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Businesses on North Main Street

Date: 1950
Description: View of some of the businesses on North Main Street, including the Strand Theater and Olk Drugs.
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Fox River and Atlas Paper Company

Date: 
Description: View of paper mill on the river.
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Four Wheel Drive Auto Factory in Clintonville

Date: 1909
Description: Architectural rendering of a four wheel drive auto factory, with a smokestack billowing smoke. The four-wheel drive propulsion was invented by Otto Zachow ...
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War Worker

Date: 1918
Description: An unidentified woman who worked at the Four Wheel Drive factory in Clintonville assembling trucks during World War I. She is wearing a special uniform fo...
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Four Women and Truck

Date: 1918
Description: Pictured here are four of the women who joined the work force at the Four Wheel Drive Company in Clintonville in order to build trucks for the American and...
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Concrete Pour at Clintonville

Date: 1914
Description: Paving the main street with concrete was an occasion that brought out a large part of the Clintonville community to watch.
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War Departmental Trial

Date: 1918
Description: Captain Alexander E. Williams of the War Department testing the experimental truck that the Four Wheel Drive Company hoped to manufacture for the army. In ...
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First Four-Wheel Drive

Date: 1909
Description: Five men pose with the first successful four-wheel drive vehicle, which was made in Clintonville in 1909. The inventor, Otto Zachow, is the man seated at t...
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Ward Hotel

Date: 1925
Description: A three-story wooden structure with front porch identified as the Ward Hotel by a large sign on the front of the building. Several automobiles are parked d...
Postcard

North Main Street

Date: 1910
Description: Black and white photograph looking across unpaved North Main Street towards commercial buildings. Two horse-drawn carriages and one horse-drawn freight wag...
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1910
Description: View looking across unpaved Main Street towards commercial buildings, including a meat market and the First National Bank. There are horse-drawn vehicles p...
Postcard

High School

Date: 1914
Description: Black and white photographic postcard of the high school. Children are standing outdoors in front. Caption reads: "High School, Clintonville, Wis."
Postcard

Ward House

Date: 1910
Description: Black and white postcard view looking up unpaved road and sidewalk towards the Ward House. Caption reads: "Ward House, Clintonville, Wis."
Postcard

Dynamiting the Bridge

Date: 07 24 1912
Description: View down street towards the dynamiting of the bridge over the Pigeon River during the flood. Caption reads: "Dynamiting the Bridge, Flood of July 24, 1912...
Postcard

Residence District

Date: 1910
Description: View down wooden sidewalk towards an unpaved street on the left, and a residential are with houses with large porches on the right. A group of people are w...
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Eight People Dining

Date: 1893
Description: Stereograph of an interior group portrait of eight people sitting around a dining table. Identified as the B.G. Stieg family, the W. Dittberner family, Ann...
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Stream Improvement

Date: 1935
Description: A stone weir has been built on a meandering river to improve it for fish habitat.
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Ward House, Clintonville

Date: 
Description: Exterior view of the Ward House from across the street. The Ward House was built in 1872 by F.H. Ward.
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Bernhard G. Stieg at Sedgwick's Drug Store

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Description: A man is standing behind a counter in a drugstore, pouring liquid from one bottle into a different container. Caption reads: "Bernhard G. Stieg, Pharmacist...
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South Main Street and Dittberner Tailor Shop

Date: 1894
Description: Stereograph view down an unpaved road, with trees and buildings on either side. A large white house is faintly visible at the end of the road. Caption read...

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