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Lead Region of the Upper Mississippi River

Date: 1853
Description: Engraved view of miners and hillside mines in the Lead Region. Caption reads: "Sketch of the Lead Region."
Photograph

Early Automobile

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Description: Tintype (ferrotype) of a man seitting in an early automobile.
Photograph

Changing a Tire

Date: 1923
Description: Tire blowouts were a frequent hazard of early automobile travel.
Photograph

Breeders Association Meeting

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Description: Meeting of the board of directors of the newly formed Barron County Holstein Breeders Association.
Photograph

Hot Formaldehyde Treatment

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Description: Agricultural extension demonstration on the William Wegert farm near Friendship. A group of farmers are watching a hot formaldehyde treatment on potatoes f...
Photograph

Farm Demonstration

Date: 1920
Description: A group of farmers listening to a talk by an agricultural extension representative (probably the man on the left).
Photograph

Joe McCarthy as Best Man

Date: 06 1945
Description: Joseph R. McCarthy in his Marine uniform acting as best man at the wedding of his best friend (and later campaign manager), Urban Van Susteren, at Syracuse...
Photograph

Advanced Trench Digging

Date: 07 17 1917
Description: ROTC engineers, probably at Fort Sheridan, in training for trench construction. Victor Morris of Milwaukee, in whose wartime album this photograph appears,...
Photograph

Visting Rotarians

Date: 1931
Description: A group of Rotarian tourists pose next to their tour bus in England. Joseph Jackson of Madison, the tall man in the back row wearing a hat, was a national...
Drawing

Man Clinging to Plank after Steamer Sinks

Date: 1857
Description: Illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper of John Tice clinging to a piece of wreckage after the sinking of the steamer Central Amer...
Photograph

Packinghouse Workers Organizing

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Description: During the 1930s the CIO's Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee PWOC) began a national organizing campaign among packinghouse workers. This undated p...
Photograph

Sigurd Olson

Date: 1942
Description: Sigurd Olson standing in a Border Lakes Outfitting Company canoe.
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Portaging at Curtain Falls

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Description: View of men and young boys with canoes pulled up on rocks near a rapids during an unidentified wilderness canoe trip led by Sigurd Olson.
Photograph

Ruth Finney

Date: 1937
Description: Journalist Ruth Finney, one of the few women journalists who covered hard news in Washington D.C. Finney was married to columnist Robert S. Allen, but cont...
Photograph

Devil's Lake CCC Barracks

Date: 1935
Description: Interior view of Civilian Conservation Corps barracks at Devil's Lake State Park. Several men can be seen sitting leisurely on their bunks. Two heating sto...
Photograph

Removing Stumps on Uhrenholdt Farm

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Description: A group of men remove a large stump with the help of horses and a winch on the family farm.
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On the Pier at Black Point

Date: 08 01 1954
Description: Ernst C. Schmidt and Mary Helen Anderson stand on a pier and pose next to the Black Point launch "Nepenthe."
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The Fargo Boys at the Farm

Date: 07 1916
Description: Frank Fargo Jr. is resting his elbow on his older brother Stuart's shoulder as they are posing standing in front of a large tent. Both are wearing bib over...
Historical Object

Presidential Political Campaign Buttons

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Description: Five assorted rectangular presidential political campaign buttons for Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and Al Gore. One button is white with a blue stripe th...
Photograph

New Waverly

Date: 04 09 1911
Description: Lucy Rumsey Holt is driving her new electric car with her husband, W.A. Holt, who is sitting in the passenger seat.

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