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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 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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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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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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Nurse Instructs Mothers about Shoes

Date: 1937
Description: A nurse instructs two mothers about baby shoes.
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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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Logging Camp Crew

Date: 1905
Description: Logging crew posed in snow at a logging camp.
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Men in Wood Shop

Date: 10 18 1937
Description: Workers use machinery inside a woodworking shop owned by H.P. Ghent. An International P-12 power unit is on the left side of the room.
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Scrap Drive Participants Outside IH Dealership

Date: 1942
Description: Two men involved in a scrap drive stand near the door of an International Harvester dealership. There are posters in the window. Next to the man on the rig...
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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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Children

Date: 1926
Description: An off-centered group portrait of schoolchildren and an adult female in a forest setting.
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Class Portrait

Date: 1926
Description: Group portrait of schoolchildren with an adult female in a forest setting.
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School Children Group Portrait

Date: 1926
Description: Group portrait of schoolchildren with an adult female in a forest setting.
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Dairy Queen Cheese Food, Label

Date: 09 06 1944
Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Features an image of a woman wearing a crown. Label is in blue with a cream backgroun...
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Armory Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

Date: 05 12 1990
Description: Wisconsin Adjutant General Jerald Slack cuts the ribbon to dedicate a new armory. With him (left) are Abbotsford Mayor, Duane Grube, and Congressman David ...
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Obey at the Fair

Date: 1976
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey chats with a constituent manning the dairy bar as part of a campaign shoot.

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