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School Picnic

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Description: Mr. Spalding and Rev. Mr. Doane (with beard), posing outdoors with a group of children.
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Portrait of Joe Bear Heart and Wife Posing Outdoors

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Description: Lantern slide of a Ho-Chunk woman posing sitting on the ground in a clearing with trees in the background. She is sitting cross-legged and is holding an ea...
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Joe Bear Heart near Table of Drying Corn

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Description: Lantern slide of a Ho-Chunk man wearing a hat posing standing behind a table loaded with kernels of corn on a cloth drying by a wooden building. The man is...
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Robert Bloch and Harold Gauer

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Description: Robert Bloch & Harold Gauer play poker sitting at a table strewn with cards and chips.
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Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Hand-colored image of a Wisconsin cranberry bog and harvest. Men are harvesting in the flooded cranberry marshes.
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Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Hand-colored image of field hands harvesting with cranberry rakes from a flooded cranberry marsh.
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Driving Crew on the Logs

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Description: Driving crew posing on the logs. They are holding peaveys and cant hooks, tools used to move logs. The man on the left is holding a pail and the man in the...
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Rex Magnus Club

Date: 10 09 1887
Description: A large group of men pose outside the Rex Magnus Club. Some of the men on the left are holding musical instruments. The words "Rex Magnus" are on the roof.
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J.E. Rhodes & Co., Pork and Beef Packers

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Description: View from street of the front of the J.E. Rhodes & Co., Pork and Beef Packers building on Main Street. A group of men, with a cat and a dog, are posing in ...
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Rock Outcrop at Skunk HIll

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Description: View from below looking up at a small group of people standing atop a rock outcrop at Skunk Hill.
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At the River's Edge

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Description: A man stands next to a bench and a picnic table on a cliff overlooking a river. In the foreground are large rocks.
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Bank of Wisconsin

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Description: View from street towards two men posing at the entrance to the Bank of Wisconsin on Main Street. The window has Savings Department painted on it, and insid...
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Towering Rock Formations

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Description: View of four natural rock towers. There is a person (probably a man) standing on top of the one on the far left.
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Canoeing On a River

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Description: A man relaxing in a canoe on a river or lake. Behind him is a rock formation covered with trees.
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Boating Through Rock Formations

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Description: A man rowing a boat on a river among large rock formations. Trees are growing out of the rocks.
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Diamond Drill Outfit Interior

Date: 1909
Description: Several men standing next to gears and machinery inside a diamond drill outfit.
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Man Pulling a Combined Disc and Harrow

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Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man pulling a "combined disk and harrow" through a field with a tractor.
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Man Walking Behind Horse-Drawn Harrow

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Description: View towards a man walking behind a harrow in a farm field. Farm buildings are in the distance. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
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Man on Horse-Drawn Peg Tooth Harrow

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Description: Rear view of a man on a horse-drawn peg tooth harrow working in a field. Lantern slide.
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Man Working with Walking Plow

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Description: Left side view of a man working in a field with a horse-drawn walking plow. Lantern slide.

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