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| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Robert M. La Follette, Sr., campaigning in Cumberland. La Follette led the reform faction in Wisconsin's Republican party and in 1900, he was elected gover... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Robert M. La Follette, Sr., speaking to a crowd from back of a wagon. This image is one of a series of views of his appearance at a fair in Cumberland, Wi... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Robert M. La Follette, Sr., with his fist in the air, speaking from the back of a wagon. He is wearing a hat and a suit without the coat. It was in part du... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Robert M. La Follette, Sr., with his fist in the air, speaking from the back of a wagon. It was in part due to his vigorous speaking style that La Follette... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Large group portrait of men and young boys operating a steam tractor that is being used for belt-driven threshing machinery in a field. In the foreground a... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | De Pere lock on the Fox River with a construction crew at work. This is the only wooden lock on the Fox River. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Thomas B. Jeffery, founder of the Thomas B. Jeffery Company of Kenosha in 1902. Before that Jeffery produced several experimental automobiles, including th... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Workers pose on scaffolding in front of the Senior High School during construction. A child and a man with a bicycle are on the lower left side underneath ... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Yahara River at the Steensland Bridge. A man stands on the bank. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Lumbertown Street (Now Highway 47). There are horse-drawn carts and a car. Sailors burned down Lumbertown in 1897. It was later built up as a resort town.... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Boats used for fighting fires are docked near a walkway. On the left the walkway is full of men, some gathered near the boats and a fire hose stretched out... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Men pushing and pulling two carts, one with a barrel, around a street corner. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | A group of men carrying lunch boxes are walking away from a steam engine train, which is near another train and power lines. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Two men escorting a fashionably dressed woman with a feathered boa obscuring part of her face. People are standing in the background near a train next to t... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | A man papers a barn with posters for the "Black River Falls Fair, September 7, 8, 9 & 10." |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | F.D. Eyerley crouches down to give his daughter a kiss. A bicycle is propped against a wooden fence which runs the perimeter of the front yard of the West ... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Aerial view drawing of a velodrome with racers on the oval track and stands full of spectators. Signage on the outer wall indicates that it is the Racine A... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Three men (Charles Crane, unidentified man, and Stuart Harbridge) in racing gear on a triplet tandem bike in front of racer Al Bauman on the Racine Athleti... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a large group of mostly men in touring clothes posed outdoors with bicycles. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a man fixing a bicycle while a woman and two children look on. The woman's outfit sports "leg o' mutton" (or gig... |
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