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Big Falls Logging Crew

Date: 1900
Description: Four men from a logging crew posing standing in the snow with teams of horses and oxen.
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Taking a Break at the Side of the Road

Date: 1917
Description: Carl Peterson and his family, take a rest while driving their car on a rural dirt road. His son's name is Laurie and the girl is Muriel Peterson Jacobs. Of...
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Big Falls Fire Fighters

Date: 1910
Description: Group portrait of a fire fighting crew posing with buckets and shovels. They are battling the Big Falls Forest Fire.
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Elevated View of Residential Area

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view from Our Savior's Lutheran Church looking west into a residential area. The Methodist Church is in the background.
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Cutting Crew in the Woods

Date: 1900
Description: A cutting crew of three men posing in the woods with a work horse next to felled trees.
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Waupaca County Asylum

Date: 1902
Description: View across lawn the Waupaca County Asylum facade. The structure consists of three buildings connected by windowed passageways. The building is symmetrical...
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Elevator and Mill Street Bridge

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Description: A horse-drawn carriage crosses the Mill Street Bridge. Another carriage is parked near the grain elevator.
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St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church

Date: 1910
Description: View across road toward the front facade and left side of St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church. The Gothic Revival-style structure has two steeples, the...
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City Park

Date: 07 04 1901
Description: A view of a park with benches, a gazebo, and a Civil War soldiers monument. The monument was dedicated on July 4, 1901.
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Entering the City

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Description: View along a dirt road toward a lake, with the town of Weyauwega on the far shoreline.
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Family Portrait

Date: 1913
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Ashmun family posed on and behind a bench. C.S. Ashmun, Jane Ashmun and Isabel Ashmun Roberts are seated on the bench, while ...
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View of Big Falls

Date: 1910
Description: View of town roads and buildings with stumpland foreground.
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Roadside Picnic

Date: 1917
Description: Roadside picnic on the way to Waupaca. Mary E. Smith is seated with a friend on a white blanket with thermoses and a picnic basket. In the background the a...
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Wedding Day

Date: 09 1913
Description: Wedding day of Alice Armstrong Ashmun, Mary's niece, to Edwin Trenbath. They are standing in wedding attire in front of a porch while Alice is cradling a ...
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Children Reading a Dictionary

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Description: Muriel and Laurie Peterson, stopped on a country road near Scandinavia, looking something up in a dictionary.
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Gathering of Sleighs

Date: 1910
Description: A gathering of sleighs near Scandinavia.
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Woman and Children in Buggy

Date: 1922
Description: Group portrait of Christine Peterson and her two children, Laurie and Muriel, sitting in a buggy pulled by a single horse. In the background is a building ...
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Baby Driving Cart with Man

Date: 1913
Description: View across yard towards Carl Peterson sitting next to his son James holding the reins of two horses while sitting on a wagon. In the background are farm b...
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James Peterson with Picnic Basket in Field

Date: 1922
Description: View across field towards James Peterson sitting on a blanket holding a basket. In the background are trees.
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Two Men Posing with Cow

Date: 1922
Description: Two men are posing with a cow in a field under trees. One of the men is sitting as if milking the cow with one hand, while he is drinking from a bottle wit...

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