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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... |
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| Description: | A woman uses a spinning wheel outdoors while a barefoot girl stands on a porch behind her. Published by Jos. Milner & Son. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of M.H. Wheeler, a lumberman from Florence, Wisconsin, with a man standing on a load of logs, holding the reins for two horses harnessed to the ... |
| Date: | 08 02 1895 |
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| Description: | A hardwood forest ten miles southwest of Florence, containing hard maple, birch, elm, oak, hemlock, and other types of timber. Two men are leaning against ... |
| Date: | 08 02 1895 |
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| Description: | Two men stand waist-high in the cabbage, pea, and oat fields of the C.C. Washburn homestead, twelve miles southwest of Florence. Wooden houses or outbuildi... |
| Date: | 08 02 1895 |
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| Description: | On the farm of C.W. Washburn, two men pose by a apple tree in full fruit. A man (with his back to the camera) and a farm building are in the background. |
| Date: | 08 02 1895 |
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| Description: | Ephraim Watt, his wife Rhoda Adelaide Watt (née Mosher), and their daughter, Glendora Eunice Watt, pose in front of their log home, 14 miles southwest of F... |
| 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: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Public building improvement under the state Civil Works Administration, project number 14. Carpenter and painter at work. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Prophylactic Brush Company, with examples of a hair brush, a tooth brush, and a hand brush, in or alongside the boxed packaging. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A group of men driving logs down the Brule. Caption reads: "Log Drive on Brule River, Near Florence, Wis." |
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| Description: | View of a waterfall with a man fishing from the top. Caption reads: "Michigamme Falls, Near Florence, Wis." |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the side view of a mine. Several horse-drawn wagons are waiting for loads with workmen. Hills of soil surround a flat area, and on the horiz... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the interior view of a factory. Machinery, materials, gantries, chain hoists, chains, cables, line shafts, and equipment fill the structure.... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of an elevated view of a mining operation. Men are posing on the head frame/gallows frame over the pit. One man is perching on the top of the g... |
| 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,... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a railroad crew laying tracks. The ties are in place and the rails are being positioned on the first level. The bank behind the crew is terr... |
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