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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn wagons, including a water wagon, stand on a street next to a broad sidewalk in a commercial district. The storefronts of P.L. McQuillan and Con... |
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| Description: | Elevated view from south side of the Chippewa River, with a bridge crossing it and buildings on both sides of the river. A bluff rises on the far side of t... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Fire department steamer #1 fire engine, named after hotel proprietor J.A. Taylor. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the riverfront, railroad tracks, and river, "as viewed from Joseph McGuire's." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View from road of exterior of house on the H.S. Allen homestead. The house has a widow's walk and a wrap-around porch. There are many large trees on the pr... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The square, four-story brick Chippewa Shoe Company building, located at the intersection of Bay Street and River Street looking North. There is a fire esca... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Hoenig Brothers & Co. two-story hardware and undertaking storefront. A man stands to the left of the building. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An engraving of an elevated view of the Leinenkugel brewery, est. 1867, located at 5 Jefferson Avenue. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View from across street of the J.W. Mason hardware store, next to a barbershop. A horse and buggy are driving past the store. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | F.G. and C.A. Stanley Manufacturing Plant. There is a plank sidewalk in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Several buildings in the complex of the F.G. and C.A. Stanley Manufacturing Plant. The largest building is labeled "F.G. and C.A. Stanley." A smaller build... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Logs floating down the river beneath the bridge on the Chippewa River. On the far shoreline are billboards. One advertises for "J.R. Sharp Hardware." Men a... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Elevated winter view of the Leinenkugel Brewery seen "from top of Mill." Originally called "Spring Brewery," Jacob Leinenkugel opened his brewery in 1867 i... |
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| Description: | Several men stand on or near the porch of Glen and Star's Mill. A utility pole is to the left of the building and a line of other buildings stretches off i... |
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| Description: | Footbridge spanning the Chippewa River near Brunet Falls (now Cornell Falls) |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with William Irvine (1851-1927) seated in his sleigh next to his daughter Ruth (1891-1987) wearing a hat and wrapped in furs, Chippewa Falls, ... |
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| Description: | View across river of several houses and other buildings standing at the edge of the Chippewa River. One building has stilts supporting the back porch over ... |
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| Description: | The Chippewa Spring House, a small round building with a conical roof with a sign over the door reading "Chippewa Spring," sitting off to the side of a dir... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | The river steamer Chippewa drawn up alongside shore on the West Eau Claire Levee. The steamer was built by Captain E.E. Heerman at La Crosse in 1866... |
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