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Beauty Queen Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1947
Description: A young woman dressed in a bathing suit and wading boots poses for a promotional photograph for the Wisconsin cranberry industry at Thunder Lake Marsh. Tw...
Photograph

Park House Hotel

Date: 1890
Description: View of the Park House Hotel (called the Commercial House before 1888), which burned down in 1892. Two people are sitting in a horse-drawn vehicle on the l...
Photograph

Carnegie Library

Date: 1937
Description: View of Carnegie Library on the corner of South Main Street and West Messenger, Rice Lake. Pedestrians are crossing the street, automobiles are parked alon...
Postcard

Depot on a Rainy Day

Date: 1908
Description: View across road towards the Chetek train depot on a rainy day. People are walking along the platform and walkway, some carrying umbrellas. Caption reads: ...
Postcard

Boating on Lake Chetek

Date: 
Description: Elevated view from shoreline looking over the roof of a building in the right foreground towards people in rowboats on Lake Chetek. The far shoreline is th...
Photograph

Occupational Therapy, Barron County Nursing Home

Date: 12 20 1963
Description: Four residents of the Barron County Nursing Home in Cumberland are making crafts around a table. A caption on the photograph reads: "This group in occupati...
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Chetek Opera House Poster

Date: 09 17
Description: Poster advertising a concert and dance at the Chetek Opera House on September 17th. Featured artists are The Rindlisbachers, Berith Rokstad, and the Skarni...

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