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Business District of Laona

Date: 1941
Description: Leona street scene with parked cars in front of Connor's Big Department Store and the Hotel Gordon, photographed sometime during the summer of 1941. Soon...
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Armstrong Creek Railroad Tracks

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Description: A view of the Soo Line Depot and railroad tracks running through the town at Armstrong Creek. A man, child, and a dog are walking on the railroad tracks.
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Man Driving Automobile in Field

Date: 07 1941
Description: A man is driving an automobile in a field near two buildings, perhaps outhouses.
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Argonne

Date: 1915
Description: View down the unpaved main street of Argonne. The inn in the right foreground was the Commercial House. Across the street, the first building on the left...
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Presbyterian Church, Crandon, Wis.

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Description: Caption reads: "Presbyterian Church, Crandon, Wis."
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Downtown Crandon

Date: 1910
Description: Steet in downtown Crandon.
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Forest County

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Description: Panoramic view of Forest County.
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Main Street

Date: 1910
Description: View across Main Street in Laona. Three men are standing in front of the corner building, and another man is on horseback to the right. On the left in the ...
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Grand Plank Hotel

Date: 1911
Description: View from street towards the Grand Plank Hotel, with a man standing on its front porch. Caption reads: "Grand Plank Hotel, Wabeno, Wis."
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Steam Hauler with Log Sleighs

Date: 01 06 1918
Description: Lumber crew posed with a steam hauler and several sleds loaded with logs. The foreman's sleigh pulled by a horse is in the foreground. Possibly foreman, Mi...
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Street Scene

Date: 1924
Description: View down commercial street. The stores are (from left to right): First County State Bank, a variety store, a bakery, First National Bank, a drugstore, the...
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Street Scene

Date: 1924
Description: View down commercial street. The shops are: Crandon Baking Company, a drugstore, the Hotel Hellstrom and Livery, a restaurant, First National Bank, a baker...
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Street Scene

Date: 1924
Description: View across street of cars parked at the curb in front of stores and shops. The shops include: Citizens State Bank, Crandon post office, a grocery store, a...
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Stacking Timothy Hay

Date: 08 01 1895
Description: A group of farm workers, four men and four children, pose on the farm of H.D. Dutcher. The men are stacking a large pile of timothy hay, using a ladder to ...
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Hiles Lumber Company Locomotive

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Description: Slightly elevated three-quarter view from front left of a Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway locomotive at Hiles Lumber Company. One man is standing ...
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Sugar House

Date: 04 09 1971
Description: Two horses standing in the snow are hitched to a wagon holding a metal trough. Behind the horses smoke is rising up from the sugar house where maple sap is...
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Collecting Maple Sap

Date: 04 09 1971
Description: A youth, dressed in red hat and sweatshirt, plaid pants, and brown work boots, is pouring maple sap from a bag into a metal bucket. In the background a man...
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Maple Syrup Storage Tank

Date: 04 09 1971
Description: A man is sitting on a large metal cylinder storage tank while piping maple sap from a metal trough on a wagon into the tank. Sap bags are on trees in the b...
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Lumberjack Steam Train

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Description: View from side of railroad tracks towards a man posing at the front of a vintage steam locomotive. Flowers are in the foreground.
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Deer Crossing Road

Date: 1938
Description: A small herd of deer in a snowy landscape along a one lane road. The caption on the reverse reads: "While some of the herd bravely crosses the road the oth...

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