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Photograph

Men Clearing Stumps

Date: 09 03 1895
Description: Clearing stumps with a stump machine on the farm of Christopher Paustenbach, three miles east of Medford, Taylor County.
Photograph

Harvesting Red Clover

Date: 09 03 1895
Description: The Fred Judas family poses with their second crop of red clover, three miles south of Medford. With their rakes and mower, they are converting the red clo...
Photograph

Hemlock Bark

Date: 1895
Description: The front (top) and back (bottom) of a promotional card advertising the large amounts of hemlock bark in Northern Wisconsin. The image shows three men sitt...
Photograph

New Settlers in Taylor County

Date: 1895
Description: A promotional card displaying a group of thirteen people outside their new home in Northern Wisconsin.

The caption bellow the photograph reads, "These pe...

Photograph

Rib Lake, Taylor County, Wis.

Date: 1895
Description: A promotional card displaying a populated village street near a lake in Northern Wisconsin.

The caption bellow the photography reads: "RIB LAKE, TAYLOR C...

Photograph

Corn Crops in Taylor County

Date: 1895
Description: The front (top) and back (bottom) of a promotional cards showing the plentiful corn crops of John Carstens, created to attract farmers to the agricultural ...
Print

A Second Crop of Clover

Date: 1895
Description: The front (top) and back (bottom) of an advertisement for farm land in northern Wisconsin. This card advertises the abundance of clover crop with an image ...
Print

School House

Date: 1895
Description: Promotional card advertising the school house in Rib Lake. The caption reads, "SCHOOL HOUSE, RIB LAKE, TAYLOR COUNTY, WIS. -In all the towns of Price and T...
Photograph

Frozen Spring Farm Land

Date: 05 10 1960
Description: Farmland covered in a spring frost.
Photograph

Abandoned Barn

Date: 05 10 1960
Description: View of an abandoned farm and bare trees. Another small outbuilding is further down the hill on the left.
Photograph

Tree-Veiled Farm

Date: 05 10 1960
Description: View through the trees of an abandoned farm.
Map or Atlas

Zoning Map - City of Medford, Wisconsin : District Map

Date: 06 02 1952
Description: This map shows five types of districts, as well as streets, railroads, water works buildings, and parks. The bottom left of the map has a key of district t...
Map or Atlas

Lands Tax Deeded to Taylor County, Wisconsin

Date: 1930
Description: This map shows communities, state roads, county roads, railroads, lakes and rivers in the county. Areas marked in red are lands tax deeded to the county.
Postcard

Warehouses and Depot

Date: 09 10 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "Ware-houses and Depot, Stetsonville, Wis." View across railroad tracks towards a train station with a depot, warehouses, cattle loadi...
Postcard

Scene near Stetsonville

Date: 12 23 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "Scene near Stetsonville, Wis." A man follows a herd of sheep through a pasture bounded by a split rail fence with supports. In the di...
Postcard

Catholic Church and Parsonage

Date: 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Catholic Church and Parsonage, Stetsonville, Wis." Both buildings are built of brick with arched windows, and a log cabin is behind t...
Postcard

Scene Near Westboro

Date: 10 01 1913
Description: Text on front reads: "Scene Near Westboro, Wis." Water scene with a boat at the shore on the left. Trees, shrubs and foliage fill the landscape along the s...

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