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The Conklin Fire

Date: 1915
Description: Fire fighters standing amid smoking timbers aim their hoses to douse the flames.
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Studio Portrait of Thomas Thunder and Wife

Date: 1915
Description: Full-length studio portrait of Thomas Thunder (HoonkHaGaKah) (Son of [WaConChaKah] John Thunder aka Dr. Thunder and [WeHonPeKaw] Lucy Bear, Thunder), and h...
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Fire Engine and Fire Fighters

Date: 1915
Description: A small group of fire fighters fight an unseen fire with three fire hoses. Smoke obscures the fire, and on the right, a fire engine has smoke billowing fro...
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Studio Portrait of a Family

Date: 1915
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a family. (l to r) John Rogue (Coose He Rae Kaw) (son of Young Rogue [Wa Cho We Kaw] and [Wa Kon Hu Gi Win Kaw]) (from Winne...
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Portrait of Louis Johnson Woman in Winter Clothing

Date: 1915
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man, Louis Johnson (HaNuKaw), posing sitting on the left with his arms and legs crossed and we...
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Studio Portrait of Three Young Ho-Chunk Men

Date: 1915
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two young Ho-Chunk men posing sitting in front of another young Ho-Chunk man posing standing. The man on ...
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Prisoners Working

Date: 1915
Description: View down road of a group of prisoners wearing striped jumpsuits doing road work while supervisors look on. A horse-drawn wagon is parked near a fence, and...
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Chief Clancy in an Open Car

Date: 1915
Description: Chief Thomas A. Clancy of the Milwaukee, Wis. Fire Department, with others, posed in an open touring car, as though for a parade.
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Curtiss Flying Boat at Trout Lake

Date: 1915
Description: View from shoreline of Trout Lake of a group of six men posed with the pilot, possibly Jack Vilas, on an early seaplane or flying boat floating in the wate...
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Interior of Hardware Store and Post Office

Date: 1915
Description: Three men are posing inside the Franklin Hardware Company and Eland Post Office. Jerome Francis Franklin Sr. is on the right, and two possible Franklin rel...

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