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Sales Girls Distribute War Bonds at World War II Scrap Drive

Date: 04 1942
Description: Sales girls (L to R): Patsie Anderson, Margaret Hatche, and Leone Owens distribute war bonds and stamps to farmers and other townspeople during a W.W. II s...
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Fourth of July

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph of New Richmond(?) during a fourth of July celebration. Identification has not been fully verified, but there was a Coombs Hotel in this town a...
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Panoramic Bird's-Eye View of New Richmond

Date: 1912
Description: Panoramic bird's-eye view. Identifiable businesses include: T.J. McNally Clothing & Shoes, M.J. Casey, The Winter Drug Store, Bank of New Richmond.
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Extricating the Dead and Wounded

Date: 06 12 1899
Description: Stereograph of rescuers and onlookers standing among the wreckage in the wake of a cyclone. Bare trees, horses, houses, and a church steeple are in the bac...
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Bird's Eye View of Cyclone Wreckage

Date: 06 1899
Description: Elevated view of New Richmond after the tornado hit on June 12, 1899. Many people are gathered around the railroad tracks and a few others are seen among t...
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Woodville Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Men hauling wagon loads of scrap metal with a Farmall H tractor, horses, and an automobile. The men are participating in a scrap drive, possibly during Gov...
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Woodville HS Booster Club Promoting Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: A group of children, including members of the Woodville High School Booster Club, stand near a pile of scrap metal. Some of the children are holding musica...
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Woodville Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Men and boys use horses, a Farmall H tractor and wagons to haul scrap metal to a pile near railroad tracks. The men are participiting in a wartime scrap dr...
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Woodville Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Men with horses, wagons, cars and trucks are parked alongside railroad tracks near a large scrap metal pile. The men are participating in a wartime scrap d...
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High Angle View of Tornado Aftermath

Date: 06 12 1899
Description: Elevated view toward the horizon over a bridge on a river of the widespread destruction left in the wake of a tornado. Destroyed houses litter the scene an...
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Elevated View of Tornado Damage

Date: 06 12 1899
Description: Elevated view over water, perhaps Hatfield Lake, of damage to houses and property caused by a tornado. Groups of people are scattered throughout the town.
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Damaged Houses after Tornado

Date: 06 12 1899
Description: View over water, perhaps Hatfield Lake, of houses damaged and demolished in a tornado. Floating at the edge of the lake near an eroded bank are numerous pi...
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Horse-Drawn Carriage Amid Tornado Debris

Date: 06 12 1899
Description: Side view of a group of people looking at the debris left by a tornado from a covered horse-drawn carriage. In the foreground the roof of a houselies on th...
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Tornado Relief Effort Operations

Date: 06 12 1899
Description: Elevated view of people working with the relief effort in the aftermath of a tornado. Boxes of supplies are piled near a man in the foreground, and a man h...
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Men Working Among Tornado Debris

Date: 06 12 1899
Description: A group of men working in the debris left in the wake of a tornado. A large column is leaning against part of a wall or foundation.
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Men wIth Large Piece of Tornado Debris

Date: 06 12 1899
Description: Man standing around the remains of a house that has been demolished during a tornado. A man is standing near a horse on the right. In the background a smal...
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Fourth of July - Anaglyph

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph of New Richmond(?) during a fourth of July celebration. Identification has not been fully verified, but there was a Coombs Hotel in this town a...
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Grant Bros. Onion Field in Bloom

Date: 07 16 1895
Description: A man stands in ten acres of flowering onion plants, planted for seed, in the Grant Bros. gardens. A horse pulls a buggy in the field in the background. Wo...
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Main Street, Deer Park

Date: 1910
Description: Black and white photographic postcard looking down the center of unpaved Main Street. People are standing in front of commercial buildings on the right, ne...

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