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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Loggers posing on narrow-gauge railroad tracks with a railroad velocipede and cant hook near Saddle Mound, a large hill that dominates the local area in Ja... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of York Iron works. Large group of men posing in yard. The boardinghouse is on a hill in the far background. Early iron was mined at Mayville... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of lumber camp with loggers posing in front of a train loaded with logs. |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Men loading rock from Saddle Mound quarry onto a St. Paul Railroad flat car. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a large logging crew posing outdoors in the snow at their camp in front of a log building. One of the men is playing a fiddle or a violin... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a group of men standing knee deep in water using handspikes probably in an attempt to dislodge a lumber raft from a sandbar or from the shor... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Three barefoot boys stand on a pile of logs in the foreground looking across the river at a group of men working to free a log jam in the Big Eddy on the C... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Henry Bigalk relaxes in a wheelbarrow holding an axe in his left hand, while Emil Kuney (Keune) is grabbing the wheelbarrow handles as if to transport Biga... |
| Date: | 05 20 1960 |
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| Description: | Black Earth telephone company maintenance truck in front of the local office. |
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| Description: | A stonecutter, a cooper or smith (identified by the tools of their trade) and a girl with a pail are standing on the left in contrast to a group of ladies ... |
| Date: | 07 19 1933 |
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| Description: | View along stone path leading to the side door of barn/carriage house at Ralph Warner's "The House Next Door," aka the Lovejoy-Duncan House, 11219 N. Webst... |
| Date: | 05 19 1931 |
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| Description: | Oscar Mayer baked ham on a platter decorated with fern fronds. A knife is to the left of the plate. |
| Date: | 08 1929 |
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| Description: | Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Co. Pyrofax plant under construction, 130 Fair Oaks Avenue. Men are pouring a cement floor. |
| Date: | 04 03 1929 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Charles H. Seals, janitor at the Security State Bank, 1965 Atwood Avenue. He is standing next to a rubber tree plant and is cleaning the table. |
| Date: | 03 14 1929 |
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| Description: | People gather to look over the remains of Natalie Troia's store at 102 South Park Street, after it exploded. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A boy is standing at the entrance to a teepee. He is dressed in Native American clothing, and is holding an axe. |
| Date: | 09 13 1949 |
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| Description: | A man and woman driving their horse-drawn cart into the woods to collect buckets that are hanging from maple trees. The buckets catch sap that is used to m... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | A Chippewa woman parching wild rice in Lac Vieux Desert. Lac Vieux Desert is a 4200 acre Michigan-Wisconsin boundary water in Vilas County. |
| Date: | 01 13 1956 |
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| Description: | Edna Kern, wife of Ernest G. Kern, hauling water in buckets to the hen house. |
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