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| Date: | 11 12 1906 |
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| Description: | "An annual crop of rocks" at the George A. Nelson Farm. |
| 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: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a canoe on the St. Croix River with wooded areas on both sides within the Interstate State Park. Established in 1900, Interstate Park was... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Dalles on the Saint Croix River with boats docked and crossing. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Exterior stereograph of the Polk County Press Office. |
| 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: | The jaw bone of Bison Occidentalis in the peat pit at Interstate Park. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Hammered copper pike found with prehistoric bison bones. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | Tent covering the excavation site of the bones of extinct bison. Milo Mickelson and Lester Giesler are standing in the doorway of the tent. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | The manufacture of bricks was begun on this spot sometime in the latter 1860's by Henry Bretag, a German brickmaker, the father of Mrs. Englehardt. Brick ... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of Harriman Avenue in the residential district. A little girl is standing with her baby carriage on the sidewalk between a telep... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Oscar Steinkopf and his horse Jim. They are haying on Steinkopf's 40-acre farm. The photograph was taken by Alvin Steinkopf, Oscar's son, a Milwaukee journ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Oscar Steinkopf feeding the chickens on his 40-acre farm near Luck. Feeding the chickens was traditionally considered women's work and perhaps Steinkopf wa... |
| Date: | 09 09 1895 |
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| Description: | View across field of two men leaning against an enormous stack of grain on the farm of August Schmidt. There are many more stacks of grain leading into the... |
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