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Barn Raising

Date: 1900
Description: Group portrait of a large group of workers, along with women, children, and dogs, posing on the frame of the barn they are building.
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Men Delivering Milk to Creamery

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Description: Men bringing cans of milk to a building, probably a creamery by a river.
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Men at Creamery

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Description: Men bringing cans of milk to a building, probably a creamery by a river.
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Man at Creamery

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Description: Man with cans of milk at a building, probably a creamery.
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Man Packing Butter in Creamery

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Description: Man packing butter in a creamery.
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People Posing in front of Wooden Building

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Description: Group portrait of five men, and a woman holding a baby, standing in front of a large, two-story wooden building, possibly a farm implement or feed store. A...
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Lumber Operation

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Description: View from hill of lumber operation, with stacks of timber and a sawmill in operation, probably McKenna in eastern Jackson County.
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Goodyear Mill

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Description: Lumberyard with railroad lines and a sawmill, probably the Goodyear Mill, three miles south of Saddle, or a mill located in McKenna.
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McKenna Mill

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Description: Lumberyard full of logs and a sawmill in the distance, probably McKenna in eastern Jackson County.
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Goodyear Mill

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Description: Elevated view of a large group of men posing standing in front of a sawmill, probably the Goodyear Mill, three miles south of Saddle, or a mill located in ...
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McKenna Mill

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Description: Elevated view of a large group of men, children and horses posed standing in front of a sawmill, probably a mill located in McKenna.
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Group in Front of Buildings

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Description: View from road of several men, a woman, girl and young boys posed in front of buildings in a lumber town, probably McKenna. There are two blurred images in...
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Men Posed by Saw

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Description: Men posed using a steam-powered open-air saw, probably using a steam tractor for power.
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Thompson Foundry and Machine Shop

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Description: Large group of men posing standing by and sitting on farm machinery, including a thresher and steam tractors. Probably at the Thompson Foundry and Machine ...
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Halcyon Brick Works

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Description: View across field towards tall chimneys, wooden buildings, and a large kiln. Identified as the Halcyon Brick Works, approximately halfway between Black Riv...
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Stump Pulling

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Description: View across field towards a group of four men standing with a stump-pulling rig. Three horses on the left are pulling the tree stump.
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Threshing in a Field

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Description: View across field towards a group of men working with threshing machinery.
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Stump Pulling

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Description: View of four men in a clearing. Two men and a dog are standing next to a team of two horses hitched to stump pulling machinery. On the right, two men are s...
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Railroad Coal Shed

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Description: View across field towards a long building in the distance by an open field. Identified as the railroad coal shed in Millston.
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Sheppard's Cut-Off Signal Tower

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Description: View across railroad tracks towards a railroad signal tower. Location identified as the signal tower for the Sheppard's cut-off south of Black River Falls.

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