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Pig Freight Car on the Soo Line

Date: 1917
Description: Group of people standing in front of a Soo Line freight car that was used by the railroad to promote hog transportation. This photograph was donated to the...
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Traveling Library Depository

Date: 1897
Description: Interior view of a traveling library depository.
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Traveling Library Station

Date: 1897
Description: Interior view including traveling library station with map of Wisconsin on the wall.
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Colfax Messenger Printing Office

Date: 
Description: Messenger printing office on a street lined with elm trees.
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Growin' a Beard

Date: 08 21 1964
Description: Mrs. Harold Olson examines the beards of Leon Dunbar, Louis Christianson, Dick Toycen and Perley Entzminger. They are standing on the 500 block of Main Str...
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Farmers Waiting to Load Their Goods

Date: 1898
Description: Farmers with their loads waiting to ship on train number 40 at Colfax, Wisconsin. "An everyday occurrence at 3:50 pm during September and October."
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Railroad Depot

Date: 1900
Description: View across railroad tracks towards passengers, a large group of men and one young girl, waiting on the platform at the train station for the train to arri...
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Elevated View of Railroad Depot

Date: 08 1902
Description: Elevated view of the railroad depot taken from the wooden shake roof of a building. On the right are railroad tracks, depot buildings, grain storage and a ...
Postcard

Wagon Bridge, Colfax, Wis.

Date: 1914
Description: Black and white photographic postcard looking up river towards the Wagon Bridge. Caption reads: "Wagon Bridge, Colfax, Wis."

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