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Marshfield Central Wisconsin State Fair Tickets

Date: 1982
Description: Unused ticket packet for the Central Wisconsin State Fair in Marshfield. There is one ticket for each day from Wednesday, September 1 through Monday, (Labo...
Postcard

Small Church

Date: 1946
Description: Text on front reads: "Small Church, 'Wisconsin in Miniature,' Souvenir and Refreshment Stand, Rudolph, Wisconsin." A garden with flowers, rocks, shrubs, pa...
Postcard

Grotto Shrine and Builder

Date: 1946
Description: Text on front reads: "Main View and Builder, Rev. P.J. Wagner, Grotto Shrine, Rudolph, Wisconsin." A rock and flower shrine with a statue of Jesus in a nic...
Postcard

St. Jude's Chapel

Date: 1963
Description: Text on back reads: "Log Chapel dedicated to St. Jude, Apostle, at the terminus of a bridge from which a wayside shrine and World War-I Memorial is viewed....
Postcard

World's Largest Round Barn

Date: 1917
Description: Color postcard of a round barn, 150 ft. in diameter, 50 feet high, built in 1917.
Photograph

Cemetery at Skunk Hill

Date: 1920
Description: View of the cemetery at Skunk Hill (Tah-qua-kik).
Photograph

Lewinski Family

Date: 11 13 1965
Description: A family with a man, a woman, and three children, are posing in front of a house. Caption reads: "Born on Friday the 13th 30 years ago, Mrs. James [Delores...
Book or Pamphlet

Bus in Front of Wegner-Pirwitz Auto Dealership

Date: 1921
Description: View across unpaved street towards a bus parked in front of the Wegner-Pirwitz Auto Dealership. Snow is on the ground.
Photograph

Seeding Trees

Date: 04 1938
Description: Two men are pushing an implement between guide ropes at the Central (now Griffith) State Nursery. The description on the reverse of the photograph explains...
Photograph

Wood County Dam

Date: 04 28 1936
Description: A view looking downstream at a recently built concrete dam with four gates. A note on the reverse of the photograph reads: "Dam built by WPA in drainage di...
Photograph

Griffith State Nursery

Date: 04 1938
Description: Elevated view of the state nursery showing fields, an above ground irrigation system, and blocks of plantings. There are men working in a field on the righ...
Photograph

Round Barn

Date: 1936
Description: A large round barn, built as a show barn and arena, standing on the grounds of the Central Wisconsin State Fair. The barn has a band of clerestory windows ...
Photograph

Pulp Mill

Date: 03 1978
Description: Elevated view across the frozen and snow-covered Wisconsin River towards the Domtar paper and pulp mill.
Photograph

Tenmile Creek

Date: 03 1978
Description: Elevated view of Tenmile Creek in the winter. There is ice and snow along the side of the creek.
Photograph

Tenmile Creek

Date: 03 1978
Description: Elevated view of Tenmile Creek as it runs parallel to a road.
Document

Nekoosa Lumbering Company Stock Certificate

Date: 09 09 1861
Description: Nekoosa Lumbering Company stock certificate for eighty shares made out to Moses M. Strong. Each share costs $50.00.
Photograph

Centralia Pulp and Paper Mill Historic Marker

Date: 06 02 1962
Description: Neil Nash, vice-president of the Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company, speaking to the crowd at the dedication of the Centralia Pulp and Paper Mill historical mar...
Photograph

Centralia Pulp and Paper Mill Historic Marker

Date: 06 02 1962
Description: Participants in the dedication ceremony for the Centralia Pulp and Paper Mill historical marker included, from left to right: Wisconsin Rapids Mayor Nels J...
Photograph

Rock Outcrop at Skunk HIll

Date: 
Description: View from below looking up at a small group of people standing atop a rock outcrop at Skunk Hill.
Print

Felker Brothers Mfg. Co. Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of the Felker Brothers Manufacturing Company. At the top is a color illustration of a landscape with a red barn, a farmhouse, silos, and a culve...

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