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Michael Baltus Family in Front of New Home

Date: 1895
Description: Michael Baltus family posing in front of their log cabin two miles east of Auburndale Station, Wood County, with a new frame house under construction nearb...
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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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Wisconsin Soldiers in the Spanish-American War

Date: 1898
Description: Men from Wisconsin Rapids who bore arms against Spain in the Spanish-American War. From left to right in front of a painted backdrop are Charles N. Laramie...
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Women's Basketball Team

Date: 1899
Description: Women's basketball team poses for a group portrait.
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General Store

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Description: Customers receive assistance from clerks inside a general store.
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Feeding Logs into the Mill

Date: 1930
Description: Workers push logs floating in the Wisconsin River into alignment to enter a building for processing.
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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.
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Chief Monegar

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Description: Chief George Monegar of the Winnebago holding an United States flag.
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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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Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 09 1934
Description: Harvesting cranberries at the Cranberry Lake Lake Development Company in Wood County.
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Cranberry Spraying

Date: 1940
Description: Boom spraying of cranberries, in the Wisconsin Rapids area and probably by members of the Asa Bennett family. This technique using a tractor was developed ...
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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 Glider Floor

Date: 03 03 1944
Description: CG-4A glider floor manufactured by Consolidated Water Power and Paper Company, as part of a World War II military contract. Executive Jim Plzak is examinin...
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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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