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Threshing Steam Tractor

Date: 1900
Description: Men and boys posing around a threshing steam tractor. Oliver Johnson is in the foreground. John Bergeson and Art(?) are on top of the stack. Henning Berges...
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Residential Street

Date: 1910
Description: View across road towards a neighborhood along another road. Houses are on the right, and two children in the center are standing on the sidewalk in the cen...
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Park Hotel

Date: 1900
Description: View across road towards the Park Hotel, with children playing on the sidewalk in front of the hotel. Caption reads: "Park Falls, Wis."
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Park Hotel

Date: 1910
Description: Park Hotel from a clipping taken from the Park Falls Herald of April 5, 1962. The caption reads: "Park Hotel was a landmark in the early days of Park Falls...
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Park Hotel

Date: 1900
Description: A view of the Park Hotel in winter. A man on the left is pulling a sled piled with firewood.
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Meili-Blumberg Model 10 Power Grader

Date: 1948
Description: Man grading a dirt road with a Meili-Blumberg Model 10 power grader attached to an International M tractor. Original caption states: "To maintain its 67 m...
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Cranberry Harvest

Date: 09 1934
Description: Cranberry harvesters using cranberry rakes make their way across a flooded cranberry bog. In the background crates of harvested cranberries are stacked wai...
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Flooded Cranberry Marsh Harvest

Date: 09 1934
Description: A large group of men working in a line with cranberry rakes to harvest cranberries in a flooded marsh. The men at work are all wearing waders. In the backg...
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Depot

Date: 1926
Description: View down center of railroad tracks towards the Prentice Depot and railroad crossing. A man is walking on the platform of the depot. On the left in the bac...
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Fourth of July at Park Falls

Date: 07 05 1994
Description: As a boy scout raises the flag, the people in attendance at the Park Falls Fourth of July celebration recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Congressman David R....
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Fourth of July at Park Falls

Date: 07 04 1994
Description: The flag raising during the Fourth of July ceremony, with a group of the local Knights of Columbus on the left. In the foreground on the right is a photogr...
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Park Falls VFW

Date: 07 04 1994
Description: Members of the Park Falls chapter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at the community Fourth of July ceremony.
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The First House in Kennedy

Date: 1908
Description: Group posed in front of the first house built in Kennedy.
Photograph

Cranberry Marsh

Date: 1938
Description: Dusting a cranberry marsh to combat blunt-nosed leaf-hoppers, Cranberry Lake Development Co.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Phillips Fire Historic Marker

Date: 12 09 1964
Description: Mrs. James Sima, a child when the Phillips Fire of 1894 raged, standing next to the historical marker documenting the horrific fire.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Phillips Fire Historic Marker

Date: 09 15 1957
Description: Mary Lynn Norton and Cathy Mess unveiling the Phillips Fire historical marker, while Avrid Bostrom and Alderman Victor Cress (seated) look on. Bostrom, a l...
Postcard

Feely's Pike Lake Resort

Date: 1906
Description: Postcard with the title: "Feely's Pike Lake Resort is the greatest place on earth for rest and relaxation." There is a photographic view of a man and woman...
Photograph

Storm Damage Cleanup

Date: 03 1978
Description: View across snow-covered ground towards a man standing on a log. The trees around him are either broken or bent over towards the right, the result of a sto...
Photograph

On the Flambeau River

Date: 07 1937
Description: View across water towards a shoreline where men and boys are gathered on the bank of the Flambeau River, with several canoes and rowboats pulled up to the ...
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Running Little Falls

Date: 1935
Description: View from rocky shoreline towards three young men in a canoe running the Little Falls rapids on the South Fork of the Flambeau River.

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