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Hotel, Holcombe, Wis.

Date: 1908
Description: View of a hotel in Holcombe with steps up to a porch with columns at the entrance, and a balcony above. A sign on the side of the building reads: "The Jour...
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Logging Scene

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Description: Two loggers and two draft horses standing near a tree stump. One man is on a sled with a log.
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Street Scene in Holcombe

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Description: View across unpaved street in Holcombe. There is a long row of parked automobiles in front of a barbershop at the end of the block. Laundry is drying on li...
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Pine Drive Resort

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Description: View across water towards a lakefront resort and boat landing. There are people in a few boats in the lake, and other boats tied up at piers. There is tave...
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Around the Fire

Date: 1940
Description: Boys are roasting weiners at a stone fire ring overlooking the Chippewa River in Brunet Island State Park. A man on the far right, behind trees, is walking...
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Problem Solved

Date: 01 04 1978
Description: A man on a ladder is using a snow rake to rake his roof. The ladder is propped against the portico of his house. Caption reads: "PROBLEM SOLVED — Homeowner...
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Chippewa Falls Deer Hunters

Date: 1947
Description: Five deer hunters are posing with their rifles and seven killed deer and one small animal (possibly a rabbit) hanging from a buck pole behind them. A log b...
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Holiday Shopper

Date: 1976
Description: Elderly man pulling a sled loaded with packages and bags. He is wearing a plaid coat. His dog is sniffing the snow. Trees cover a snow covered berm in the ...
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One of the First Homes Near Stanley

Date: 07 17 1909
Description: Caption reads: "One of the first Homes near Stanley, Wis." A log cabin with a wagon parked before it, with another building in the background on the left. ...
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Main Street, Looking North

Date: 1908
Description: Caption reads: "Main Street, Looking North, Stanley, Wis." View up unpaved street lined with businesses. Pedestrians are on the sidewalks. The Hotel Maine ...
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Arm Quiver

Date: 02 18 1955
Description: A man posing indoors with a drawn bow. He has a quiver with additional arrows affixed to his arm. Caption reads: "ACCLAIMED BY ARCHERS is this arm q...
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Emily Clapp Abbott

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of a woman. Caption reads: "ABBOTT, Mrs. Emily S. (wife Dr. S.W. Abbott) Emily Clapp Abbott b. May 25, 1832; died Chippewa Falls R...
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Edward Ackley

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Edward Flanders "Pete" Ackley, a Republican State Senator from Chippewa Falls, 1913-1916.
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H.S. Allen

Date: 1865
Description: Portrait of Hiram Stores Allen, a businessman and settler in the Chippewa Valley. In 1856 he surveyed and plotted the town of Chippewa Falls, for which rea...
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Marie De Marie Allen

Date: 1865
Description: Oval-framed quarter-length portrait of Marie De Marie Allen, wife of Chippewa Falls founder Hiram S. Allen.

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