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| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Main Street, with two competing curb-side gas stations across the street from each other. Cars are parked along both sides of the muddy street. Such curb-... |
| Date: | 05 1926 |
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| Description: | Section 1 of a Sanborn map of Osceola. |
| Date: | 05 1926 |
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| Description: | Section 2 of a Sanborn map of Osceola. |
| Date: | 05 1926 |
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| Description: | Section 3 of a Sanborn map of Osceola. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View of the rock formation known as the "Old Man of the Dalles" in the Interstate State Park near Saint Croix Falls, Wisconsin. The St. Croix River is in t... |
| Date: | 09 1925 |
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| Description: | The Clear Lake election board inside the town hall. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Students sitting in a classroom in the Clear Lake School. Gaylord Nelson, later governor of Wisconsin and a United States senator, is sitting at the front ... |
| 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: | Alvin Steinkopf (left), a Milwaukee journalist, dressed for work on the farm of his parents, Mathilda and Oscar Steinkopf. The Steinkopfs farmed 40 acres n... |
| 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: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A brochure with a map of Interstate Park on the Dalles of the Saint Croix River, showing locations of the north and south camp grounds, the fish hatcheries... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Entries in the Lewis Baking Contest. Seven tables full of plates of desserts are displayed in a large room. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View down center of Main Street. The State Bank is in the foreground on the right. A hardware store and hotel are on the left. There is a windmill in the d... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the public school, which is a two-story wooden building with a bell tower. Caption reads: "Public School, Centuria, Wis." |
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