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Construction Workers at Dam Construction Site

Date: 1915
Description: Workers posing in a doorway at the Prairie du Sac dam construction site. Two men appear to be working on a gas lamp, while others are holding spools of wir...
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Construction Workers at Dam Construction Site

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of a group of workers posing on the east bank of the Wisconsin River at the power dam construction site. One man is strumming his shovel like...
Postcard

Studio Portrait of Men Drinking Beer

Date: 1915
Description: Studio portrait of three men smoking pipes and cigars and holding beer bottles in front of a painted backdrop. From left to right, Jacob Bowar, Herman Kals...
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Steinbacher's Saloon

Date: 1915
Description: Exterior view of the bar owned by Rudolph Steinbacher at the corner of 16th Street and St. Paul Avenue. A large sign for Schlitz beer is painted on the wa...
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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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Studio Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Family

Date: 1915
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk family. In the background is a painted backdrop. Names (sitting) David Bow Littlesoldier (Maw Jhay Mau Nee Kah). ...
Photograph

Portrait of Three Ho-Chunk Men and One Woman

Date: 1915
Description: Studio portrait of group of people posing in front of a painted backdrop. A Ho-Chunk man is sitting on the left wearing a suit, necktie, and hat, and is ho...
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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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Three Ho-Chunk Women with an Infant

Date: 1915
Description: Studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop. Lucy Thunderking Lowe Yellowbank (MaHiskaWinKah), sitting on the left, is holding her nephew David Ne...
Postcard

Studio Portrait of Three Women

Date: 1915
Description: Full-length studio portrait of three women in front of a painted backdrop. One woman is sitting, holding a book; the other two are standing on either side ...
Postcard

Telephone Linemen

Date: 1915
Description: Photographic postcard of an outdoor group portrait of a telephone line crew. The six men are wearing hats and work clothes, and five of the men are wearing...
Photograph

Group Portrait of Women with a Dressmaker's Dummy

Date: 1915
Description: Posed group of six women with a dressmaker's dummy.
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Men With Beer

Date: 1915
Description: Studio portrait of three men smoking pipes and cigars and holding beer bottles in front of a painted backdrop. From left to right, Jacob Bowar, Herman Kals...
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Young Men Drinking Beer

Date: 1915
Description: Studio triple portrait in front of a painted backdrop: young men with hats askew, drinking beer and smoking.
Postcard

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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Group Portrait of Sid's Family

Date: 1915
Description: Group portrait of Sid's family: Severt and his mother (?), with Sid in the center, and his younger sister Bernice on the woman's lap.
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Elkhorn Cornet Band

Date: 1915
Description: Outdoor group portrait of a band. The men are posing in their uniforms and are holding their instruments. A drum on the right has a sign that reads: "Elkho...
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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...
Postcard

Wausau Cardinals Basketball Team

Date: 1915
Description: Text on the basketball reads: "Wausau Cardinals '15." Five young men are sitting on small stools for a studio portrait. The man in the center is wearing sh...

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