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Railroad Station and Yards

Date: 1888
Description: Elevated view of a railroad station and yards.
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View of Shell Lake

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view of Shell Lake before a fire on December 3, 1889 which swept Main Street and destroyed more than twenty business places.
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Elevated view of Shell Lake

Date: 1880
Description: Elevated view of Shell Lake looking northwest.
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Shell Lake

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view of Shell Lake looking towards the sawmills.
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Shell Lake Roller Milling Company

Date: 1905
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.
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Farmers Club Meeting

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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...
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Cranberry Drying and Storage

Date: 1934
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...
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Making Grasshopper Bait

Date: 07 1938
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...
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Cranberry Warehouse

Date: 09 1934
Description: View of a cranberry marsh and warehouse. In the foreground is a warehouse for the storage of harvested cranberries.
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Cranberry Cleaning Machine

Date: 09 1934
Description: Two men are loading cranberries into a washing machine.
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Cranberry Drying and Storage

Date: 1934
Description: Hand-colored image of two men loading cranberries in crates into an open air drying shed shortly after harvest.
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Cranberry Cleaning

Date: 09 1934
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...
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Badger Cranberry Company Harvest

Date: 09 1934
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...
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New Cranberry Bed

Date: 09 1934
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...
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Drainage and Water Supply

Date: 09 1934
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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Tractor with Trailer Loaded with Cranberries

Date: 09 1934
Description: A man driving a tractor is parked in front of a barn. The trailer on the back of the tractor is used for hauling crates of cranberries in from the fields d...
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Cleaning Cranberries

Date: 09 1934
Description: Men inside an open doorway of a farm building stand on a platform loading cranberries into a cleaning machine shortly after harvest.
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Crate of Cranberries

Date: 09 1934
Description: Full crate of Wisconsin cranberries.
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Frame Church

Date: 1920
Description: View of frame church in a pastoral landscape.
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Drying Cranberries

Date: 1934
Description: Box of harvested cranberries at a drying rack.

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