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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Cumberland with Beaver Dam Lake in the background. In the foreground is a street, and across the street is a church, a water tower and dwe... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Damage caused by a tornado to a barn near Reseburg. The caption notes that the farm was rented and that "moonshine" was being made there. Some locals at t... |
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| Description: | View of the Inter Lake Pulp Mill. Smoke is billowing out of the mill's smokestack. A boat is crossing the canal between two lakes. Caption reads: "Inter La... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Postcard distributed by International Harvester Company of a photograph of a group of men loading bales of hay onto a horse-drawn wagon. Some of the men ap... |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view of a lighthouse, with a building and a smokestack behind it. Caption reads: "Chequamegon Point Light House, Bayfield, Wis." |
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| Description: | Partially colorized view looking down at a quarry. On the other side of the quarry is the town of Berlin, with dwellings and commercial buildings. Caption ... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of workmen posing with a partially built shed or corn crib. One man in sitting on the roof timbers. Two wagons with lumber are parked... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View towards tower, with a man standing on the platform on the top. This postcard has a handwritten notation on the back: "One of the first forest protecti... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Black and white photographic postcard view of workers picking cherries, some of them standing on ladders. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view of tourists picking cherries. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of English Lutheran (now Advent Lutheran) Church, which is a stone building with a bell tower and an arched stained-glass window. Cap... |
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| Description: | Hand-drawn ladder wagon dating from ca. 1868. Part of the collection at the Hall of Flame, Phoenix, Arizona. |
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| Description: | View across lawn towards the Hotel Interlocken. There are chairs on the porch, and a water tower, obscured by a tree, is on a platform just above the roofl... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from the Oconto River of the Holt Lumber Company. A man is standing on a log boom and guiding logs to the sawmill. Writing on the postcard reads: "Hol... |
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| Description: | Men are working up in the tower during construction. One man is standing mid-height on a ladder that runs the length of the tower on the right side. There ... |
| Date: | 07 04 1927 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Cherry Picking Scene, Door County, Wisconsin." A cherry orchard filled with people and people on ladders, harvesting the fruit into b... |
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