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Description: | Bill Payne driving a herd of large hogs through town on Main Street, possibly on the way to Adam Best's Butcher's Shop. Storefronts identified, from left t... |
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Description: | Bartender and six patrons posing in front of a saloon. The saloon sign reads: "Celebrated Watertown Lager Beer." |
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Description: | Dr. Eugene Krohn driving his medicine wagon. The man behind the wagon is either Rufus Jones or Warren C. Jones. |
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Description: | Elevated view of lumber camp with loggers posing in front of a train loaded with logs. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Families gathered outside of Werner's Drugstore on annuity pay day. A sign reads "Medicine sold here" in Ho-Chunk, German, and Norwegian. The Ho-Chunk syll... |
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Description: | This photograph of Ho-Chunk powwow participants is a copy made by Van Schaick. From left to right are: John Hazen Hill (HaNaKah), William Hall (HunkKah), W... |
Date: | 1908 |
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Description: | Ho-Chunk men and women sitting and standing around a large medicine drum in an area portioned off by canvas barriers in front of a lodge. Identified as the... |
Date: | 1898 |
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Description: | Men and women sitting in two hammocks. The people pictured are Julia Murray Ormsby, Fred Werner, and R. Effie (Ettie) Meinhold. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Elevated view of men working on telephone lines from scaffolding attached to the pole in front of the telephone exchange building. |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | Two hunters check their shotguns while their hunting dogs wait in the field. |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | A man stands in the open doorway of a Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, & Omaha railway boxcar. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Derailed locomotive and coal car. Wreck on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railway, locomotive #287, in the vicinity of Black River Falls. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Sidney Catle, on bike, stands with his sister Sarah to his right, Harvey Richards, and twin sisters. |
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Description: | Several elephants walk up a hill in a circus parade along Main Street. They are followed by a group of horses, while bystanders watch from a platform on t... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Two Ho-Chunk men wearing beaded shirts are gathering cranberries (hoocake) alongside a Ho-Chunk woman and a white man and woman. A large group of cranberry... |
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Description: | A stallion with long curly mane, owned by Jack Allison. Allison, a horse dealer from Taylor County, and the horse stand in front of the Post Office on Main... |
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Description: | Railroad workers posing with a handcar on railroad tracks. |
Date: | 1889 |
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Description: | A farm family posing in front of farm buildings and farmhouse. The young daughters are wearing matching dresses. Men in the background are standing with a ... |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Winnebago Indians and Black River Falls townspeople harvesting cranberries. |
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