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Three Woman on Main Street

Date: 1895
Description: Three women (Jennie Parsons Kelly, left, and Lena Eisenback Post, center, and an unidentified woman on the right) on Main Street in front of Yep Ah Sing's ...
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Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1900
Description: Two Ho-Chunk men wearing beaded shirts are gathering cranberries (hoocake) alongside a Ho-Chunk woman and a white man and woman. A large group of cranberry...
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Cranberry Pickers

Date: 1905
Description: Winnebago Indians and Black River Falls townspeople harvesting cranberries.
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Silo Under Construction

Date: 1900
Description: Three men pose next to a silo that is under construction, with wood scaffolding around it.
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Interior of Barbershop

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Description: Barber shop with customers and shaving mug rack. African American man is probably Frank Lyons.
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Blacksmith Shop

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Description: Blacksmith in apron standing in the doorway of a blacksmith shop. Man identified as possibly Fred Weller.
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Blacksmith Shop

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Description: Blacksmith in apron standing just outside the doorway of a blacksmith shop. Man identified as possibly Fred Weller.
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Blacksmith Shop

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Description: Man wearing a derby, a boy, and a blacksmith wearing an apron, standing just outside the doorway of a blacksmith shop. Blacksmith identified as probably Fr...
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Bicycle Repair Shop

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Description: Man repairing a bicycle in a shop, probably the Repair Shop of Leslie Werner. Man identified as probably Leslie Werner.
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Interior of Repair Shop

Date: 1900
Description: Two men in a repair shop, probably the repair shop of Leslie Werner. Leslie Werner is identified as the man wearing the hat on the left.
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Photograph Gallery of Charles Van Schaick

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Description: A man sleeping in a chair, possibly Thomas Thunder (HoonkHaGaKah). On the back wall of Van Schaick’s studio are photographs he made available for purchase.
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Workmen Installing Telephone Poles

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Description: Workmen erecting a telephone pole with a horse team.
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Three Workmen

Date: 1900
Description: Man posing on a telephone pole with climbing equipment, with two men standing below.
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Lineman Suspended above Street

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Description: Elevated view towards a lineman sitting in a suspended seat, possibly stringing telephone line. There is an automobile parked near a brick building across ...
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Team of Horses with Winch

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Description: Elevated view of team of horses powering a winch for moving a house at the rear of the Jackson County Bank. Men are probably preparing the lot for the hous...
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Team of Horses with Winch

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Description: Elevated view of team of horses powering a winch for moving a house at the rear of the Jackson County Bank.
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Team of Horses with Winch

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Description: Team of horses powering a winch for moving a house. The winch was anchored to a post in the ground, logs were then placed under the house foundation and re...
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Men near Black River

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Description: Men working at a rock crushing works on the east side of the Black River across from Spaulding's Rocks.
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Senior High School

Date: 1897
Description: Workers pose on scaffolding in front of the Senior High School during construction. A child and a man with a bicycle are on the lower left side underneath ...
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Men Repairing Street

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Description: Men filling in Main Street after the 1911 flood. Forms are probably for the basement of the Cozy Corner Tavern.

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