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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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Wisconsin Central Train

Date: 1882
Description: Group of men posing in front of the Wisconsin Central Railroad train at a depot. Railroad historian Roy L. Martin, from whose collection this image come...
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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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Fairchild & Northeastern Train at Greenwood

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Description: View from shoreline of the Fairchild & Northeastern steam locomotive pulling a load of logs over the Black River bridge near Greenwood. A man is standing o...
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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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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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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: 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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Children Collecting Scrap at North Bright School

Date: 1942
Description: Children collecting scrap deposit it on a trailer outside the front door of North Bright School. A sign on the school announces: "MacArthur Week Scrap Coll...
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Tornado Damage

Date: 1924
Description: Damage caused by a tornado to a barn near Reseburg. The caption notes that the farm was rented and that "moonshine" was being made there. Some locals at t...
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AL. Strebe Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Al. Strebe, dealer of Overland and Willys-Knight automobiles in Abbotsford, Wisconsin, with side views of women driving and riding in two aut...
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Wisconsin Central Railroad Locomotive No. 257

Date: 1901
Description: Wisconsin Central locomotive no. 257 (left) and Abbotsford and Northeastern Railroad locomotive No.1. The engineer is Lew Choate and the fireman is Ole "Ji...
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The Spaulding, Van Hoosier & Company Sawmill

Date: 1890
Description: Men pose on top of and in front of the Spaulding, Van Hoosier & Company Sawmill.
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Street Scene in Dorchester, Wis.

Date: 1911
Description: View from unpaved street towards the Alb. R. Schwahn building on a corner. There are pedestrians on the sidewalk, and horse-drawn vehicles are parked near ...
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Snow Plow That Did the Work at Dorchester, Wis.

Date: 03 18 1917
Description: Photographic postcard view of a group of people standing in front of two locomotives, the one on the right with a snowplow attached. Caption reads: "Snow P...
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Judging Horses

Date: 1925
Description: View across unpaved road towards a Native American man wearing a plaid overcoat with two work horses. A crowd of men are watching from the elevated wooden ...
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Logging Scene

Date: 1903
Description: Group of people standing around a tall stack of logs chained together on a sled. People are in a horse-drawn sled on the right. Caption reads: "Logging Sce...
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North Main Street

Date: 08 12 1912
Description: Text on front reads: "North Main St., Thorp, Wis." Storefronts with awnings line an unpaved street with paved sidewalks, a horse-drawn wagon travels down t...
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Catholic Church

Date: 1921
Description: Caption reads: "Catholic Church, Thorp, Wis." St. Bernard Catholic Church is a brick church built in 1914. In 1974 the parish was combined with St. Hedwig ...

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