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Fairchild and Northeastern Railroad Depot

Date: 1913
Description: Depot owned by the Fairchild and Northeastern Railroad, which was owned by the N.C. Foster Lumber Company.
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Fairchild and Northeastern Railroad Depot

Date: 1905
Description: Fairchild and Northeastern Railroad depot, with first train into Willard on the Fairchild and Northeastern Line.
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Teacher and Students participating in World War II Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Eight North Bright School pupils and teacher filling International truck and trailer with scrap metal collected for salvage drive during Governor Julius P....
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Train Wreck

Date: 05 24 1912
Description: Wreck of a Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault St. Marie Railroad train on a bridge over the Black River near Withee. The damage is so severe that the cars have ...
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Wisconsin Central Pile Driver Car

Date: 1907
Description: Wisconsin Central locomotive No #50 and pile driver No #2 working near Owen. Men stand on and around the tracks.
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Owen Railroad Depot

Date: 1919
Description: The office of the Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad. Left to right: Bert Spaulding, an Owen business man; mail clerk Frank Dick; L.H. Lu...
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Ice-Damaged Railroad Bridge

Date: 04 04 1913
Description: Elevated view of the Soo Line train crossing a bridge over the Black River near Withee. The three x's indicate places where the bridge had been damaged by ...
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Locomotive

Date: 1910
Description: Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie railroad locomotive #2024, originally the Wisconsin Central Railroad #89, built by the Schenectady Locomotive Wo...
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Sawmill, N.C. Foster

Date: 1905
Description: Sawmill with trees, stumps, and lumber in the snow.
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Gathering Maple Syrup

Date: 1945
Description: Two men and a child in Granton (vicinity), Clark County, Wisconsin. They are gathering maple syrup with a horse-drawn sled.
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Methodist Episcopal Church and Parsonage

Date: 1900
Description: Methodist Episcopal Church and parsonage built under Rev. G.N. Foster.
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Methodist Episcopal Church and Parsonage

Date: 1910
Description: Methodist Episcopal Church and parsonage built under Rev. G.N. Foster. Groups of people are standing on the entrance steps, and others are standing on the ...
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Thorp, Wisconisn

Date: 1910
Description: Main Street looking north.
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Nurse Instructs Mothers about Shoes

Date: 1937
Description: A nurse instructs two mothers about baby shoes.
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Reed School

Date: 1948
Description: Reed School teacher, Mrs. Orvilla Zillic, and her 17 students pose for a photograph. Built in 1915, the school became the Wisconsin Historical Society's 10...
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Sennett and Winslow Capture

Date: 11 17 1947
Description: The family whose farm was the location where the alleged murderers were captured is pictured left to right: Anthony Pomputis, a friend of Robert Winslow, (...
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Sennett and Winslow Capture

Date: 11 17 1947
Description: Neighbors of the Pomputis family and newspaper reporters wait on a highway near the farm where the confessed murderers were hiding.
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Sennett and Winslow Capture

Date: 11 17 1947
Description: Sheriff Edward (Ace) Fischer, prisoner Robert Winslow, and Officer Ray Case, seated in an automobile with a man and woman looking in the window.
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Sennett and Winslow Capture

Date: 11 17 1947
Description: Buford Sennett, confessed murderer, soon after his capture at the Pomputis farm, sitting between a police officer and the driver of the car.
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Sennett and Winslow Capture

Date: 11 17 1947
Description: The farm of the Pomputis family near Longwood, where Sennett and Winslow hid out and were captured.

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