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Big Falls Logging Crew

Date: 1900
Description: Four men from a logging crew posing standing in the snow with teams of horses and oxen.
Photograph

First Four-Wheel Drive

Date: 1909
Description: Five men pose with the first successful four-wheel drive vehicle, which was made in Clintonville in 1909. The inventor, Otto Zachow, is the man seated at t...
Photograph

Cutting Crew in the Woods

Date: 1900
Description: A cutting crew of three men posing in the woods with a work horse next to felled trees.
Book or Pamphlet

Topp-Stewart Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Interior pages of a brochure advertising the Topp-Stewart four-wheel drive tractor. Two photographs of men using the tractor, one in snow and one in a farm...
Photograph

Telephone Linemen

Date: 1928
Description: Group portrait of four telephone linemen. Three of the men are posed on the pole, and another man is standing on the ground. Three automobiles are parked a...
Photograph

Women Weaving and Spinning

Date: 1922
Description: Mrs. (Christine) Peterson and Mrs. Torgeson (a neighbor) are working in the upstairs loft of the barn. Christine is sitting in a chair using a spinning whe...
Photograph

Three Men Posing with Parked Truck

Date: 1922
Description: View across dirt road towards three linemen posing in front of a truck that is parked along the side of the road. A power pole is attached horizontally in ...
Photograph

William R. Parks

Date: 1908
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of William R. Parks, a photographer from Iola, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Telephone Linemen

Date: 1928
Description: Group portrait of four telephone linemen standing together, three of them wearing pole climbing spikes (or spurs). The man leaning on the pole is Carl Pete...
Photograph

Shoe Repairman

Date: 1915
Description: A cobbler repairing a boot in his shop. Many boots are lined up on the floor, and a bench of tools is behind him. A calendar from J.B. Yunker & Sons hangs ...
Postcard

Freight Cars Wrecked

Date: 09 16 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Freight Cars Wrecked at Sheridan, Wis." A group of people are posing with a line of severely derailed and damaged railroad cars.
Postcard

A.G. Peterson's Blacksmith Shop

Date: 09 02 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "A.G. Peterson's Blacksmith Shop, Sheridan, Wis." Workers, horses, buggies and wagons are in front of a brick blacksmith's shop. The s...

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