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Hotel Maple

Date: 08 13 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Hotel Maple, Weyerhauser [sic], Wis." A three story, clapboard building containing a hotel, restaurant and Post Office. Two girls are...
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Greetings from Ladysmith, Wis.

Date: 1965
Description: Outdoor portrait of a Native American man wearing a headdress, and bead work. Caption on back reads: "A Colorful American Indian."
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Lake Shore

Date: 1909
Description: View of a lake shore with a rowboat pulled up to a stone beach. There are trees on the right, and the far shoreline is in the distance.
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Julius Balko

Date: 07 19 1961
Description: A man is sitting at a machine. He is identified as Julius Balko, 74, of Ladysmith. The Balko family had a company which manufactured boat trailers in Ladys...
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Indian Log Drivers

Date: 1899
Description: View along shoreline towards Indian log drivers, two in a bateau, and one man standing on the bank of the Chippewa River.
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Camping

Date: 1935
Description: View from among trees towards three men working to pull up and secure three rowboats at a rustic log landing site on the Flambeau River. One man is still s...
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Muskie

Date: 1920
Description: An unidentified man wearing waders and a cap is posing on a rocky shore holding up a large muskie. There is a wooden canoe in the shallow water behind him.
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Clearing Brush

Date: 06 09 1936
Description: Smoke is rising from piles of burning brush and stumps along a country road. Two men are walking near another pile of brush in the foreground on the right....
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Log Sauna, Matt Johnson Farm

Date: 1930
Description: View up hill towards two adults and two children outside of a log building, surrounded by trees. Caption reads: "Sheldon, Wis. 1930s. Log sauna on Matt Joh...
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Beaver Dam Rapids

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Description: View of the Beaver Dam Rapids on the Flambeau River.
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Canoeing Down the Beaver Dam Rapids

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Description: Elevated view of the Beaver Dam Rapids on Flambeau River. Two people are canoeing down the rapids.
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Mataczneski Farm

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Description: View across field of the Mataczneski family farm.
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Officers of the Rusk County Beekeepers Association

Date: 1931
Description: Group of men at the Rusk County Beekeepers Association, standing near table of honey display. Center - R. Knudtson, Glen Flora, President. Right - A. D. Ca...
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Cloverland School

Date: 1933
Description: Students at the Cloverland School, District No.2, stand hand in hand, with arms outstretched, in front of the brick school building. The front porch extend...
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Tall Corn

Date: 07 04 1933
Description: An unidentified man wearing a shirt and necktie poses with corn "shoulder high July 4, 1933."
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Model Airplane Motor

Date: 1933
Description: Harry Pederson poses while holding a model airplane motor which he built. He is standing outdoors in front of the rear of a car parked near a building.
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Kittenball Team

Date: 1932
Description: The kittenball team of Cloverland school, including three girls and seven boys, pose in front of the school. A boy in knickers holds a bat; another boy at ...
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Working in the Garden

Date: 1933
Description: Earl Woodbury, 14, and his sister Helen, 12, work barefoot in the garden of their home farm. Both are students at the Cloverland School, District No. 2. Th...
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Earl Woodbury

Date: 1933
Description: Earl Woodbury, age 14, a student at Cloverland School, poses with a sheep on his home farm. The sheep has been recently shorn. There is another sheep and a...
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Hogs

Date: 1933
Description: Three hogs feed on the Larson farm. There are farm wagons in the background and snow on the ground.

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