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Church in Cassville

Date: 1930
Description: Winter scene overlooking town, showing Baptist church in background.
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Woodpile near Wire Fence

Date: 07 17 1960
Description: A woodpile stacked next to a wire fence. Behind the woodpile is a white clapboard building with several windows and a door.
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Glen Haven District #6 School Building

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Description: View from dirt road of brick schoolhouse with porch and small bell tower.
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Hickory Grove School

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Description: View across field of stone school building with outhouse and a wood pile. In the background is a church with a belfry. A road is along the right leading up...
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Little Grant School District #12 School Building

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Description: View down hill of a teacher standing in an open doorway, with students standing and sitting on the wooden landing of a clapboard one-room school building. ...
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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: A teacher and students are posing on the landing of a clapboard one-room schoolhouse. On the right is a stack of firewood, and a hill rises steeply in the ...
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Unidentified Men and Girl

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Description: Two unidentified men and a young girl posing outside what is possibly a one-room schoolhouse.
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Farm Yard with Windmill

Date: 1900
Description: Three people stand in the farm yard. The man on the right is feeding chickens, a woman in the center stands holding an apron. The man on the left is carryi...
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Typical Home in Site I

Date: 08 14 1935
Description: Man in coveralls standing outside a small house. A ladder leans against the side of the house on the left. There are four wooden posts in the foreground.
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Exterior Group Portrait of European American Men

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Description: Stereograph of a large group of European American men posing standing outdoors.
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Flood Damage

Date: 1911
Description: View across river of buildings along the river's edge. Identified as probably Melrose or Northbend, not Black River Falls. Probably from the flood of 1911.
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Will's Saw Outfit

Date: 1905
Description: Will von der Sump, second from left, is watching as two men guide a log into the circular saw blade of a portable sawmill. A steam engine at left powers th...
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Browning School

Date: 12 15 1904
Description: Children of a range of ages are standing with their teacher in front of the Browning School. The children are well-dressed in winter clothes. The school is...
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Cutting Fire Wood

Date: 1905
Description: Six men posing in front of a portable steam driven circular saw on the Von der Sump farm. A portion of the saw blade is visible between two men in the cent...
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Two Woodcutters

Date: 1907
Description: Two young men are posing under a tree in front of neatly piled stacks of fuelwood, and a tall pile of fuelwood on the right. The man on the left is sitting...

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