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Homecoming Powwow

Date: 1908
Description: Ho-Chunk men and women sitting and standing around a large medicine drum in an area portioned off by canvas barriers in front of a lodge. Identified as the...
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Relaxation on Hammocks

Date: 1898
Description: Men and women sitting in two hammocks. The people pictured are Julia Murray Ormsby, Fred Werner, and R. Effie (Ettie) Meinhold.
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Ballplayer at Bat

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Description: A Black River Falls baseball player is up to bat.
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Horse with Long Mane

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Description: A stallion with long curly mane, owned by Jack Allison. Allison, a horse dealer from Taylor County, and the horse stand in front of the Post Office on Main...
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Men Outside of American Express Company Office

Date: 09 1896
Description: Four unidentified men posing standing in front of office buildings. Sign in the window of the American Express Company Office shows a horse and advertises ...
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Five String Musicians

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Description: Five men playing string instruments while standing on a town sidewalk. They are identified from left to right as: unidentified man, Anton Hagen, Ole Strand...
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Mose Bone Sample Room

Date: 1900
Description: Men at the Mose Bone Sample Room. Two men are sitting on chairs on the porch in front. A male dwarf is walking on the board sidewalk in front of the saloon...
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Grocery Store on Main Street

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Description: O.C. O'Hearn Grocery Store, Main Street, with the front window filled with apples, and a man standing in the doorway. Another man is standing on the sidewa...
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Two Men in front of Fair Store

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Description: Two men posing standing in front of the Fair Store on Main Street. The man on the right is a dwarf and he is holding a cigar. Posters in the windows advert...
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Two Men with Steam Tractor

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Description: Two men operating a steam tractor/donkey used to haul logs. Piles of logs are stacked behind them.
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Pow Wow Scene

Date: 1908
Description: Drummers and dancers at pow wow led by Chief Winneshiek, below Lutheran Church in a canvas enclosure.
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Family Scything in a Field

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Description: Three men scythe a field, possibly of wheat. Behind the men there are three children and a woman standing in a row.
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Farmers and Threshing Machine

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Description: A group of eight farmers resting on or near a wooden threshing machine.
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Gathering Cranberries

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Description: Men and women in a bog picking cranberries.
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Group Picking Cranberries

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Description: A group of men and women pick cranberries in a bog.
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Three Men Extracting a Stump

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Description: Three men working with a two-horse team on a hill turning a winch to extract stumps, probably a Svenson Grubber sold by J.H. Carnahan.
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Framework of a Barn

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Description: Four men work on the framework of a barn.
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Construction of a Stone Foundation Barn

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Description: Two men stand on the rafters of an unfinished, stone foundation barn.
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Horses and Colts on Farm

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Description: Two men are attending to three horses and three colts in a farmyard.
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Horses in front of Barn

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Description: Two men corral several horses in front of a barn that is possibly Abe Bailey's.

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