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| Date: | 12 10 1965 |
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| Description: | Dennis Dokken examines a one microsecond memory system that enabled computers to read a million bits of information per second. |
| Date: | 09 09 1895 |
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| Description: | Two men with scythes stand in front of a sorghum patch planted on May 20th, 1895. The view was taken near Osceola. |
| Date: | 08 10 1946 |
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| Description: | A group portrait of three women. (l to r) Song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas, Mrs. Kamma Grumstrup, a singer of old ballads in Danish, and possibly Beri... |
| Date: | 08 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Brithe Lothe, age 75, and Mrs. Hannah Haug, singers of Norwegian folk songs. Behind them are two quilts or rugs hanging over what may be porch railing... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Business section of downtown. View across unpaved road towards business along the left. A group of children and adults are posing standing in the road nea... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Balsam Lake Hotel. A person is standing just outside of the hotel. A fence and tree are on the right. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Balsam Lake school house. A woman is standing on the right near the building. Caption reads: "School House Balsam Lake WIS". |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the side of the creamery, with two men standing at an open door at the end of the building on the left. Caption reads: "Creamery Clear Lake Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View down a dirt road with a general store on the left, with a sign that reads: "Merchandise". Men and a child are standing on the porch. On the right side... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the Dalles and the Saint Croix River, with one man in the center foreground sitting posing on a rock and looking to the left. On the far lef... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the Dalles rock formation with a two men in the foreground looking down at the Saint Croix River. On the left, one man stands leaning agains... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the St. Croix House with a large group of people lined up outside. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Exterior stereograph of the Polk County Press Office, with three men standing near the entrance, and three children sitting on the left on the board sidewa... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Three men looking over the process of uncovering bones of a bison in Interstate Park. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | An outdoor portrait of the Technical Service Team at Camp Interstate. From left to right are Kunsman, Hollister, Podolske, Preston, Greaves, Hurd, Solberg,... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A group of well-dressed men gather at the digging site at Interstate Park. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Two men seated inside a tent at the digging site at Interstate Park. |
| Date: | 07 1938 |
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| Description: | Loading a truck with bait at the county mixing station at Balsam Lake during the grasshopper outbreak in northwestern Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | The football team of clear Lake High School. Gaylord Nelson, later governor of Wisconsin and U.S. Senator, is second from the left in the front row. |
| Date: | 09 1925 |
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| Description: | The Clear Lake election board inside the town hall. |
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