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Chippewa Shoe Mfg. Co.

Date: 1919
Description: Slightly elevated view toward the Chippewa Shoe Manufacturing Company building, Bay Street & River Street, looking north. Caption reads: "Chippewa Shoe Mfg...
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Public Library

Date: 1913
Description: Front view of the Chippewa Falls public library building. Caption reads: "Public Library, Chippewa Falls, Wis."
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Chippewa Falls, Wis. General View, from South Side of River

Date: 1910
Description: Chippewa Falls from the south side of the river below the falls. Includes the Sheely House Tavern, railway buildings, box cars, a train with five passenger...
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High School

Date: 1916
Description: Hand-colored postcard view from across street towards the Chippewa Falls High School on North Bridge Street. Caption reads: "High School, Chippewa Falls, W...
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McDonell Memorial High School

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored postcard of McDonell Memorial High School. Caption reads: "McDonell Memorial High School, Chippewa Falls, Wis."
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Memorial High School and Notre Dame Church

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored postcard view looking up a unpaved road and sidewalk at McDonell Memorial High School and Notre Dame church with the nuns' convent in the back...
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Carnegie Library

Date: 1910
Description: View across street towards the library, constructed of cut stone, one-story with raised basement. Caption reads: "Carnegie Library, Chippewa Falls, Wis."
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Logs in Chippewa River, above the Falls

Date: 1910
Description: Colorized postcard of logs floating in river, looking east between falls and railroad bridge. In the upper right corner is a large number of logging pylons...
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Breaking Log Jam in the Chippewa River

Date: 1910
Description: Two men standing on logs are looking at the log jam in the river. Caption reads: "Breaking Log Jam in the Chippewa River"
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Log Jam on Chippewa River

Date: 1910
Description: Colorized view of log jam. A sand bluff is across the river in the upper left corner. Caption reads: "Log Jam on Chippewa River."
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Moon Light on The Rapids, Chippewa Falls

Date: 1910
Description: View from the south shore of the Chippewa River, looking west, showing choppy, churning rapids, and a silhouette of the Big Mill and smokestack.
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Wagon Bridge and C.L. & B. Co.'s Mill

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view looking east and upstream from the shoreline towards the wide Chippewa River. The water level is nearly up to the railroad tracks in the fore...
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The Fourth Annual Ski Tournament

Date: 1910
Description: View looking up towards a ski jumper airborne over the top edge of a hill as a large crowd is looking on from the sides. The top of the ski jump scaffold i...
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Irvine Park

Date: 1910
Description: Colorized view of a bridge crossing Duncan Creek in Irvine Park with trees and river bend in background. Caption reads: "Irvine Park, Chippewa Falls, Wis."
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A Cool Retreat and Springs, Irvine Park

Date: 1910
Description: Rock outcroppings with birch trees and a long staircase climbing a hill in Irvine Park. Caption reads: "A Cool Retreat and Springs, Irvine Park, Chippewa F...
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Lovers' Lane, Irvine Park

Date: 1910
Description: View down tree-lined "lovers' lane" on a hill along a stone wall and rock outcroppings in Irvine Park. Caption reads: "Lovers' Lane, Irvine Park, Chippewa ...
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Bison at Irvine Park

Date: 1910
Description: View of two bison grazing on weeds behind a tall wire fence in Irvine Park. Caption reads: "Bison at Irvine Park, Chippewa Falls, Wis."
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Cave at Irvine Park

Date: 1910
Description: Sunlit opening of a large carved out man-made cave with a park bench in the foreground in Irvine Park. The figure of a woman in the cave is obscured by sha...
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Bridge and Rocky Scenery at Irvine Park

Date: 1910
Description: View of a bend in Duncan Creek with a bridge, trees, a quarried rock face and road in Irvine Park (probably the "Bear Cage Road"). Caption reads: "Bridge a...
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Driveway at Duncan Creek in Irvine Park

Date: 1910
Description: A curving, rutted dirt road between a rock wall at Duncan Creek in Irvine Park (probably the "Bear Cage Road"). Caption reads: "Driveway at Duncan Creek in...

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