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Dr. Joseph Smith

Date: 1913
Description: Dr. Joseph Smith reads at his desk in his office in the Wisconsin Valley Trust Building.
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Loading Logs from Skids

Date: 02 1914
Description: Loggers moving logs onto a horse-drawn wagon in the snow.
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Reliability Race Winner

Date: 08 1928
Description: John P. Wood of Wausau, winner of the 1928 National Air Reliability Tour, with his "Waco from Wausau." Also in the photograph are Wood's prizes: the Edsel ...
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Milwaukee Road Repair Crew

Date: 09 1980
Description: View down tracks of a repair crew working on Milwaukee Road tracks, near Rothschild, using a crane to help lift a rail. An unidentified highway bridge over...
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Mrs. Endres Feeding Chickens

Date: 1925
Description: Mrs. John Endres feeding the chickens in the farmyard with her dog.
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Ginseng Beds

Date: 1938
Description: Workers preparing ginseng beds in northern Wisconsin.
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Marathon County Court House

Date: 1955
Description: View of the Marathon County Court House being razed.
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Marathon County Court House

Date: 1955
Description: Elevated view of the Marathon County Court House grounds in the foreground. The uprooting of the trees was done in preparation to raze the court house.
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Stubb's Tavern

Date: 1938
Description: Men drinking in the bar at Stubb's Tavern.
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Horses with a Go-Devil

Date: 1910
Description: Two logging workers pose with their team of horses who are hitched to a go-devil, used for skidding logs to a road or landing.
Print

Wish You a Merry Christmas

Date: 1951
Description: The inside of a holiday card. It shows the head of the company, D.C. (Clark) Everest, sitting at his desk. Four green frames across the top show different ...
Photograph

When the President Comes to Town

Date: 1979
Description: Congressman David Obey introduces a local resident (back to camera), to President Jimmy Carter. Many photographers stand around the edge of the group and a...
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President Jimmy Carter

Date: 1979
Description: President Jimmy Carter speaks to a small group of well wishers while Congressman David R. Obey looks on. Photographers are in the crowd. The space is decor...
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When the President Comes to Town

Date: 1979
Description: Press photographers set up their equipment in the press area before they cover a visit by President Jimmy Carter. A scoreboard hangs on the wall in the bac...
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Candidate Laird

Date: 11 01 1966
Description: Wisconsin Congressman Melvin Laird distributing his campaign literature outside the Marathon Electric plant gate.
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Obey with Factory Workers

Date: 01 1969
Description: David R. Obey posing with factory workers at Wausau Paper Mill in Brokaw, WI, during his first campaign for Congress.
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Obey and Day on the Farm

Date: 01 1969
Description: As part of a campaign photo shoot, Laurence Day gives candidate David R. Obey a tour of his dairying operation in Marathon County. Day was both a dairy far...
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Campaign Shoot

Date: 1994
Description: Filming a campaign spot for Congressman David R. Obey (left), probably in the Wausau Family Practice Center. Health care and its associated costs were an i...
Postcard

Logging

Date: 1908
Description: Colorized postcard of loggers posing with logs piled on horse-drawn sleds. Caption reads: "Logging, Athens, Wis."
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Dam in Wausau

Date: 1913
Description: View down riverbank towards dam of a river around Wausau. Two men and a limber (two-wheeled cart) are near the rivers edge. A man, perhaps a construction w...

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