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Stage in front of Coon Valley Store

Date: 1892
Description: Caption: "Stage driven by William C. Alden stopping in front of Coon Valley store on the route between Viroqua to Muscoda and La Crosse. Alden drove the st...
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Business Section

Date: 1928
Description: View across commercial street looking south. Parked at the curb are cars, and driving along the street is a bearded man with a horse and buggy. The shops a...
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Depot and Train

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Description: View down railroad tracks of a busy scene at the train depot. A train is arriving at the crowded platform. On the side of the depot a man sits on a cart, n...
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Mr. and Mrs. William Roddy

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Description: Elevated view of group of people at a livery. A man and woman, possibly Mr. And Mrs. William Roddy, are posed sitting in a buggy pulled by two horses in fr...
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Unpaved Business Street

Date: 1900
Description: An unpaved Potosi street in winter. There are unidentified men standing in front of a building, and in the distance are carriages with horses.
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Team of Horses Pulling a Farmer on a Wagon

Date: 1910
Description: A farmer is squinting against the sun while sitting on a low seat on a two-wheeled cart. Another team of horses are on the right. A large brick building is...
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Farmer's Market

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Description: Elevated view of the farmer's market on East Washington Avenue near storefronts. Many horse-drawn buggies and wagons are lined up on both sides of the aven...
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State Street

Date: 1918
Description: Street view of the north side of State Street, west of 6th Street. The second frame house from the right was once occupied as an office by Victor L. Berger...
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Gathering Crowd

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of crowd of men, women and children, gathered for some unidentified occasion, standing in the street. There is also a group of people gathere...
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Men Posing in the New Street

Date: 1889
Description: Elevated view of group gathered and posed on a new street. Behind the group is a large pile of lumber, wooden sidewalks, and what appear to be newly-constr...
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Farmer's Course, Street View

Date: 1910
Description: View of horse-drawn carriages and sleds racing down a snowy street lines with storefronts. A large crowd is in the distance.
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Man Working on IH Truck at Dealership

Date: 05 03 1927
Description: A man wearing a long jacket and a hat is working on the engine of a truck. A work cart is in the foreground.
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Big Flood in Oconto

Date: 04 10 1922
Description: Two women are walking through floodwaters from the Oconto River. A horse-drawn carriage with its wheels halfway underwater is in the background near the Oc...
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Location Shooting for "Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man"

Date: 1961
Description: A man standing on a log cart, holding the reins for a horse team. Other people are in the foreground and background. Shopfronts for Tiny's Saloon and Brigg...
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Location Shooting for "Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man"

Date: 1961
Description: View of a street, with shop fronts, a horse-drawn carriage, and automobiles. Several people are in the background. Caption reads: "Saxon Wis 1961. 20th Cen...

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