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| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Milkmaid with pail and cow. Text reads: "Milking Time, Good Friends in Wisconsin, Scenes along the country roads." |
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| Description: | View of the dining room at the resort. Caption reads: "A Corner of the Dining Room, Warner's Resort, Plum Lake, Sayner, Wis." |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A spinning wheel, chair, and other kitchen objects in the corner of a room. Caption reads: "Corner of Pioneer Kitchen, Douglas County Historical Museum, Su... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View of the dining room which shows tables set for a meal. Large picture windows have views of the lake and woods surrounding the resort, and above the win... |
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| Description: | Black and white postcard of an indoor scene with a loom, spinning wheel, skeiner, garments and two dolls seated in a chair at Little Norway. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of the main living area of a Norwegian dwelling at Little Norway showing a fireplace, cradle and spinning wheel. Pictures and household ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of two men, seated at a small table drinking. They are dressed in suits and each man is smoking a cigar. The man on the right is wearing a ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Man sitting on a box, leaning back against a wall, with his legs crossed. He is dressed in bib overalls and is smoking a pipe. He may be sitting in a kitch... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the lobby of Gordon Lodge. There is a deer head trophy mounted above the mantle of the stone fireplace, and a large spinning wheel between... |
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| Description: | A gag photo postcard of a man, seated on the edge of a bed, with his arm around a life-sized paperboard cut out of a beautiful, seated woman. He is holding... |
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| Description: | A very happy grandmother stands in the farmyard with a granddaughter, a cow and many chickens. In the background is the farmhouse. |
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| Description: | A smiling grandfather has his arm around a toddler granddaughter. A toddler boy is standing next to them. They are surrounded by chickens, and behind them ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | An unidentified woman standing near a shed is feeding chickens and geese in the barnyard. |
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| Description: | A large group of men are using log poles to pull the side of a new timber framed barn up to meet the roof line. |
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| Description: | A large group of men pause briefly in their work of raising this large timber framed barn. |
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| Description: | Four men pause in their work of building a new, large barn. They are all wearing hats for protection from the sun. |
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| Description: | Three generations of the Fiebelkorn family make sausage in the family farm kitchen. On the table is a sausage stuffing implement, a meat grinder, and a sau... |
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| Description: | Interior of William Fiebelkorn's home. Next to a window with lace curtains at the window is a rack with a display of photographs or postcards. There is a t... |
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| Description: | William Fiebelkorn and his wife Anna stand at a fence on their farm. William is holding a toddler. The house, the barn, several outbuildings and a windmill... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Dining Room of the resort on Catfish Lake, east of Eagle River off of STH 70. The tables are set with white tablecloths and silverware settings. Establishe... |
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