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| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A one-story wood frame school with a lightning rod or flagpole on the bell tower. A hand water pump is near the front entrance, and a tire swing is wrapped... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of James Mine with a field and fence in the foreground. Tram tracks lead from the tall building to large piles of rocks. There are steep stai... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Copeland Mine. Entry building, with tram tracks suspended high on scaffolding and piles of rocks below. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Ruins of the Old Mill, a stone building which has no roof and is missing window glass. Behind on the left is an abandoned shed. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across road towards Chaney's Cash General Store. Behind trees on the left is a house and windmill. Laundry is drying behind the store on the right. A ... |
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| Description: | View up a road towards the front of the catholic church, which has a steeple and belfry. The double door entrance has an arched stained glass window, and a... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the public school, a two-story brick building in a rural area with small bell tower on the roof above the entrance. There is a flagpole on... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View from road of the general store, a two-story wood frame building in a rural area. A man and a child are standing near the door. Another child is sittin... |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view of the front and side of the Congregational Church at the bottom of a steep, tree-lined hill. A wooden building with narrow arched windo... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Looking west along County Trunk Highway SS (now CTH DD) from the hill east of the New Fane School. The brick school, with its bell tower and widow's walk, ... |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view of front and side of the German Lutheran Church, a brick building with steps to the entrance. There are narrow arched windows, a belfy w... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View of front of the public school, a two-story brick building with a cupola and flagpole over the bell. A cornfield and bluff are in the background. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of Lake Kegonsa shoreline, with cottages and boathouses along the shore, and farm buildings on a hill behind. There is a dock with several rowboats in... |
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| Description: | View of front of a wooden rural church, with a columned porch, belfry and steeple. There is a weather vane on the steeple. A wood and wire fence surrounds ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View from railroad tracks towards the back of the canning company. There are freight cars parked near the loading dock. Two smokestacks are behind the buil... |
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| Description: | The Elmer Willis Sesl (sp?) farm. The photograph has the term "Exhibit "B"" written on the front in ink. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | View over fence of cattle grazing in a large, open field. In the far background is a cornfield and farm buildings along a low hill. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A view of the Log Cabin Filling Station at a tourist camp. A garage for washing and greasing on the left. Two tall gas pumps. Lamps made of interlaced logs... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A road intersection in a rural area. A tree and a shed on the left. A general store in the back. A house, a shed and a cornfield on the right. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View across dirt road of the asylum and grounds. A large three-story building is spread out over several acres. Stairs are leading up to entrances on the s... |
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