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| Date: | 11 13 1909 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of an elevated view of people walking to the mine (in the distance) after a disaster. Caption reads: "Scene at Mine Disaster, Cherry,... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Construction workers on a building site at International Harvester's Lubertzy Works in Russia. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Mammoth Ore Docks, Ashland, Wis." A building and roads are in the foreground. Several ore ships can be seen. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the John Gund Brewing Company buildings, with the Mississippi River in the background. Caption reads: "John Gund Brewing Co., La Crosse, W... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of factory with yellow walls and blue roofs. Lake and trains in background, with a tree-lined boulevard in the foreground. Caption reads: "Al... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the factory surrounded by fields, roads, and several houses, as well as the railroad tracks that go around the building. Caption reads: "Wes... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the city of Rice Lake with a lumber yard in the foreground, a railroad and Rice Lake at left. Caption reads: "Rice Lake, Wisconsin." |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the Kissel Motor Car Company. The elevated view shows the factory buildings, water towers, railroad cars and track. A dirigib... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the saw mill. Lumber is stacked in front of several buildings and railroad tracks. Caption reads: "Saw Mill, Bayfield, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a group of workers, horses, and a dog posing at railroad siding at C.W. Begg's Mill. Caption reads: "C.W. Begg's Mill at Siding, C... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Color-enhanced postcard with an elevated view of the dam and swing bridge over the lock on the Fox River. Caption reads: "Birdseye View of Dam and Bridge o... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking east and upstream from the shoreline towards the wide Chippewa River. The water level is nearly up to the railroad tracks in the fore... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards train flatbeds stacked with large pine logs. There is a man standing further down the tracks looking towards the flatbe... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A view, looking east, of the grounds and buildings of the Montello Granite Company. On the left, a train car with "Detroit Southern" painted on it stands o... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards the pea canning factory. Caption reads: "Fredonia Pea Canning Factory, Fredonia, Wis." |
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| Description: | View of a stone quarry next to a river. Tracks are leading into an arched entrance. Caption reads: "Stone Quarry, So. Germantown, Wis." |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of a paper factory beside a railroad track. Caption reads: "Hoberg Paper and Fibre Division, Green Bay, Wis." |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Kissel auto plant in between the railroad and the river. A dirigible and bi-plane have been cut and pasted onto the image. Caption rea... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | View of the railroad yards. Factories and warehouses are on the left. Caption reads: "R. R. Yards, Hartford, Wis." |
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| Description: | View of the Cary iron Mine. Railroad tracks are in the right foreground. Caption reads: "Cary Mine, Hurley, Wis." |
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