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Visitors to the Iron Ridge Mine

Date: 1900
Description: Visitors, dressed in their Sunday best, contrast with the rough garb of the miners. Left to right, miners were: Charles Kanass, Robert "Beaver" Smith (hold...
Postcard

Ringling Brothers Circus Parade

Date: 
Description: Photographic postcard of an elevated view of the Circus Parade on a rainy day. Crowds of people line the street, and many are holding umbrellas.
Postcard

City Hall and Spring Street

Date: 1909
Description: Colorized postcard view down the unpaved street, with the city hall building on the corner on the right. Caption reads: "City Hall and Spring Street, Beave...
Postcard

Front Street, Looking East

Date: 
Description: Colorized postcard view down center of the street in the central business district. Horses and buggies are parked along the curbs, and pedestrians are on t...
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Horse-Drawn Sleigh

Date: 02 10 1901
Description: Winter scene with Herman Riebe, his four sisters, and a cousin riding in a bobsled pulled by a team of white horses through the snow. A fence, a snowy fiel...
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Krueger Family Outside a Barn

Date: 05 07 1903
Description: Edgar, Alexander, and Jennie Krueger standing outside a barn. A young colt named "Frank" is standing in front of Alexander. The colt's mother, "Flora," is ...
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Krueger Family with a Colt

Date: 05 07 1903
Description: Alexander Krueger family posing in a pasture with a colt named Frank. Alexander Krueger is standing behind the colt with one hand under its neck and the ot...
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Alexander Krueger Riding a Horse

Date: 04 04 1904
Description: Alexander Krueger riding a horse named Jim, while holding a rifle. Alexander is wearing a hat, a bandana around his neck, striped shirt, shotgun shell belt...
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Alexander Krueger on a Horse

Date: 04 04 1904
Description: Alexander Krueger riding a horse named Jim, while holding a rifle. Alexander is wearing a hat, bandana around his neck, striped shirt, shotgun shell belt, ...
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Sam Goetsch on Horseback

Date: 07 28 1901
Description: Sam Goetsch sitting on a horse in a fenced-in yard.
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Sam Goetsch on Horseback

Date: 07 28 1901
Description: Sam Goetsch sitting atop a horse in a fenced-in yard.
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Sam Goetsch on Horseback

Date: 07 28 1901
Description: Sam Goetsch sitting atop a horse in a fenced in yard.
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Flora Fels Weege on Horseback

Date: 1908
Description: Flora Fels Weege sitting on top of a horse holding a rifle. She is wearing a men's suit, a hat, and a belt holding ammunition.
Photograph

Flora Fels Weege Riding a Horse

Date: 1908
Description: Flora Fels Weege sitting on a white horse while wearing a man's suit, hat, and a belt containing ammunition. She has a rifle propped in her right arm.
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Spreading Manure

Date: 1908
Description: Alexander and August Krueger loading manure into a Litchfield manure spreader. Alexander is sitting on the spreader holding the reins of the three-horse te...
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Loading Hay

Date: 08 1898
Description: August and Alexander Krueger loading hay with pitchforks onto a wagon with a two-horse team attached. August is standing on top of the wagon while Alexande...
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Manure Spreader

Date: 1908
Description: Alexander and August Krueger spreading manure with a Litchfield spreader pulled by a three horse team. August is sitting on top of the spreader with the fa...
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Cutting Corn

Date: 1906
Description: August, Alexander, Jennie, and Edgar Krueger cutting corn using a Deering corn binder. Alexander is sitting on the binder holding the reigns attached to th...
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Using a Deering Corn Binder

Date: 1906
Description: August, Alexander, Jennie, and Edgar Krueger cutting corn using a Deering corn binder. Alexander is standing next to the three horse team while Edgar is si...
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Stacking Grain

Date: 1908
Description: Alexander and August Krueger stacking grain. Alexander is standing on top of a tall pile of hay on a wagon, piling grain on the stack, while August is stan...

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