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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...
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Out for a Spin

Date: 1910
Description: Photographic postcard showing a man driving an early open automobile with a railroad overpass behind him. Caption reads: "Out for a Spin, Bonduel, Wis."
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Selective Logging

Date: 03 1938
Description: A large white pine being felled on the Menominee Indian Reservation. This photograph was taken to illustrate the tribe's selective logging practices.
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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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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.
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The Dells

Date: 1924
Description: Elevated view of The Dells. A group of people are standing on a rock formation on the right overlooking the river. On the left is a rocky shoreline, and in...
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Arrest at Gresham

Date: 01 27 1975
Description: Members of the Wisconsin National Guard arrest a group of Native Americans during the takeover of the Alexian Brother Novitiate near Gresham. The arrest wa...
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Alexian Takeover

Date: 1975
Description: Wisconsin National Guard and an armored personnel carrier at the Alexian Brothers Novitiate at Greshman during the Menominee seizure of the building.
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Brando & Groppi

Date: 1975
Description: Actor Marlon Brando (center) and Father James Groppi of Milwaukee arrive at the Alexian Novitiate in Gresham. The building had been seized by members of th...
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Standoff at Gresham

Date: 1975
Description: An unidentified member of the Wisconsin State Patrol points his revolver at several Native Americans at a vehicle checkpoint near Gresham. The State Patrol...
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Round House

Date: 1924
Description: View down side of railroad tracks of two trains entering a Chicago and North Western Railway roundhouse. A man in overalls stands near the tracks.
Postcard

H. Smith Sample Room

Date: 1907
Description: Photographic postcard view across street towards the Herman Smith Saloon storefront, with a man and two dogs on the sidewalk in front. A horse and buggy ar...
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Exterior of the Buettner Hotel

Date: 1961
Description: Exterior of a hotel, with bright metal siding in full sunlight. An elderly man is seated in a chair outside. Behind the hotel on the left is what appears t...
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White Pine Tree

Date: 07 1936
Description: Ray Weber standing next to a large white pine on a Menominee Indian reservation.
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Felling the White Pine

Date: 07 1936
Description: Two men are working together to cut down a large white pine tree on a Menominee Indian reservation.
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Oshkosh Trading Post

Date: 1935
Description: Two men and a woman are walking from a parked automobile toward the covered porch of the Oshkosh Trading Post, a low, log building on the Menominee Indian ...
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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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Jerome Francis Franklin, Sr. and Perry Small Franklin

Date: 1900
Description: Informal outdoor portrait of Jerome Francis Franklin, Sr. and his son Perry Small Franklin. They are seated on a box in front of a wall with a window.
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Jerome Francis Franklin, Sr. and Family

Date: 1916
Description: The extended Franklin family posing in front of a store (possibly the family owned Drug Store or Hardware Store) with messages wishing Perry Small Franklin...
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Jerome Francis Franklin Sr.

Date: 1918
Description: Jerome Francis Franklin Sr. poses in front of the family Drug Store and Eland Post Office. He was postmaster in Eland for many years on and off, also Justi...

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