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Snow-Covered Main Street

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Description: Wagons and sleighs on a snow-covered Main Street. Looking west on Main Street toward the intersection of the Main Street and First Street. Storefronts, fro...
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Road Grader Plowing Snow

Date: 1900
Description: Winter scene looking toward Main Street from South First Street, with an arch over the intersection. A man is operating a road grader pulled by four horses...
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Cattle in Snow on Main Street

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Description: Winter scene with short-horned cattle on snow-covered Main Street, Black River Falls, Wisconsin.
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Boy on a Sled Pulled by a Pony

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Description: Boy on a small sled pulled by a pony.
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Two Men with Dogs

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Description: Two men playing with two dogs on sidewalk on the west side of South First Street between drifts of snow. Hardware store partially obscured on the northwest...
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Native American Women on Water Street

Date: 1911
Description: A boy is standing on a snow-covered wooden sidewalk on the left, and Native American women wrapped in blankets are walking on the sidewalk on the right. Vi...
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Four Men and a Shot Gun

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Description: One man armed with a shotgun, facing a man in the doorway of a log house, and surrounded by four other men standing in the snow, also a horse and sleigh.
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Men with Workhorses

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Description: Men with workhorses hitched to a sleigh, possibly a Spaulding Oscillating Sleigh.
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Man Driving Bobsled

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Description: Man driving a bobsled and team of two horses. A row of buildings is along the street in the background.
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Man Holding Two Horses

Date: 1900
Description: Man posing with two horses with white-blazed foreheads. Taken in town, with buildings in the background and snow on the ground.
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Man Posing with Horse

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Description: Man posing with a draft horse, probably a Clydesdale, in front of the Merchants Inn. There were many draft stallions, English Shire, Clydesdale, Norman Per...
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Group of People with Bobsled

Date: 1900
Description: Winter scene with six women, six children, and a man examining a bobsled hitched to a horse.
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Three Horses in Barnyard

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Description: Two men display three horses on reins, probably in front of Abe Bailey's barn.
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Man with Horses in Snow-Covered Field

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Description: A man and six horses standing in a snow-covered field on a hill.
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Man and Woman Posed on Horseback

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Description: A man and woman pose on separate horses in a snow-covered farmyard.
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Horse-Drawn Sleigh and Sled

Date: 1895
Description: A man stands on a sled pulled by a team of two horses that is carrying logs on a snow-covered road. Moving away from the log-carrying sled is an empty egg-...
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Horse on Country Road

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Description: A horse stands hitched to an empty egg-shell cutter on a snowy country road.
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Men, Woman and Dog Posing with a Sled

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Description: A woman and dog sit in an egg-shell cutter that is hitched to a horse while two men stand to the side.
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Horses Pulling Cutter in Woods

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Description: A two-horse team pulls a man that is seated in a cutter through the woods.
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Horse Pulling Cutter Through Woods

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Description: A horse pulls a bearded man that is seated in a cutter through the woods.

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