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Barron Coop Creamery

Date: 1900
Description: Two men pose at the Barron Coop Creamery next to the churns full of butter, which is ready to be packed into the small barrels nearby.
Photograph

Pabst Malt Extract

Date: 1903
Description: Eye catching Eagle Drugstore window display for Pabst Malt Extract, "The Best Tonic". An advertisement for this product stated that it was "the greatest to...
Postcard

La Salle Street

Date: 1905
Description: View of La Salle Street, looking east. Handwritten above a building in the center is "Library". Horse-drawn vehicles are along the right, and a person is d...
Postcard

Third Ward School

Date: 1900
Description: Front view of the Third Ward School. Caption reads: "Third Ward School, Barron, Wis."
Postcard

Cameron School

Date: 1905
Description: Front view of the Cameron school with a group of children gathered outside. Caption reads: "School House, Cameron, Wis."
Photograph

Methodist Episcopal Church in Cameron

Date: 1908
Description: View of the Methodist Episcopal church. A ladder is set on the side of the belfry. A house is next to the church on the right.
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Aerial View of Town

Date: 1905
Description: Aerial view of town, with several large buildings along railroad tracks in the foreground, and fields and trees in the distance. Pedestrians are walking al...
Photograph

Downtown Street in Cameron

Date: 1905
Description: Downtown street in Cameron, with buildings with awnings over the show windows, including Holmen Bros. Clothing store, Gent's Furnishings, and A. Haverstad'...
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Birds-Eye View of Cameron

Date: 1907
Description: Caption reads: "Birdseye [sic] View of Cameron Wisconsin." Railroad cars are on railroad tracks between buildings, and houses and what may be the hi...
Photograph

Elevated View of Cameron

Date: 1907
Description: Elevated view of Cameron. Rooftops are in the foreground, and an unpaved street is along the left. Railroad tracks cut across the street, with railroad car...
Photograph

Chetek Street

Date: 1905
Description: View down a snow-covered unpaved street in Chetek. Horse-drawn vehicles are along the right, and commercial buildings line both sides of the street. There ...
Photograph

Railroad Station

Date: 1900
Description: View across railroad tracks towards the railroad station for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railway Company. Men are standing on the platfor...
Postcard

Downtown Cumberland and Beaver Dam Lake

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of Cumberland with Beaver Dam Lake in the background. In the foreground is a street, and across the street is a church, a water tower and dwe...
Postcard

Second Avenue

Date: 1905
Description: View down unpaved street towards commercial buildings. There is a pavilion on the left, and two men are standing on the sidewalk on the right. Caption read...
Postcard

View of Haugen

Date: 1905
Description: View from side of road toward the town of Haugen, with a man on a horse-drawn wagon on the road in the foreground. Caption reads: "Haugen, Wis."
Postcard

Greetings from Haugen Wisconsin

Date: 1905
Description: Multiple views of Haugen, including a church, a school with a group of students posed outside, and a locomotive at the railroad station, etc. Caption at to...
Photograph

Rice Lake

Date: 1905
Description: View across street towards a long row of automobiles parked on the left side at an angle along the curb in front of storefronts.
Postcard

Elevated View of Rice Lake

Date: 1908
Description: Elevated view of the city of Rice Lake with a lumber yard in the foreground, a railroad and Rice Lake at left. Caption reads: "Rice Lake, Wisconsin."
Postcard

Railroad Station

Date: 1908
Description: Black and white postcard of a railroad station across from the Hotel Wells. Railroad tracks run between them, disappearing into the distance. There are tre...
Map or Atlas

Barron County, Wisconsin

Date: 1901
Description: This 1901 map of Barron County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, cities and villages, roads, railroads, and lakes and streams.

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