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Young Boys in Boat

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Description: Two boys, probably brothers, using a small boat with outboard motor.
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Two Men in Bathing Suits

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Description: Two men in bathing suits pose for portrait. They have their arms around each other and are smiling.
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Stock Fair

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of the monthly Stock Fair. The roof of a building is in the left foreground. Horse-drawn wagons line the street, and there is a large buildin...
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World Series Traffic Jam

Date: 1957
Description: Elevated view of city traffic of bumper-to-bumper cars leaving Milwaukee County Stadium after the 1957 World Series.
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Kids on Roller Skates

Date: 06 26 1986
Description: Kids make a "train," with the bicyclist in the front pulling three girls on roller skates along a sidewalk.
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Open Hearth Lead Furnace

Date: 1872
Description: Galena (lead sulfide) was melted at this open hearth furnace owned by Richard Straw and Company on the Roundtree Branch of the Little Platte River. The men...
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Pit at Lead Mine

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Description: Pit at Hazel Green lead mine.
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Postal Employees Demand Higher Wages

Date: 08 1919
Description: View down long line of workers from the United States Postal Service demonstrating for an increase in salary to meet war-time cost of living increases.
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Suffragists Wearing Bloomers

Date: 1903
Description: Ada James (kneeling, far right), of Richland Center, Wisconsin, with friends Mrs. Lucille Tappan Moreland of Kansas City, Missouri; Mrs. G.B. Longan, autho...
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St. Croix River

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Description: Wanigans tied to the banks of the St. Croix River among floating logs.
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Red Cliff Reservation Cemetery

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Description: Man posing by a gate in the Red Cliff Indian Reservation cemetery.
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Gogebic Range Miners

Date: 1886
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Gogebic Range iron miners.
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Odanah Railroad Bridge

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Description: A Northwestern Railroad train pulled by locomotive #967 across a bridge with steel supports.
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Green Bay & Western Railroad Roundhouse

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view of the Green Bay & Western Railroad roundhouse.
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Beer Drinkers

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Description: A group of men near the Koss railroad depot, the majority of whom are seated on the ground. One of the men is sitting on a piano stool. To the right of the...
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Wisconsin Central Freight Cars

Date: 05 05 1897
Description: Elevated view of Wisconsin Central freight cars in a rural storage yard near Manitowoc.
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Railroad Bridge over Tomahawk River

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Description: View from shoreline towards the Soo Line railroad bridge crossing the Tomahawk River at Bradley, Wisconsin. The bridge, built in 1886, was 126 ft. long and...
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Rail Crossing at Elroy

Date: 09 1936
Description: Chicago & Northwestern Railroad train crossing the Elroy-New Lisbon Road (Highway 80).
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Horseshoe Curve near Ableman

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Description: View of a passenger train coming down the tracks at the Horseshoe Curve. Rock Springs was called Ableman until 1947.
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Soo Round House at Abbottsford

Date: 1909
Description: The Soo line roundhouse. Caption reads: "Soo Round House, Abbottsford, Wis."

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