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Lumber Raft on the Chippewa River

Date: 1870
Description: Elevated view of lumber raft and workers on the Chippewa River. In the background on the right are dwellings.
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Log Driving Crew

Date: 1905
Description: Log driving crew for the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company. Crew members are in the process of breaking a jam at the Big Eddy. One of the men is carrying a yo...
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Huge Log Jam

Date: 1869
Description: Elevated view from steep shoreline of a log jam of about 150 million feet of logs, stopped at the piers of Pound, Halbert, and Co., which stood in about 40...
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Trail Through Pines

Date: 1905
Description: Trail through the pines between Chippewa Falls and Long Lake, Chippewa County.
Painting

Chippewa Falls

Date: 1850
Description: Painting depicting Chippewa Falls and the first sawmill on the Chippewa River, built by Jean Brunet. The residence of H.S. Allen, one of the owners of the...
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Hand Engine of Volunteer Fire Department

Date: 1887
Description: Peter Selb, Ben Dietrich, J.A. Lockwood, Matt Dietrich, and John Downing pose around the hand engine of the volunteer fire department. All but Selb were ch...
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Lumberyard in Ruby

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of men, women, and a child posing on boards at a lumbering and sawmill operation. The camp was operated by Edward Hahn, who named the communi...
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Herreman Drugstore

Date: 1918
Description: Rial Herreman, Sr. and Rial Herreman, Jr. inside the Herreman Drugstore in Boyd, Wisconsin.
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Herreman Drugstore, Interior

Date: 1918
Description: Detailed interior view of the Herreman Drugstore in Boyd, Wisconsin.
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In the Laboratory

Date: 1920
Description: Rial Herreman prepares a mixture in the laboratory of his drugstore in Boyd, Wisconsin.
Manuscript

Chippewa Spring Sanitorium Hotel

Date: 
Description: Front cover of Prospectus of The Chippewa Spring Sanitorium Hotel. An illustration of the hotel is included along with the words: "Health, Rest, And Joy".
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of the City of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

Date: 1874
Description: Bird's-eye map of Chippewa Falls.
Photograph

Hollon Richardson

Date: 
Description: First Lieutenant Hollon Richardson of the 7th Wisconsin Volunteers, Company A, Iron Brigade.
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Milk Strike at Stanley

Date: 1932
Description: Crowd gathered for the milk strike at Stanley.
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Duncan Creek

Date: 1900
Description: View from shoreline of Duncan Creek, a dam, and a flour mill.
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Duncan Creek

Date: 1920
Description: View from shoreline of Duncan Creek, with an old dam and on the oppostie shoreline, the residence of Fred Adler, the owner of a brewery and a store in the ...
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Kierig-Babbitt Building in Bloomer

Date: 1956
Description: Exterior view of the Kierig-Babbitt building, built in 1880.
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East Main Street in Bloomer

Date: 1905
Description: East Main Street, including the H. Werner store.
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Methodist Episcopal Church

Date: 1895
Description: View of Methodist Episcopal Church or Emma Suxton Memorial Church.
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Irvine Park Bandstand

Date: 1930
Description: Bandstand in Irvine Park.

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