys posing around a threshing steam tractor. Oliver Johnson is in the foreground. John Bergeson and Art(?) are on top of the stack. Henning Berges...
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Residential Street

Date: 1910
Description: View across road towards a neighborhood along another road. Houses are on the right, and two children in the center are standing on the sidewalk in the cen...
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Public School

Date: 1900
Description: View of the front of the public school established in 1896. Caption reads: "Public School, Park Falls, Wis."
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Park Hotel

Date: 1900
Description: View across road towards the Park Hotel, with children playing on the sidewalk in front of the hotel. Caption reads: "Park Falls, Wis."
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Park Hotel

Date: 1910
Description: Park Hotel from a clipping taken from the Park Falls Herald of April 5, 1962. The caption reads: "Park Hotel was a landmark in the early days of Park Falls...
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Park Hotel

Date: 1900
Description: A view of the Park Hotel in winter. A man on the left is pulling a sled piled with firewood.
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Original Catholic Church and Rectory, Parish of St. Anthony

Date: 04 25 1931
Description: A view of a church and what appears to be the adjoining rectory. This is the Parish of St. Anthony in the town of Fifield.
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Meili-Blumberg Model 10 Power Grader

Date: 1948
Description: Man grading a dirt road with a Meili-Blumberg Model 10 power grader attached to an International M tractor. Original caption states: "To maintain its 67 m...
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Flambeau Milling Company Plant

Date: 09 18 1961
Description: View from railroad tracks of the Flambeau Milling Company Plant.
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"Fred Smith's Concrete Museum"

Date: 09 18 1961
Description: Concrete sculpture museum. Caption on negative jacket reads, "Fred Smith's Concrete Museum. Mr. Smith builds these figures of wooden armature covered with ...
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Concrete Sculpture

Date: 09 18 1961
Description: Close-up view of one of the many concrete sculptures in "Fred Smith's Concrete Museum."
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Hemlock Forest

Date: 09 18 1961
Description: Bog-clearing in a stretch of hemlock forest along Highway 13.
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Cranberry Harvest

Date: 09 1934
Description: Cranberry harvesters using cranberry rakes make their way across a flooded cranberry bog. In the background crates of harvested cranberries are stacked wai...
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Flooded Cranberry Marsh Harvest

Date: 09 1934
Description: A large group of men working in a line with cranberry rakes to harvest cranberries in a flooded marsh. The men at work are all wearing waders. In the backg...
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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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Fourth of July at Park Falls

Date: 07 05 1994
Description: As a boy scout raises the flag, the people in attendance at the Park Falls Fourth of July celebration recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Congressman David R....
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Fourth of July at Park Falls

Date: 07 04 1994
Description: The flag raising during the Fourth of July ceremony, with a group of the local Knights of Columbus on the left. In the foreground on the right is a photogr...
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Park Falls VFW

Date: 07 04 1994
Description: Members of the Park Falls chapter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at the community Fourth of July ceremony.
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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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