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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A man is farming a hillside using a McCormick grain binder led by a team of two horses. |
| Date: | 02 18 1909 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Creamery, Story, Wis." Two men pose in front of a two-story, clapboard creamery with a lean-to. The building has a cupola and a stair... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Map shows townships and sections, landownership and acreages, rural routes, roads, railroads, creameries, churches, schools, and town halls. Sections appea... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | View along the Catfish River, with shrubs and grasses covering the riverbank. On the far left are electrical poles along a dirt road bordering a field that... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Hurley, WI and nearby industrial sites (Scott & Howe Lumber Co. Mill, Ashland Mine). Inventory reads: "Looking west and a little south ove... |
| Date: | 09 1902 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of farmers with horse-drawn wagons waiting to ship their harvest goods, probably potatoes, at an unidentified town. There are railroad tracks... |
| Date: | 05 16 1908 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a two-floor school building with a covered front entrance underneath a bell tower. Snow is on the ground. Caption reads: "School B... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Two sled loads of logs each drawn by teams of two horses at Bruno Vinett's logging camp. Drivers sit atop the loads. The ground is covered with snow. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Old Parfreyville Mill on Crystal River. Waupaca, Wis." A wooden mill on the banks of a river with a grass and tree covered shoreline. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Five men stand on or nearby a sled loaded with logs and pulled by two horses at the landing at Hein's logging camp. There is snow on the ground. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View of the side of a mill. The mill has a large awning over a loading dock. A man with a beard and a hat stands near the side of the mill. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Paper Mill Road, Showing Plover Paper Mill, Stevens Point, Wis." View of an unpaved road leading to a paper mill on the Wisconsin Riv... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | A man sits atop a very high load of logs on a sled pulled by three horses. There is snow on the ground. Numbers are written on the cut ends of the logs. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Tennis Court, Timmer's Shore." Two men playing tennis on the lawn at a resort on Big Cedar Lake. Trees and the lake are in the backgr... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | A man stands atop a sled load of logs drawn by two horses at Hein's Logging Camp. Several other men stand atop large pile of logs behind him. Snow lies on ... |
| Date: | 01 13 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Neshonoc Falls, West Salem, Wis." The Neshonoc Dam, powerhouse and spillway on the La Crosse River. The powerhouse was built after 18... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Lake Geneva from the south extending to Waukesha and Milwaukee in the north. Delavan Lake and Lake Como are identified. Several electric... |
| Date: | 10 23 1909 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Scene Near Rice Lake, Wis." Five lumberjacks pose with a load of logs on a sled pulled by horses. Two skids lean against the logs. Th... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Clam Lake From Camp Northland, Siren, Wis." Four people are in a rowboat and two more are fishing at the end of the pier. Several more rowb... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Old Bridge and Dell House, built in 1837, Wisconsin Dells." The Dell Bridge, first to span the Wisconsin River at the Narrows, was bu... |
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