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Rose Garden Gazebo

Date: 1917
Description: Log-constructed gazebo and person on bridge in rose garden.
Photograph

Children at Work and Play in Schoolyard

Date: 1917
Description: Boys working in a garden while smaller children dance in a circle on the grounds of Middlefield No. 2 Consolidated School in Ostego County. Teachers are lo...
Photograph

Cemetery in France

Date: 1917
Description: A backdrop of farmland frames small white crosses arranged in a cemetery in France after World War I.
Photograph

House on Iota Court

Date: 1917
Description: View looking uphill towards the house at 150 Iota Court, built in 1911-1912 from local sandstone for the Chi Psi fraternity.
Photograph

Harvester-Thresher

Date: 1917
Description: A farmer is using a large team of mules and horses to pull a harvester-thresher (combine) through a field.
Photograph

Group on Basswood Island

Date: 1917
Description: Group of people sitting on sandstone on Basswood Island, Apostle Islands. People from l. to r.: E.H., Florence Baker, Dot Ross, Louise Baker, Harie Ross, a...
Photograph

Boat Landing at Hermit Island

Date: 1917
Description: Group of people on boat "Zenya" at Hermit Island boat landing. L. to r. in back: Captain Angus; Mrs. Stickae; Florence Baker; Mrs. Baker; Elizabeth Abern...
Photograph

Outing on "Gee Whiz"

Date: 1917
Description: Ladies on the "Gee Whiz" using umbrellas as sun protection.
Photograph

Group on Basswood Island Dock

Date: 1917
Description: Group of men and women standing on Basswood Island Dock. Bill Baker, Elizabeth Hull, Florence Baker, Dorothy Stickney Ross, Louise Baker, Hamilton N. Ross ...
Photograph

Sulloway Mills

Date: 1917
Description: Composite of views, including an elevated view of Sulloway Mills, and insets captioned "50 Years Ago" and "New Office Building."
Photograph

Sod House

Date: 1917
Description: Original caption reads: "Union Pacific Special Trip: Oldest sod house in Platte Valley, 1886, H.W. Roberts."
Postcard

Pier Landing, From Tourist Campsite, Devil's Lake State Park

Date: 1917
Description: Colorized postcard of the pier landing as seen from the tourist camp site in Devil's Lake State Park. People are strolling on the dock, a boat is docked, w...
Photograph

World War I Ambulance Company

Date: 1917
Description: Panoramic group portrait of the Wisconsin National Guard Ambulance Company No. 1 at Camp Douglas, together with its ambulances and motorcycles with sidecar...
Book or Pamphlet

Remy Tractor Division Advertisement

Date: 1917
Description: Front cover of a brochure produced by the Remy Electric Company's Tractor Equipment Division advertising "An Easier Day's Work" through the use of farm mac...
Book or Pamphlet

Yuba Ball Tread Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1917
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the Model 12-20 Yuba ball tread tractor featuring a photograph of two men using a tractor and plow in a farm field. Tr...
Postcard

Easter Bluff and Railroad Tracks

Date: 1917
Description: Colorized postcard of Easter Bluff, with many trees. In the foreground two sets of railroad tracks can be seen. A post and wire fence runs along the edge o...
Map or Atlas

Map of Ashland County, Wisconsin

Date: 1917
Description: This 1917 map of Ashland County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range system, towns, sections, cities and villages, the Bad River Indian Reservation, ra...
Map or Atlas

Rust-Owen Lumber Company Land Department : Drummond, Wisconsin

Date: 1917
Description: This map, which highlights the land for sale by the Rust-Owen Lumber Company in the towns of Drummond, Cable and Grandview, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, sho...
Map or Atlas

Bayfield County, Wisconsin

Date: 1917
Description: This 1917 map of Bayfield County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range system, towns, sections, cities and villages, railroads, wagon roads, and lakes a...
Map or Atlas

Map of Barron and Parts of Dunn, Chippewa, Washburn & Sawyer Counties, State of Wisconsin, Showing the Lands of the Knapp, Stout & Co. Company, of Menomonie, Dunn County Wis.

Date: 1917
Description: Map of Barron and parts of Dunn, Chippewa, Washburn & Sawyer counties, State of Wisconsin, showing the lands of the Knapp, Stout & Co. Company, of Menomoni...

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