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| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Eight men are in a boat driving logs down the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Wausau, looking north with ninety-eight businesses, industries, churches, schools, and civic buildings identified in location key below i... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Notable University of Wisconsin pharmacist Edward Kremers relaxes on a bench in a park near the time of the Wisconsin Pharmacy State Convention in 1916. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Man delivering serviced bowling balls from an International Scout truck. The truck was owned by Day's Bowl-A-Dome. |
| Date: | September 13 1949 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Lawrence College students tobogganing at Rib Mountain near Wausau. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View of Scott Street, looking westward. A horse-drawn carriage is parked near a large sign for a drugstore. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | House on the corner in fall or early spring. Yawkey house was given by the A.P. Woodson family of Wausau to house the museum of the Marathon County Histori... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Water churns under a railroad bridge as the spring thaw swells the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Dr. Joseph Smith reads at his desk in his office in the Wisconsin Valley Trust Building. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Mary E. Smith, wife of Dr. Joseph Smith, arranges flowers for the holidays. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | View of a large Columbus Day parade from Jackson and Third Streets. In the extreme right foreground is Conrad Althen's Store, and the Anderson and Larson S... |
| Date: | August 1928 |
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| Description: | John P. Wood of Wausau, winner of the 1928 National Air Reliability Tour, with his "Waco from Wausau." Also in the photograph are Wood's prizes: the Edsel... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | The groundbreaking ceremony for the new airport hangar at Wausau. Governor Fred R. Zimmerman, who can be seen on the right (elevated above the crowd and we... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Race winners John P. Wood and Archie Towell, both of Wausau, during the National Air Reliability Tour's stop in Wausau. |
| Date: | August 13 1928 |
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| Description: | An exhibition of flying by the 1st Pursuit Squadron of the U.S. Army Air Corps. The event took place at Marathon Park because President Calvin Coolidge, wh... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | This map is a bird's-eye view of Wausau, the County Seat of Marathon County. The map features an index of points of interest. |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards the railroad depot. The employees posed in front of the depot are identified only by their last names, left to right: L... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Workers preparing ginseng beds in northern Wisconsin. |
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| Description: | Portrait of man smoking a pipe. Probably Robert A. Steinbach (b.1887?), a singer of German folk songs, who recorded for song collector Helene Stratman-Thom... |
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