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| Description: | Fisherman cooking on campfire at the edge of a river. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a railroad station and yards. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Shell Lake before a fire on December 3, 1889 which swept Main Street and destroyed more than twenty business places. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Shell Lake looking northwest. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Shell Lake looking towards the sawmills. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Exterior view across railroad tracks towards the Shell Lake Roller Milling Company. There is a man sitting on a horse-drawn wagon outside the entrance. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | The Trolley Inn, diner, overnight cabins, and gas pumps, located on state highways 53 & 63, one mile south of Spooner. The juxtaposition of the former tro... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Indian Head Sandwich Shop, filling station, and rest rooms. |
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| Description: | Community Fair of the Bashaw Valley Farmers Club. E.L. Lutcher, head of the farmers institutes program of the agricultural extension, described the area a... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Two workmen stack crates of cranberries in an open air drying shed. The original caption which was supplied by the Agriculture Department noted that Wiscon... |
| Date: | 07 1938 |
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| Description: | At a small sawmill near Shell Lake, farmers shovel sawdust which will be mixed with a whey product and applied to fields for grasshopper eradication during... |
| Date: | 09 1934 |
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| Description: | View of a cranberry marsh and warehouse. In the foreground is a warehouse for the storage of harvested cranberries. |
| Date: | 09 1934 |
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| Description: | Two men are loading cranberries into a washing machine. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | As part of a Wisconsin unemployment project, workmen dig a sewer trench by hand for the city of Spooner. |
| Date: | 12 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of seven members of Shriners youth groups in formal dress; the boys were in the De Molay club and the girls were in the Rainbow Girls club. Some ... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored image of two men loading cranberries in crates into an open air drying shed shortly after harvest. |
| Date: | 09 1934 |
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| Description: | Man working at cranberry cleaning machine. On both sides of the machine are stacks of crates used for storing cranberries. Under the machine is the plant d... |
| Date: | 09 1934 |
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| Description: | Three men, in waders, harvesting cranberries by hand with cranberry rakes. In the background other harvesting teams are visible, as well as crates of harve... |
| Date: | 09 1934 |
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| Description: | Newly cleared cranberry marshes. In the center a man stands near a man-made irrigation ditch. To the left and right of the ditch are large piles of roots a... |
| Date: | 09 1934 |
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| Description: | Construction of a new drainage and water supply line for a cranberry marsh. Two men are standing on the right near the water. |
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