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| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Two men, one wearing an apron, sit in a wanigan tied to the shore of the Chippewa River near Chippewa Falls. The inside of the boat appears to have a pile ... |
| Date: | 04 1923 |
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| Description: | A bundled-up woman hand pumps water from a well into a pail. The ground is covered with ice and snow. Two cars and a farmhouse are in the background. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company nursery. |
| Date: | 04 1923 |
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| Description: | Woman carrying a bucket of water back to her farmhouse in winter. |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the photographer, Carl A. Peterson, taking a moment to light his pipe while fishing from a boat near the family home. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of the Wisconsin River in the Wisconsin Dells from underneath an overhanging rocky outcropping. A canoe is beached on the far left. The word... |
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| Description: | Large log jam on the Chippewa River. In the distance a group of men stand atop the jammed logs. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Abandoned mill, formerly called the Modena Roller Mills. The first mill was built in 1865 (now torn down). |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Rural scene of farmstead with a river or stream (?) in the background. The farm is bounded by a barbed wire fence, and there is a utility pole on the bank ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A man crouching in a farm field near a wooden tool, possibly doing irrigation work. A dirt road behind the man leads to several buildings and a water tower... |
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| Description: | Log driving crew sitting down for lunch on the bank of a river (probably the Trap River or Rib River). There is a batteau at the water's edge, and one man ... |
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| Description: | The Chippewa Spring House, a small round building with a conical roof with a sign over the door reading "Chippewa Spring," sitting off to the side of a dir... |
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| Description: | View from hill looking down on a group of log cabins inhabited by "dam tenders" on the shore of the icebound Chippewa River. A logging dam in is in the rig... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a car driving over a bridge on the Kickapoo River. There is a ridge of a hill in the background. |
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| Description: | One man sits in the bow and one man stands on shore holding the stern of a birch bark canoe at the edge of a lake. They may be Indians. The man in the cano... |
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| Description: | Two men sit on the shore of the Chippewa River near Brunet Falls. The light is dim. There are large trees behind them. |
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| Description: | A bridge across a small creek in Silver Springs Park. Some birch and pine trees are nearby. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View across driveway of one-and-a-half story house with a stone chimney situated under large pine trees and new plantings. Cable Lake is in the background. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View across water filled with lily pads of a one-story cottage on shore of Cable Lake. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Cottages on the shoreline of Cable Lake. The cottages are supported by pilings where they extend out over the water. |
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