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Customers in front of Cooperative Marketing Store

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Description: Customers standing in front of the Cooperative Marketing Store.
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Bong on Leave

Date: 1943
Description: Elvated view of war hero Richard Ira Bong (center, in flight jacket) on leave in Poplar, with friends, relatives, and admirers. The group is walking down a...
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View of Superior, Wisconsin

Date: 1885
Description: Illustrated view of Superior, as well as Omaha, Kansas City, St. Paul, and Winnipeg. Caption reads: "Superior - The Last Possible Great Marine City in the ...
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Little Manitou Falls, Pattison State Park

Date: 1938
Description: Little Manitou Falls on the Black River. Referred to as the "upper falls" in the park. A person is sitting on the rocks on top of the falls. This waterfall...
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Ida Banon Relles and Son George at George's Bar Mitzvah

Date: 1961
Description: Ida Banon Relles and son George at George's Bar Mitzvah, Superior Hebrew Congregation.
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Relles Family Portrait

Date: 1962
Description: Relles family portrait, from left: George, Ida Banon Relles, David, Rabbi Mayer Relles, Nathan.
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Group Portrait of Children and Adults

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Description: A large group consisting of five males and four females pose for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop around a studio prop of a stone wall. The...
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The Russell Block

Date: 1900
Description: The Russell Block, 1606-1608 Tower Avenue. The 1899 City Directory makes the first mention of New York Furriers, Simmons and Malik, proprietors. New York F...
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Superior Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Superior Public Library. One doorway frames a woman (librarian?) working at an eight-sided librarian's desk. A picture of Andrew Carne...
Postcard

Summer White House on the Brule

Date: 1926
Description: Black and white postcard view of Cedar Island Lodge, located on the Brule River, owned by Henry Clay Pierce, businessman and financier. It was dubbed the S...
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Medicare Forum

Date: 06 1992
Description: During the 1990s Congressman David R. Obey, a leading proponent of health care reform, held numerous forums on the subject in his northern Wisconsin distri...
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Two Girls in a Boat

Date: 1895
Description: Two girls in a boat at the shoreline of the Black River.
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Women Riding Sidesaddle

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Description: Two women posing sidesaddle on two horses on a dirt path with a wooden board fence behind them. In the foreground is a colt. In the background are a field ...
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Lottie Porter, Wife of Frank Long

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Description: Waist-up studio portrait of Lottie Porter, wife of Frank Long, sitting in a chair. Her head is turned to the right in profile. She wears a high-collared wh...
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Will Catchpole and Florence Wickland

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a young European American man and woman posed standing. The woman, wearing a ...
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Studio Portrait of European American Woman

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Description: Vignetted head and shoulders studio portrait of an unidentified European American woman posed sitting. She is wearing a dark-colored dress with a button-do...
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Studio Portrait of Young European American Woman

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified young European American woman posed standing next to a chair covered with an ...
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Studio Portrait of European American Woman

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Description: Waist-up studio portrait of an unidentified European American woman posed sitting in a chair with a tasseled back. She is wearing a light-colored dress wit...
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Outdoor Portrait of European American Couple

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Description: Outdoor portrait of an unidentified woman and man posing sitting in a chair or sled in a grassy yard in front of trees and bushes. The woman is wearing a l...
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Home in Winter

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Description: Outdoor view across snow-covered yard towards a woman and child posing while sitting on the porch of a two-story house surrounded by snow-covered trees and...

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