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Photograph

Transporting Parcels on Windsled

Date: 1954
Description: Elmer Nelson sorting through boxes of goods being transported on the "Dream Sled" windsled.
Photograph

Manufacturing Automobile Frames

Date: 1954
Description: Workers at the A.O. Smith Corporation in Milwaukee assembling frames for Cadillac automobiles. In 1902 Arthur O. Smith, son of the company's founder, produ...
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Belmont Hotel and Pinckney Street

Date: 1954
Description: View from Capitol Square Park of the Belmont Hotel and nearby buildings. Includes the storefronts for Simpson's and Rennebohm Drug Store #6, at 19 North Pi...
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Yawkey House

Date: 1954
Description: View across street towards a house on the corner in fall or early spring. Yawkey house was given by the A.P. Woodson family of Wausau to house the museum o...
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The Detroit Edison Under Construction

Date: 1954
Description: Self-unloader, the Detroit Edison, Hull 418, is under construction and surrounded by scaffolding at Manitowoc Shipbuilding Corporation.
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Auto Daredevils Perform

Date: 1954
Description: Two cars and drivers with the Swenson Thrillcade World Champion Auto Daredevils perform before an audience at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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Andrews House

Date: 1954
Description: View of the Andrews house, the birthplace and home of Roy Chapman Andrews.
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Jack McGrath

Date: 1954
Description: Jack McGrath, an Indianapolis 500 driver, photographed at the Milwaukee State Fair, with his cream colored Hinkle Special. McGrath died in an automobile cr...
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Trinity Lutheran Church

Date: 1954
Description: View from across street of church entrance along road.
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Sig Shoveling Snow

Date: 1954
Description: Conservationist and outdoorsman Sigurd F. Olson taking a break from shoveling snow outside his home.
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John Berry, a Baby, and Pearl Berry

Date: 1954
Description: John Berry holds a baby as he poses with his wife Pearl.
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Lewis Arms with his Dog

Date: 1954
Description: Lewis Arms plays with his dog Tuffy. He is wearing his Marine Corps hat, and his automobile is visible parked in the background.
Photograph

Jean Nash with Ciron Cranberry Truck

Date: 1954
Description: Jean Nash, cranberry grower, posed next to a truck for the Biron Cranberry Company.
Map or Atlas

Map of City of Wausau Wisconsin City of Schofield Wisconsin Village of Rothschild Wisconsin and Those Areas of Townships Maine Stettin Rib Mountain Texas and Wausau Adjacent to the Corporate Limits of the City of Wausau

Date: 1954
Description: This map of Wausau is pink, red, gray, and white. The map includes indexes of streets, industries, and community buildings and features a photograph of the...
Photograph

Flower and Vegetable Gardens

Date: 1954
Description: Tall flowers, possibly delphiniums and hollyhocks, grow between a stone wall and a grass path. A vegetable garden grows on the other side of the path, and ...
Photograph

Green Willys Jeep

Date: 1954
Description: Man (probably Forest Lodge caretaker) and woman standing next to a green, enclosed Willys Jeep with a spare tire hanging on the passenger side. The man is ...

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