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| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | The county and city of Florence were named for Florence Hulst, the wife of an early settler. This view illustrates the two industries, mining and lumbering... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Front entrance of the Florence County Court House. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | School children pose for a group portrait in front of a school. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Florence from across Fisher Lake, with several people standing below on the shoreline. Caption reads: "Florence, Wis. from across Fisher L... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Field and trees and water are in the foreground. On the far shoreline are buildings in the town. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Tamarack tree located in Florence County marking the beginning of the State Boundary. |
| Date: | 02 09 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of wagons filled with cotton bales in the street at market. |
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| Description: | Tomb of General John Coffee (1772-1833), who fought in the Indian Wars and the War of 1812. Published by Joseph Milner & Son, Druggists. |
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| Description: | Exterior frontal view of The Forks of Cypress, a Greek Revival style plantation designed by architect William Nichols and completed in 1830. The main resi... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Group of surveyors from the Agricultural Department at the University of Wisconsin posing on the back platform of their railroad car 404, "the Palace Car."... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Thirteen men and boys pose in a line with their bicycles. Most of the group poses with similar bicycles, except for one man standing with a penny-farthing ... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | View along Central Avenue. There are a number of commercial buildings with false fronts. Groups of people stand near the road on the left and right. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a boarding house in the woods surrounded by a pole fence. Hand-written on the reverse: "First Boarding house of Florence, Erected March 1st,... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | A man is lifting a snow fence in ankle deep snow. In the background is a tree covered hill. |
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