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Filter: County of Oconto
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| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Threshing on the Henry Johnson farm. This threshing rig owned by Michael Ehlinger was the first to be used in the township. Standing on the separator from ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Church of Christ, Scientist, built in 1886, the first Christian Scientist church outside of Boston, Massachusetts, and the first building erected in Americ... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | First Presbyterian Church, which burned in 1890. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Men standing along the bar of local saloon owned by Liegeois Brothers. Blacksmith Joseph Liegeois, Jr. and his brother John are on the end of the bar. John... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Group of men staging an accident. Two men stand nearby watching as three other men pose on the wheels of an overturned vehicle. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Interior of shop. John Liegeois is sitting on bench, Louis is at wheel. A young child with a hat sits on a bench, and another man is also standing near the... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | View across road toward the First Christian Science Church entrance and left side. Vertical siding covers the structure, and latticework and chevron stripe... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | View across water toward the sawmill and various outbuildings located on the Oconto River. Steam is rising from a large pipe over over the main building, a... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View of two lakeside cottage, which have docks and porches that overlook the lake. Caption reads: "Birch Walk, Kelly Lake, Wis." |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Large piles of logs waiting to be processed into lumber sit next to the Oconto River. In the background stand what appear to be piles of cut lumber. Captio... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of cottages along Kelly Lake's shoreline. Some of the buildings are two-story structures. Trees stand between the cottages and line the lake'... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View toward three cottages along the tree-lined shore of Kelly Lake at Underwood Point. Small docks with boats are along the shoreline. A wooden bench with... |
| Date: | 07 09 1895 |
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| Description: | A twenty-acre field of barley on the farm of Chas Parey, with two men standing waist-high in the barley. A hardwood forest lines the edge of the field in t... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | This map, originally published in the 1881 Illustrated historical atlas of Wisconsin, shows the township and range system, sections,towns, cities and villa... |
| Explore Lake Life in Northern Wisconsin with the Holt Family |
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| Photographs of Public Libraries in Wisconsin |
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| Learn about how the Wisconsin Free Library Commission helped to establish and improve free public libraries in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View down platform of Lakewood train station, with two men standing near a doorway on the left near two sacks. Another man is further down the platform ben... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Three cousins are sitting at a table eating a meal on the porch at the Island Lodge on Archibald Lake. Names from left to right are: Harriet Stroh, Margare... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View across the water towards George Holt paddling a clinker-built duck boat on Archibald Lake. Caption reads: "At sea." |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Mary Matilda Rumsey visiting "The Hermit" island, where George H. Holt had a summer cottage on Archibald Lake. Caption reads: "A 'Friend.'" |
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