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Parts Mounted on Wall

Date: 01 29 1910
Description: Parts mounted on paper on brick wall.
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Consolidated Paper Company Offices

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Description: View of the Consolidated Paper Company Offices standing on the bank of the Wisconsin River. The Consolidated Paper Company formed in 1894.
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Paper Mill

Date: 01 1936
Description: Two large smokestacks rise from the 1903 building of the Rhinelander Paper Company. Railroad tracks are crossing the left foreground diagonally; a second s...
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Whiting-Plover Paper Company

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Description: Exterior view of Whiting-Plover Paper Company, founded in 1892. The view features a three-story brick building with automobiles parked in front.
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Consolidated Paper Company Offices and Mills

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Description: View across water toward the Consolidated Paper Company Offices and Mills, which formed in 1894. The buildings are on the bank of the Wisconsin River.
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Creamery

Date: 1922
Description: Exterior of a creamery. The building features a gambrel roof and awning.
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Plankinton Meat Packing Strike

Date: 04 20 1948
Description: Striking workers and police outside of Plankinton Meat Packing.
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Dismantled Twine Guide for Binder at McCormick Works

Date: 01 29 1910
Description: Dismantled twine guide for binder positioned on chair indoors in factory building. A paper backdrop is set up on the brick wall behind the chair.
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Car and Cold Storage Plant

Date: 08 11 1963
Description: Car parked in the lot of a cold storage plant.
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Smith and Winchester Manufacturing Company

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Description: View from across a lawn of Smith and Winchester Manufacturing Company buildings, producers of paper making machinery and laundry equipment. Caption reads: ...
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Wisconsin Power and Light Company Sub-Station

Date: 1929
Description: Power plant machinery in the Wisconsin Power and Light Company substation.
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Farmington and Hampshire Canal

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Description: View of the Farmington and Hampshire canal lined with factories and a road. The American Writing Paper Company is on the left.
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Creamery

Date: 1928
Description: View across road of two men posing outside a creamery. The creamery has a roofed loading dock on the side.
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Lawson Drafting Tables

Date: 1919
Description: Elevated view of drafting tables for aircraft design, presumably inside the Lawson plant. There are several stools, desks and tables set up in the corner o...
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Alfred Lawson with Palmer Cord Aero Tyre

Date: 1920
Description: Oval-framed portrait of Alfred Lawson standing behind a Palmer cord aero tyre, which he used for his 1920 Midnight Air Liner.
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Meat Market with Steer Painted on Wall

Date: 08 28 1966
Description: Kuebler Grocery Company, a meat market with a steer painted on its outside brick wall, on Main Street.
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Condensery

Date: 1925
Description: View across railroad tracks of a condensery building. The building features two-stories, a crow-stepping roof, and a tall chimney exhausting smoke. A railr...
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Public School — Construction

Date: 1922
Description: Construction workers pose at the entrance of the public school during construction.
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Red Mound Creamery

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Description: View from dirt road of a creamery. Two milk cans stand on a small loading dock. The road continues on through woods in the background.
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Building a Floor

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Description: An employee of Clay Products Association builds a floor in a building under construction. Two men stand on the left near a brick wall.

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