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Leiserson and Logging Locomotive

Date: 1914
Description: Taken on logging railroad, Lakeshore and Eastern Railroad, owned and operated by the Kneeland-McLurg Lumber company, Phillips, Wisconsin. Photograph is tak...
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Rail Yard at Depot

Date: 1895
Description: Railroad depot surrounded by stacked lumber for wood-burning locomotives. A few homes can be seen in the background.
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Main Street

Date: 1885
Description: View across unpaved Main Street, with storefronts on the right, including a restaurant and meat market. Caption reads: "Main Street".
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Threshing Steam Tractor

Date: 1900
Description: Men and boys posing around a threshing steam tractor. Oliver Johnson is in the foreground. John Bergeson and Art(?) are on top of the stack. Henning Berges...
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View of Town after the fire of July 27, 1894

Date: 1894
Description: Elevated view of the town as it appeared following the fire of 1894.
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Rebuilding after Fire

Date: 1895
Description: Rebuilding of homes and barns after the fire in 1894.
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View of Town

Date: 1890
Description: Elevated view of the town as it appeared before the fire of 1894.
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Cranberry Ditches

Date: 1935
Description: Digging flood ditches on a cranberry marsh near Phillips.
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Residential Street

Date: 1910
Description: View across road towards a neighborhood along another road. Houses are on the right, and two children in the center are standing on the sidewalk in the cen...
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Park Hotel

Date: 1900
Description: View across road towards the Park Hotel, with children playing on the sidewalk in front of the hotel. Caption reads: "Park Falls, Wis."
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Park Hotel

Date: 1900
Description: Front view of the Park Hotel, with an obstructed view, through trees, of the porch.
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Original Catholic Church and Rectory, Parish of St. Anthony

Date: 04 25 1931
Description: A view of a church and what appears to be the adjoining rectory. This is the Parish of St. Anthony in the town of Fifield.
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Main Street, Fifield

Date: 07 27 1893
Description: View across street of towards the business district along the left.
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Fred Smith's Concrete Park

Date: 1994
Description: Fred Smith's Concrete Park, including folk art pieces depicting people, dogs and a team of horses.
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Pioneer Sauna

Date: 06 1947
Description: Log cabin-style sauna or steam bath.
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Normal School Building

Date: 
Description: Three-story brick building with two entrances, windows, and a hip roof. Signs above both entrances says: County Normal.
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Meili-Blumberg Model 10 Power Grader

Date: 1948
Description: Man grading a dirt road with a Meili-Blumberg Model 10 power grader attached to an International M tractor. Original caption states: "To maintain its 67 m...
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School Group

Date: 
Description: Conservationist Sigurd Olson (front row, left) posing with his class, probably at Prentice, Wisconsin.
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Cranberry Harvest

Date: 09 1934
Description: Cranberry harvesters using cranberry rakes make their way across a flooded cranberry bog. In the background crates of harvested cranberries are stacked wai...
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Flooded Cranberry Marsh Harvest

Date: 09 1934
Description: A large group of men working in a line with cranberry rakes to harvest cranberries in a flooded marsh. The men at work are all wearing waders. In the backg...

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