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| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Rock near the principal village of the Chippewa Indian Reservation. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill towards the city of Laona on the far shoreline. A large smokestack is spewing smoke. Caption reads: "Laona, Wis." |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View from street towards the Grand Plank Hotel, with a man standing on its front porch. Caption reads: "Grand Plank Hotel, Wabeno, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of North Branch Street. Caption reads: "North Branch Street, Wabeno, Wis." |
| Date: | 09 17 1961 |
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| Description: | View down hill towards backwater area of the Wolf River, near it's source, surrounded by thick woods. Crop marks indicated by photographer. |
| Date: | 01 06 1918 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | A man and woman stand behind the service counter at a drugstore. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Running for re-election for the first time, Congressman David R. Obey greets voters at the fair. A merry-go-round is in the background. Although unidentifi... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Map shows swamps, windfalls, roads and railroads. Status of some land marked (O, S, X) but lacks explanation. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | This 1920 map of Forest County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, sections, cities and villages, lakes and streams, roads, "steam railroads," s... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | This tourist brochure for Forest County, Wisconsin, includes a 1967 road map of the county which identifies points of interest, a location map, descriptive... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | "Map no. 2, Keith and Hiles Lumber Co., Crandon, Wisconsin, Block Map, Block One... Made December 20, 1919. Maker of original map, B. McGinley. Maker of ta... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Woman and four children sing in front of a makeshift tent that is used as their home. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Woman and four children seated in front of a makeshift tent that serves as their home. There is a washtub and washboard in the foreground and laundry hangs... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Young man and a dog in the yard outside a dilapidated shack in the woods that serves as a dwelling. Laundry hangs from a line at left. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Five children seated in front of a dilapidated shack that serves as a dwelling. Three dogs roam in the front yard. |
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