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Alexander Lake's Nursery

Date: 1896
Description: A boy and a man are holding up small white pine trees, while workers are planting them at Alexander Lake's nursery. In the background are horses and wagons...
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Men Using Tractor and Threshing Machine

Date: 1897
Description: Large group portrait of men and young boys operating a steam tractor that is being used for belt-driven threshing machinery in a field. In the foreground a...
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Farm Family Posing Outdoors

Date: 1900
Description: View down driveway towards a farm family posing in front of their farmhouse and farm buildings. An older man and woman are sitting. Three women are standin...
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Merchants Hotel

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Description: View from street of two men posed sitting in a wagon full of grain bags and pulled by a team of four horses in front of the Merchants Hotel. L.S.Y. June, t...
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Main Street

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Description: View down Main Street, with storefronts on both sides. A wagon loaded with straw is coming down the snow-covered street pulled by two horses. People are ga...
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Painters in Workshop

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Description: Painters posed standing in a workshop near a wagon frame. The man on the left has a pipe in his mouth.
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Group of Men near Two Wooden Buildings

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Description: Group of men and a young girl posed standing and in wagons outside two large wooden buildings, possibly a sawmill. There is a row of barrels along the top ...
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Goodyear Mill

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Description: Elevated view of a large group of men posing standing in front of a sawmill, probably the Goodyear Mill, three miles south of Saddle, or a mill located in ...
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York Iron Works

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Description: York Iron Works with a view of the blast furnace. On the hill is the boardinghouse and the dance hall. A man is working near the railroad cars, and other p...
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Men Posed at Sawmill

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Description: Large group of men posed standing in front of a sawmill. Three men are posed standing in a wagon pulled by a team of two horses wearing fly-nets. One man w...
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Logging Camp, Black River Falls, Wisconsin

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Description: Elevated view of men posed standing in a logging camp, displaying six teams of two oxen. One man is posed seated in a buggy pulled by a single horse, and a...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Elevated view of men posed standing in a snow-covered logging camp. One man is holding a cat, and there is a dog standing nearby. The photographers wagon i...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed holding logging tools while sitting and standing in a logging camp. Two men stand displaying two teams of two horses, and one man is dis...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men, women and children standing on the snow-covered ground in front of a log building. Some of the men are posed holding logging tools, and two o...
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Snow-Covered Road

Date: 1900
Description: Winter scene with a man sitting in a wagon pulled by a single horse down a snow-covered road. The horse is wearing blinders and a turnout blanket. Two men ...
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Group Posed in front of House

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Description: Three men, three women, a boy, and a dog hitched to a small wagon are posed standing in front of a two-story brick house. A team of horses with a buggy is ...
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Large Group of People Posing Outdoors

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Description: Large group of men, women and children posing standing next to five men posing sitting in a wagon pulled by a team of two horses on a country road. One boy...
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Small Child with Photographer's Wagon

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Description: Glass negative with two images. Left, a small child by a child's wagon and the photography wagon of N.L. Ellis. Right, same components as the left image.
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Family in Front of Frame House and Farm Buildings

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Description: Man and woman posing sitting, and a woman, boy, and girl posing standing. In the background is a frame house and farm buildings.
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Group of People in the Yard in Front of Frame House

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Description: View across yard of elderly man and woman posing sitting, with two men, two boys, a girl and small child with a wagon posing standing. The group, along wit...

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