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Log Driving Crew

Date: 1905
Description: Log driving crew for the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company. Crew members are in the process of breaking a jam at the Big Eddy. One of the men is carrying a yo...
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Engine Powered Hay Press on Farm

Date: 1905
Description: Men operating a hay press powered by an International Harvester stationary engine as a woman is looking on. They are working near a barn which has chink-lo...
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Men Cutting Wood with Engine Powered Saw

Date: 1905
Description: Men cutting logs with a saw powered by an International Harvester gasoline engine on the farm of Casper Kaster.
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Construction Of Streetcar Tracks

Date: 1905
Description: Construction crew building a double streetcar track around the Capitol Square on North Pinckney Street. The oversized awnings were common around the Square...
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Bossy's Baronial Barn

Date: 1905
Description: Log cabin barn and haystack.
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International Harvester Engine Trade Card

Date: 1905
Description: Advertising card for International Harvester stationary engines. Features a color illustration of a young girl fetching water from a trough. A pump powered...
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Clearing the Land

Date: 1905
Description: Man and woman using a double-handled saw to clear trees from their land.
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Logging Camp Crew

Date: 1905
Description: Logging crew posed in snow at a logging camp.
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Frank William Kelley, as a Dentist

Date: 1905
Description: Frank William Kelley, member of the Menomonie High School class of 1905, depicted as a dentist. He is pictured holding a large dental apparatus and a large...
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Robert E. Clough, as an Inventor

Date: 1905
Description: Robert E. Clough, member of the Menomonie High School class of 1905, depicted as an inventor, using a large drill press. Part of a yearbook created by clas...
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Place's Rapids on the Peshtigo River

Date: 1905
Description: Loggers known as "river pigs" round up stray logs with pikes and peaveys at Place's Rapids.
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Washburn Observatory

Date: 1905
Description: The observatory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Boscobel Meat Market

Date: 1905
Description: A man and a woman stand on the customer side of the counters. Phil Hof stands with a large knife behind a tabled covered with meat, while Sam and Herman Ho...
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Ice Gorge on the Mississippi River

Date: 1905
Description: View from shoreline of ice on the river beginning to break up. There is a piece of wood with a rope attached sticking out of the river bed.
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Shoveling Snow on Rural Road

Date: 1905
Description: Winter scene of snow-covered road with two men shoveling snow. A dog is standing in the road near the men. The road is lined with fenced fields and telepho...
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Stone Quarry

Date: 1905
Description: Stone quarry, with men working near a wagon, and at the base of the hill. In the background is a steep hill with trees.
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Ester Point, Turkey River

Date: 1905
Description: View down railroad tracks, showing the switching station, water tank, and buildings. Two men stand on the railroad tracks. Ester Point is near Cassville, W...
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Cooking on the New Stove

Date: 1905
Description: A woman is stirring a pot on what looks like a new stove. It is a gleaming Acme, from Newark Stove Works. There is a warming closet in the top half. The ca...
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Workshop

Date: 1905
Description: An available light photograph of the interior of the workshop of E.W. Underwood. Two bicycles lean against a workbench. There are various hand tools hangin...
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Lucy A. Kaufmann

Date: 1905
Description: Lucy Kaufmann poses in an open, wooded area holding a hoe. She is wearing a tattered hat; her skirt and blouse are torn. There are two sheds and woodpiles ...

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