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Winnebago Men Playing Cards

Date: 1885
Description: Five Winnebago men are sitting on the ground around a blanket playing cards. Two young boys are standing behind them watching.
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Group of Native Americans

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Description: Group of Native Americans-Potowatomi standing in front of rock formation.
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Women's Basketball Team

Date: 1899
Description: Women's basketball team poses for a group portrait.
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John Nuwi

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Description: Three-quarter length formal portrait in front of a painted backdrop of John Nuwi, a Mascouten (or Prairie) Potawatomi, who lived at Skunk Hill in Wood Coun...
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Logging Crew and Railroad

Date: 1888
Description: A logging crew of the Upham Lumber Company, together with the company's locomotive, "Old Vanderbilt," formerly the Wisconsin Central Railroad's Engine No #...
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Wisconsin Central Railroad Depot

Date: 1891
Description: Elevated view across railroad tracks of the Wisconsin Central Railroad depot. Virtually the entire population of Sherry is thought to be standing on the pl...
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Rablin House

Date: 1875
Description: The Rablin House built by John Rablin.
Postcard

Old Mission

Date: 1910
Description: View from pier towards the Old Mission in La Pointe on Madeline Island. Men are sitting at the shoreline. Caption reads: "Apostle Islands, Wis. Madeline Is...
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Vesper, Wisconsin

Date: 1895
Description: View of several buildings and horse-drawn stagecoaches in Vesper.
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Main Street

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Description: Men and a child are posing on Main Street. One man is on horseback, and other men are standing with a child. Tree stumps are in the foreground on the left.
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State Tree Nursery

Date: 1943
Description: Elevated view of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture Tree Nursery. A man is standing on the left side.
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Consoweld Employees

Date: 1953
Description: Group picture of some employees of the Consoweld Company (formerly the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper): Front row, left to right: John O'Leary, To...
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Consolidated Paper War Work

Date: 03 03 1944
Description: Consolidated Paper executive Jim Plzak (in the suit), watches as workers pull laminate from the Number #1 press at the Consolidated Paper Company. The lam...
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Gliders for the War

Date: 02 03 1944
Description: Employees of the Consolidated Paper Company Plastics Division constructing the floors of lightweight gliders to be used by the military.
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Gliders for the War

Date: 01 25 1943
Description: An employee of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company holds up a structure for it to be photographed. The object is thought to be a prototype...
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Consolidated War Work

Date: 1943
Description: Carl Husome, an employee of the Consolidated Paper Company in a photograph probably taken to demonstrate progress on the development of a prototype for a m...
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Consolidated War Work

Date: 1943
Description: An unidentified employee of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company prepares for a strength test of a product being developed by the compan...
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Consolidated Paper Company

Date: 02 04 1944
Description: Interior view of the factory of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company during World War II.
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Consolidated War Work

Date: 06 24 1944
Description: Strength test being performed by an employee of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company. The company developed a number of laminated plast...
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World War II Worker

Date: 04 26 1944
Description: An unidentified employee of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company during World War II.

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