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Governor Julius P. Heil Campaigning to Teenagers

Date: 10 1942
Description: Governor Julius P. Heil (1876-1949) speaks to Shawano High School students and others during his gubernatorial re-election campaign. He arrived during the ...
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Shawano Airport

Date: 1951
Description: Shawano Municipal Airport and airport managers Jack and Dorothy Wussow. In 1954 the Wussows gave up cold weather flying to become managers of an airport i...
Photograph

Wolf River Paper Company

Date: 10 1939
Description: Elevated view of the Wolf River Paper Company factory, including smokestacks and a water tower.
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Wolf River Paper

Date: 10 1939
Description: View from shoreline towards the opposite shoreline of the Wolf River Paper Company factory complex on the Wolf River.
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Highway Department Garage

Date: 1930
Description: Shawano County Highway Department garage.
Postcard

Reservation School

Date: 1935
Description: Menominee Indian Reservation Government School near Shawano. Caption reads: "Government School, Menominee Indian Reservation, Near Shawano, Wis."
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1910
Description: View down center of unpaved street. A sign on the building on the left corner reads: "The Upham & Russell Co. Hardware and Metals". A barber's pole is on t...
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1912
Description: View down street, with a trolley coming up the left side. Pedestrians are on the sidewalks. Caption reads: "Main Street, Shawano, Wis."
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1910
Description: View down center of unpaved street. Caption reads: "Main St., Looking South, Shawano, Wis."
Postcard

Shawano High School

Date: 1910
Description: View towards front of the school. Caption reads: "Shawano High School."
Photograph

Herman Rafoth

Date: 1925
Description: Herman Rafoth, smoking a pipe, stands behind a two-story wooden house. Rafoth was the driver of a stage held up by Raymond Holzse on May 8, 1880. A woman...
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Raymond Holzse

Date: 1925
Description: A copy of a waist-up portrait of Raymond Holzse. Holzse was described as a "bandit of northern Wisconsin, who planned several stage holdups."
Photograph

National Guardsmen During Milk Strike

Date: 05 18 1933
Description: National Guardsmen, who were sworn in as deputies, approach milk strikers through what appears to be a cloud of smoke.
Photograph

Shalagoco Country Club

Date: 1939
Description: A group of women golfers at the No. 1 tee of the Shalagoco Country Club.
Photograph

State High School Basketball Tournament Teams

Date: 02 13 1956
Description: Group portrait of the Shawano High School basketball team, the Indians.
Map or Atlas

City of Shawano

Date: 1975
Description: This map shows streets, railroads, and Wolf Lake. An index of streets is also included.
Map or Atlas

Map of the City of Shawano, Wisconsin

Date: 1948
Description: This blue line print map shows lot and block numbers and dimensions, buildings, streets, railroads, and the Wolf River.
Photograph

Gratitude Train Display

Date: 06 1949
Description: Elevated view of people examining display cases in a gymnasium containing objects from the French Gratitude Train. Two U.S. flags are hanging at the far en...
Photograph

Chief Ernest Oshkosh

Date: 1915
Description: Waist-up seated studio portrait of Ernest Oshkosh (?1875-1929), grandson of Chief Oshkosh, son of Neopit. He is wearing a cap, bib overalls, and a striped ...
Photograph

Medicine Man

Date: 1935
Description: A waist-up informal portrait of Match-o-ka-mah, described on the reverse of the photograph as "Medicine Man and Keeper of the Sacred Drum of the Wisconsin ...

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