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Photograph

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...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Cranberry Cleaning Machine

Date: 09 1934
Description: Two men are loading cranberries into a washing machine.
Photograph

Sewer Shoveling

Date: 1935
Description: As part of a Wisconsin unemployment project, workmen dig a sewer trench by hand for the city of Spooner.
Postcard

Delivery of Auto Buggies

Date: 03 23 1909
Description: Five International Harvester Auto Buggies with men sitting inside are on a dirt road in front of the Spooner Lumber Company. Caption reads: "Delivery of I....
Photograph

Rai-Molay Holiday Dance Royalty

Date: 12 08 1953
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 ...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Crate of Cranberries

Date: 09 1934
Description: Full crate of Wisconsin cranberries.
Print

Washburn County Treasurer Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of the Washburn County Treasurer's office, with a three-quarter view of the county building and people walking on the grounds. Text is in decora...
Photograph

State High School Basketball Tournament Teams

Date: 02 14 1956
Description: Group portrait of the Spooner High School basketball team, the Railroaders.
Map or Atlas

Agricultural and Dairy Lands in Reliable Wisconsin

Date: 1914
Description: This early 20th century map shows the township and range system, sections, railroads, roads, lakes, wetlands, and streams in the western Sawyer County town...
Map or Atlas

Map of Washburn County, Wisconsin

Date: 1896
Description: This 1896 map of Washburn County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, sections, schools, wagon roads, cities and villages, settlers, railroads, a...
Map or Atlas

Map of Washburn County, Wisconsin

Date: 1909
Description: This 1909 revision of Harmon's 1896 map of Washburn County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, schools, wagon roads, cities and...
Map or Atlas

Map of Washburn County, Wisconsin

Date: 1916
Description: This 1916 map of Washburn County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, sections, towns, schools, wagon roads, cities and villages, post offices, s...

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