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Two Women Outside a Log Cabin

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Description: Two women stand outside the doorway of a log house in winter. They are posed with a washtub, broom and dust pan.
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Road Grader Plowing Snow

Date: 1900
Description: Winter scene looking toward Main Street from South First Street, with an arch over the intersection. A man is operating a road grader pulled by four horses...
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Pedestrians on Main Street

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Description: Man wearing a fur coat, a woman wrapped in a blanket, and other individuals bundled for warmth on a winter day. In front of the millenary shop of Miss Finc...
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Native American Women on Water Street

Date: 1911
Description: A boy is standing on a snow-covered wooden sidewalk on the left, and Native American women wrapped in blankets are walking on the sidewalk on the right. Vi...
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Group of People on Board Sidewalk

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Description: Group of four women and man posing on a board sidewalk between snow drifts in front of the high school.
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Man and Woman Posed on Horseback

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Description: A man and woman pose on separate horses in a snow-covered farmyard.
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Men, Woman and Dog Posing with a Sled

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Description: A woman and dog sit in an egg-shell cutter that is hitched to a horse while two men stand to the side.
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Couple in Cutter Sleigh

Date: 1900
Description: Winter scene with a man and woman sitting in a cutter sleigh pulled by a two-horse team, possibly driven by Harvey Risliands.
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Winter Chores

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Description: A man chops wood in the background as a woman walks towards the house with buckets in hand.
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Group Posing in front of House

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Description: A large group of men, women, and children of varying ages standing around the porch of a frame house in winter.
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Ho-Chunk Family During Winter

Date: 1915
Description: Using a portable, 4 x 5 glass plate negative camera, Van Schaick photographed Ho-Chunk on the streets of Black River Falls. These occasional pictures offer...
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Ho-Chunk Girls and Boy on Water Street

Date: 1915
Description: Two Ho-Chunk girls wrapped in Racine Woolen Mills shawls walking with a young boy down Water Street downtown. The Journal sign is visible behind them, and ...
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Ho-Chunk Couple with Dog

Date: 1890
Description: A Ho-Chunk couple and their dog outside of their winter home (ciiporoke). A Hudson Bay blanket is hanging over the door opening. The long tree branches lea...
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Ho-Chunk Person Walking Across Snow

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Description: Winter scene with an unidentified person, probably Native American, wrapped in a blanket walking across the snow. In the background the wigwam poles (ciisu...
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Ho-Chunk Man and Woman near Winter Lodge

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Description: A Ho-Chunk man and woman posing standing in front of a Ho-Chunk winter lodge. The man is reportedly blind. In the background there is a horse and snow on t...
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A.F. Werner Store Advertisement

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Description: Woman posing outdoors standing next to an advertisement for the A.F. Werner Store, which is attached to a sleigh on a snow-covered street. The large poster...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Logging camp with numerous bobsleds loaded with logs. Two men and two women are posed sitting in a sleigh pulled by a team of two horses in front of a wood...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group portrait of men, women. children and dogs posed standing, sitting and holding logging tools in a snow-covered logging camp in front of log buildings.
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Men and Women Posing Outdoors

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Description: Group of men, a dog and one woman posed standing and sitting in the snow-covered yard near a wooden building,. Three men hold rifles, two men display horse...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men, women, children and a dog posed sitting and standing in front of a log building in the snow. Two men are holding two teams of two horses.

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