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Vieau Trading Post

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Description: Vieau trading post.
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Pioneer Home of Nels Wickstrom

Date: 1891
Description: This is a family photograph of Nels Wickstrom with his wife Anna (born Anna Stoel) and their children in front of their log home. The oldest child, wearing...
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Park Hotel

Date: 1910
Description: Exterior view of the Park Hotel.
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Chequamegon Hotel

Date: 1888
Description: View of the Chequamegon Hotel, built by the Wisconsin Central railroad interests and opened in 1877. It faced the bay and had a long series of steps leadin...
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Interior of Bar

Date: 1910
Description: Interior of bar with two bartenders and customers standing at the bar.
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Children by Christmas Tree

Date: 01 1905
Description: Young children, Jennie and Edgar Krueger, playing with toys near their family Christmas tree.
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Office Environment

Date: 1926
Description: A businessman and his secretary at the desk in his office.
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Relaxation on Hammocks

Date: 1898
Description: Men and women sitting in two hammocks. The people pictured are Julia Murray Ormsby, Fred Werner, and R. Effie (Ettie) Meinhold.
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Dressing up the Dog

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Description: A girl sits in a rocking chair as a young woman commands a dog who is dressed in dark clothing to sit. A piano or organ is in the background.
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Office Supplies Store

Date: 06 22 1927
Description: The interior of the first floor of Blied Office Supplies Store. Three men and a women are behind counters and a desk.
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Man on Farmall 560 Tractor

Date: 1958
Description: Farmer on a Farmall 560 tractor with disk harrow pausing to talk to another man in a field in front of a farmhouse.
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Beauty Class

Date: 1927
Description: A beauty culture class in session.
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Barber Shop

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Description: Three barbers stand in the barber shop at the Princess Martha Hotel.
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Switchboard Operator

Date: 1915
Description: Josie Jepson (or Jepsen) at the telephone switchboard on Washington Island.
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Model Airplane Builder

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Description: Tony Italiano of Waukesha, founder of the Supreme Model Supply Co., with a large model airplane.
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Home-Built Heath

Date: 1932
Description: Ray and Carl Breecher's Heath parasol monoplane while still under construction in their father's garage. Despite extensive modification, the plane crashed ...
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Test Kitchen and Laboratory

Date: 10 16 1945
Description: Slightly elevated view of five women workers in an Oscar Mayer Company test kitchen and laboratory. A low wall is separating two women working at desks on ...
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Test Kitchen and Laboratory at Oscar Mayer

Date: 10 16 1945
Description: Slightly elevated view of five women researchers performing various aspects of food research and related activities in a test kitchen and laboratory at the...
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Thomas H. Flad Family

Date: 07 31 1943
Description: Group portrait of Thomas H. and Eileen Flad with their children, Joseph T. and Mary E., sitting in the yard.
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Co-op Electric Store

Date: 07 02 1943
Description: Interior view of Co-op Electric Store, 155 East Wilson Street, showing small electric household appliances.

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