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| Date: | 10 1939 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Wolf River Paper Company factory, including smokestacks and a water tower. |
| Date: | 10 1939 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards the opposite shoreline of the Wolf River Paper Company factory complex on the Wolf River. |
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| Description: | Stacks of logs are in the foreground with a man in a hat near the river. There is a chimney billowing smoke near the factory. |
| Date: | 09 17 1961 |
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| Description: | View of the Gresham Cooperative Feed Mill. A residential house is visible in the background. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Text on the front reads: "Wolf River Paper & Fiber Co., Shawano, Wis." Industrial buildings with a millpond in the foreground. The mill was founded in 1894... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of A.K. Porter, a poultry breeder and egg dealer from Shawano, Wisconsin, with an image of a rooster and a chicken. Printed on lined note paper. |
| Date: | 09 17 1961 |
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| Description: | A small, stone house with a miniature water wheel. Caption on negative jacket reads, "Miniature water wheel which generates electricity to light the reside... |
| Date: | 05 13 1914 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Car of 4 1/2 inch, 13 inch and wider, 1st and 2nd Hard Maple Plank." Three men are standing on a horse-drawn lumber wagon full of pla... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Rural Route No. 3 in Bonduel, Wisconsin, with a man driving a U.S. R.F.D. mail wagon along a road by a fenced yard, a barn, and a mailbox. Pr... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Post Office at Tigerton, Wisconsin, with a stock Chinoiserie image of a man standing and a woman holding a fan sitting in either a boat o... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Exterior of a hotel, with bright metal siding in full sunlight. An elderly man is seated in a chair outside. Behind the hotel on the left is what appears t... |
| Community: | Shawano |
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| County: | Shawano |
| Historic Name: | John C. Black House |
| Reference Number: | 22208 |
| Promotions on Paper, 1850s-1975 |
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| Custom-designed letterheads were a universal way of proclaiming who you were. Historical letterheads are prime examples of early branding. |
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