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Three Women and Two Men

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Description: Outdoor portrait of three women and two men, all posing sitting on a wooden platform, perhaps in a lumber yard. A large open shed structure and stacks of t...
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European American Family and Their Home

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Description: Outdoor group portrait in an unidentified location of a group posing in the yard of wooden house. There is a man and a woman sitting in the center, each ho...
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Group in front of Sawmill

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Description: Large group of men, women, and children posed standing and sitting in front of an open sawmill.
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J.S. Stearns Lumber Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the J.S. Stearns Lumber Company of Odanah, Wisconsin, manufacturers of "Indian Reservation Soft Pine and Norway Lumber" and general merchandi...
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Men and Women Surrounded by Debris

Date: 06 12 1899
Description: In the foreground a small group of men and women stand surrounded by the debres from a tornado. Storm damaged houses and relief workers are visible in the ...
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Group of People on a Bridge

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Description: View from shoreline of people, men, women and children, gathered in groups on a wooden bridge. A sign in the middle of the bridge reads: "$50 Fine for Cutt...
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Building Floor for Tent at the Hemlocks

Date: 1916
Description: A group of men are building the wood floor for the tented campsite on the Island. In the background, a group of women and children are watching constructio...
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Onalaska, Wisconsin - A Brief History

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Group Clearing Debris

Date: 06 12 1899
Description: A man works to clear debris in the aftermath of a tornado. Other men, women and children are gathered nearby.
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Group in front of Sawmill

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Description: Two men, two women, a girl, and a dog posed standing next to a man displaying two oxen. In the background are two men posed sitting on a wagon loaded with ...
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"Jim" Wright Exclaims

Date: 1921
Description: Wearing a wide brimmed hat, Jim Wright has his mouth wide open, and is looking at the palm of his left hand and pointing in the air with his right hand. Be...
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Arpin Lumber Co. Sawmill

Date: 1890
Description: 90,000 feet of pine logs floating in the storage/sorting pond at the Arpin Lumber Company sawmill. The sawmill and other buildings are in the background. O...
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Lath Mill

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Description: View down hill of three women, three men, and a boy and girl posed standing in different locations around a sawmill by a shoreline, possibly the Lath Mill....
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Lumberyard in Ruby

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of men, women, and a child posing on boards at a lumbering and sawmill operation. The camp was operated by Edward Hahn, who named the communi...
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Tornado Damaged House

Date: 06 12 1899
Description: A woman and her young daughter stand in a yard examining a house in the aftermath of a tornado. The house has one entire side missing, a tree leans over on...
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Captain Edwards Leaving

Date: 06 18 1918
Description: Captain Edwards (r) is standing at the train station with from left to right: W.A. Holt, Alfred or Donald Holt, and a woman, possibly Madeline Wood. In the...
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Cherries in Bloom

Date: 05 25 1919
Description: The photographer's wife Clothilde admires the view of the Gibraltar Orchard in full bloom. The is a pile of lumber on the left; stones are piled under tree...
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W.H. Rogers Lumber Co. Camp

Date: 1900
Description: Lumber camp group, W.H. Rogers Lumber Co., near Nashville.
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Log Steps Up to the Horse-Drawn Wagon

Date: 1918
Description: Juliet Rumsey Stroh is standing on a step leading up to the horse-drawn wagon, and three boys are standing on the top log step. A man and a woman are sitti...
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Logging Camp

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Description: A group of people, presumably loggers and camp employees, pose with horses at a logging camp. A muddy puddle is in the foreground, and behind the group are...

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