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| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Two lumbermen posing with a two-man crosscut saw they are using on a fallen tree trunk, cutting the pine into manageable sizes for hauling. |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of men posing with ore carts on railroad tracks. One man is standing on the dirt in the cart to the right. They are possibly excavating more di... |
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