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| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Group of farmers observe and participate in a farm auction. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Schoolhouse of District #5 in Pleasant Ridge built on land donated by Isaac Shepard. Both blacks and whites built, attended, and taught at the school. Peop... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting construction of the first Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1816. In the painting, several o... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Painting depicting Chippewa Falls and the first sawmill on the Chippewa River, built by Jean Brunet. The residence of H.S. Allen, one of the owners of the... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | View of the Chequamegon Hotel, built by the Wisconsin Central railroad interests and opened in 1877. It faced the bay and had a long series of steps leadin... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view, probably early 20th century New York Harbor. |
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| Description: | Three small children with a wagon drawn by a dog. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Farmer on a Farmall 560 tractor with disk harrow pausing to talk to another man in a field in front of a farmhouse. |
| Date: | 02 09 1911 |
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| Description: | Farmer shoveling manure into the box of a horse-drawn International New Low manure spreader in a farm yard. |
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| Description: | Tony Italiano of Waukesha, founder of the Supreme Model Supply Co., with a large model airplane. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | John Schwister at the controls of the "Minnesota-Badger," the plane he built in St. Paul, Minnesota and Wausau, Wisconsin. The passenger beside Schwister i... |
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| Description: | The bi-plane constructed by Melvin Thompson during the years 1918-1920 on his farm near the former quarry in Lamont Township. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | John Schwister and his home-built airplane, "the Minnesota Badger," at the Langlade County Fairgrounds. |
| Date: | 05 27 1961 |
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| Description: | A view overlooking the edge of the town, taken from an eastern slope, with a farm and cows in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Chippewa Falls. |
| Date: | 01 19 1945 |
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| Description: | Looking towards the stone bridge on Edgewood Drive. |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | From Judge Smith Addition, 5th Ward, looking north, toward the city. Drawing is an elevated view of field and plank fence in foreground, road to the left a... |
| Date: | 03 1876 |
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| Description: | Side view of the locomotive purchased by the Pine River and Stevens Point Railroad, being hauled over land from Lone Rock to Richland Center. In the backgr... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Farmer driving a McCormick Farmall 350 tractor with attached ensilage blower near a barn and silo. |
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