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| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Railroad depot surrounded by stacked lumber for wood-burning locomotives. A few homes can be seen in the background. |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Prairie Farm Creamery with horse-drawn wagons in front. Caption reads: "Prairie Farm Creamery, Pr. Farm, Wis." |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Old Uncle Billy Johnson home at Governor Phillip's house, about six miles north of Prairie du Sac near highway 12. Portion of house, rock formation in back... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Korean farmer hauling wood for fuel on his back with an "A-frame." Original caption reads: "One ocean away, one century behind, the Korean farmer saddles h... |
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| Description: | Native American children, presumably students, and adults pose outside an Indian school. The location is not verified, but may be in the Hayward vicinity. |
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| Description: | Elevated panoramic view of the Wisconsin River shoreline in the Wisconsin Dells. There is an excursion boat, The Dell Queen, visible in the lower le... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | The hotel is set in a grove of trees against a backdrop of rolling hills. There are two chimneys and a belvedere. There is a barn behind with a supply of f... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Two men cutting logs with a circular saw powered by a stationary engine. One man is feeding logs to the saw while the other man is standing by a pile of th... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Three men use circular saws to cut wood in a forest. The tractor on the right appears to be providing belt-driven power to the saws. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A man standing in the cook house doorway at a convict camp comprised of several tents and a iron cage on wheels. |
| Date: | 10 04 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress using an axe to split a log into firewood. A hand-operated washing machine is standing in the yard of a farmhouse in the background... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman using an axe to chop wood in a rural area. A pile of logs is in the background. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Farm equipment, including a grain binder and mower, are lying in the snow outside a farmhouse. In the background on the right two children are standing nea... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | The back porch and the nearby wood pile, on the John Esch farm. There are two men, two women and a dog on the porch. |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a cottage surrounded by birch trees at Nature Lovers Paradise on Jackson Lake near Grand View. Text with the photograph reads: "The BIRCHE... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a one-story wood cottage or cabin with a stone chimney and icicles handing off the roof. The ground and roof are covered in snow, and a pa... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A man is standing on top of a stack of firewood that is loaded on his horse-drawn bobsled. He is wearing a coat and hat. In the background are two homes an... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | "The 69 year-old woman on the front porch lives alone at the bottom of this unpaved, unlighted, ungraded alley. The building next to her is empty. She hea... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A building, possibly an outhouse, with a woodpile behind it. In the background, two houses with porches are visible. "No roads or streetlights or sidewalks... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Children play on swings in front of the imposing Port Wing Consolidated School. It is two stories tall, with wood frame construction, a tall sandstone foun... |
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