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Hand-Drawn Ladder Wagon

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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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Barstow Street Looking North

Date: 1907
Description: View of the streetcars on Barstow Street, with commercial buildings and pedestrians. There is a boat on the sidewalk on the right. Caption reads: "Barstow ...
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Hotel Interlaken, Beaver Lake

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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...
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Hook and Ladder Central Station

Date: 1907
Description: A group of fire fighters are posing on a horse-drawn hook and ladder firetruck parked at the entrance of the firehouse. Caption reads: "Hook and Ladder Cen...
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Company Boarding House

Date: 1908
Description: View of a large boarding house. Two people are standing on the porch, and a woman is sitting and looking out of the sill of a second-story window. Caption ...
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Dickerson House

Date: 1907
Description: View down street towards the Dickerson House, with a sign above the entrance along the rooftop. There is a billiard hall and saloon further down the block....
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Business District

Date: 1916
Description: View down center of a street in Mazomanie. Horse-drawn vehicles are hitched along the curb. Caption reads: "Business District, Mazomanie, Wis."
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Dedication of New Main Street

Date: 10 20 1915
Description: Slightly elevated view of the parade for the dedication of the new Main Street. W.A. Holt is driving his automobile, which is decorated with garlands, in t...
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Holt Lumber Company

Date: 1910
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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Men Working on Building Forest Protection Lookout Tower

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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 ...
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Power House at the Dam

Date: 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Power House at the Dam." Elevated view of the powerhouse, which is a very large brick and concrete structure next to the Prairie du S...
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Picking Cherries at N.C. Jacobs

Date: 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Picking Cherries at N.C. Jacobs', Sawyer, Wis." An elevated view of a group of women, men and children picking cherries using ladders...
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Cherry Picking Scene

Date: 07 04 1927
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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Golden Lake

Date: 02 15 1908
Description: Text on front reads: "Golden Lake." A man and six children posing on a dock with a water slide and diving platform. One of the boys is leaping into the wat...
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Hotel Superior Fire

Date: 06 18 1940
Description: A crowd of people are standing in the street watching as a fire burns in the four story, brick Hotel Superior and a dozen stores and offices. Nine fire com...
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Hotel Superior Fire

Date: 06 18 1940
Description: Crowds standing in the street watching as a fire burns in the four story, brick Hotel Superior. People are being rescued with a ladder and others have esca...
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C. & N.W. Depot

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "C. & N.W. R.R. Depot, West Bend, Wis." View across two sets of railroad tracks towards the platform where two men and a dog are stand...

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