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| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Six men of the fishing colony on the shorelines of the Mississippi River. Numerous boats, logs, and fishing nets are scattered across the beach. Caption on... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Fishing implements on the shoreline of the Mississippi River, and a bluff in the background. Caption reads: "Fish Industry, Mississippi River, La Crosse, W... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | In 1933, Lester Proksch constructed this striking filling station in the small river town, at 201 North Main Street. Less's Service was opened in July of 1... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Close-up of Coca-Cola sign, hanging above the front door of the now Tully Realty Office. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Built in the early 1920s, the station, with its tower, low rooflines, and decorative half-timbering, complemented the designs of the other resort buildings... |
| Date: | 04 1957 |
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| Description: | LuRay Arms and Otis Arms tending a fire while making maple syrup outdoors. |
| Date: | 04 1957 |
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| Description: | Three men from the Arms family making maple syrup outdoors. From left to right are: Lewis, Bernard, and Otis Arms. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a two-story public school. The basement windows are broken. A tree and a house are on the left in the background. Stacks of fuelwood are o... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of foundation and elaborate frame of a Gothic roofed barn, partially built. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Group of men and boys threshing. They are using a tractor for a belt-driven threshing machine, and on the left two horses pull a wagon with large barrels. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Construction workers pose at the entrance of the public school during construction. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Chaseburg Cooperative Creamery. Smoke comes from the back of the building. There is an advertisement for C.R. Watterson, "the painless dent... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Chaseburg Cooperative Creamery and an attached secondary building. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View across road of a Norwegian Church, and a Public School next door. The church building features a tall steeple, lancet arched windows, gable roof, and ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Exterior view across road of a creamery. The front of the creamery has a roof supported with columns over the elevated driveway and loading dock for delive... |
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| Description: | M.H. Bekkedale and E. Rosenwald and Brothers Leaf Tobacco warehouse. There is a boxcar on tracks near the warehouse, and a bluff in the far background. |
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| Description: | View looking down hill towards the buildings that make up the brickyard. Along the road between the brickyard and the brewery are a few men sitting in wago... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Valecia Condensery Milk Company factory. The company's sign is painted on the crow-stepped gable wall of the factory. The sign reads, "Vale... |
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| Description: | View down dirt road of horses and delivery wagons parked near wooden buildings on the left. A group of people are assembled, some on the porch of a large b... |
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| Description: | View down tracks towards a locomotive pulling a passenger train into the depot. A conductor stands in an open door. Another conductor and passengers stand ... |
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