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Sample Pine Log

Date: 1908
Description: Cut sample pine log mounted as an exhibit in Irvine Park.
Postcard

Color Postcard Depicting Rock River

Date: 1908
Description: Color postcard showing a landscape along River Park.
Postcard

Michigan Street Scene

Date: 1915
Description: Color postcard depicting residents, automobiles and streetcars. Caption reads: "Lapeer St. & Genesee Ave. Saginaw, Mich."
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Picnic at Interstate Park

Date: 1936
Description: Picnic area at Interstate Park showing parked automobiles and visitors.
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Group of Usherettes

Date: 1950
Description: Usherettes perform Swiss folk dances for the annual William Tell Festival.
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Scene from McGillivray Fire

Date: 07 1912
Description: Elevated view of the fire at the McGillivray factory. Horse-drawn vehicles and onlookers are on the road in the foreground.
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Beginning of the 1911 Flood

Date: 1911
Description: Exterior view of Black River Falls at the beginning of the flood of 1911. Note the roof of the powerhouse in the water, and the Spaulding wagon shop on the...
Photograph

Deer Hunters and Their Deer

Date: 1908
Description: Copy photograph of an outdoor portrait of a group of men standing and kneeling in front of a line of deer suspended across First Street in Black River Fall...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Orphan Train Arrival

Date: 04 30 1909
Description: Newspaper clipping of prospective parents looking up at children in the windows of the orphan train. The caption reads: "The Arrival of the Babies."
Postcard

Turck-Schottler House at Old World Wisconsin

Date: 1950
Description: Color photographic postcard of the Turck-Schottler house at Old World Wisconsin near Eagle. It is an 1875 German blockbau building tradition that is listed...
Photograph

Sailing the "Senta"

Date: 1925
Description: View across water of Dr. Otto L. Schmidt, second from right, sitting at the helm of the "Senta," with a crew of four. Dr. Schmidt was married to Emma Seipp...
Photograph

At the Launching

Date: 06 18 1927
Description: A family group poses on the occasion of the launching of the yacht "Mystery" at Geneva Lake. They are, from left, Alma Schmidt Petersen; Alfred Fridolin Ma...
Photograph

Vel Phillips and Jeannetta Robinson

Date: 10 1998
Description: Vel Phillips standing beside Jeannetta Robinson. Jeannetta is holding a plaque that awards the James Howard Baker Award to Career Youth Development, Inc. f...
Photograph

Vel Phillips at Community Brainstorming Conference

Date: 05 1998
Description: From the left is Reverend John K. Patterson, Mildred Harpole, Vel Phillips, Frank Cumberbatch, and Moderator Russell Stamper. Russell is moderating the Com...
Photograph

Vel Phillips and Four People

Date: 10 1998
Description: Group portrait, from left: Curtis Harris, Jeannetta Robinson, Donald Sykes, Vel Phillips, and Rose Lue-Hing. Vel Phillips is wearing a red suit coat.
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Vel Phillips and Mother Naomi Scott

Date: 12 1997
Description: Vel Phillips sitting, on left, and looking on as Mother Naomi Scott speaks into a microphone at a podium at the Community Brainstorming Conference.
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Sheryl Albers at Tommy Thompson Birthday Party

Date: 11 19 1994
Description: Sheryl Albers speaking from behind a podium, during what an attached note says is Governor Tommy Thompson's birthday party. The governor is standing and sm...
Photograph

Chippewa Family in Canoe

Date: 1910
Description: View across water towards an Ojibwe couple paddling a birch bark canoe with their five children seated in the center. The family is dressed in western styl...
Postcard

Door County Sunrise

Date: 1996
Description: A view of Lake Michigan at sunrise, with an orange sky and gulls, ducks and a sailboat in silhouette.
Postcard

Fisherman's Wharf; Gills Rock

Date: 1983
Description: Color view of the marina at Gills Rock. Several privately-owned boats are docked. A wooden pier is in the foreground. Caption reads: "Fisherman's Wharf; Gi...

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