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Barn Raising

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Description: Barn raising. The foundation is constructed from local fieldstone or "pudding stone," found in the nearby fields. A large group of men are is posing holdin...
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Iron Works

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Description: Elevated view of York Iron works. Large group of men posing in yard. The boardinghouse is on a hill in the far background. Early iron was mined at Mayville...
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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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Intersection of Main and First Streets

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Description: Man on a ladder painting around a window of the Jackson County Bank. Arch over the intersection partially visible on the right side, as are several people ...
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Brickmaking Plant

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Description: Brick plant, possibly the one at Haley, six to seven miles up the river from Black River Falls. May also be a sawmill, as piles of lumber are in the foregr...
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Two Men Boxing

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Description: Two men take a boxing pose outside of a cabin near a woodpile. In addition, there are several onlookers.
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Hand-Pump on Barrel

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Description: Still-life of a hand-pump, manufactured by Barber and Colman, Rockford, Illinois, attached to the top of a barrel near the side of a building.
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Lumberyard with Town in Background

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Description: A view of the lumberyard with the town in the background.
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Interior of a Factory

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Description: Interior of a factory with two blurred men on the right, and men in the background on the left.
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View down Water Street

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Description: View down Water Street, with billboards advertising for the "Georgia Up-To-Date Minstrels" at the Opera House on Saturday, April 7. There is also a bridge ...
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Four Painters Posing Outdoors

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Description: A portrait of four men posing standing in two pairs in front of a building. Each pair of men have their arms around each others shoulders, and all the men ...
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Main Street

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Description: View across street of four men posing in front of storefronts on Main Street, including M.A. Batcheller, a barber shop, and clothiers under the offices of ...
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Group of Men Posed with Railroad Train

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Description: View from steep bank of a large group of men posed standing with shovels by a railroad train with flat cars covered with sand or dirt. Man of the men are h...
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Men Posed Outdoors in front of a Wooden Building

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Description: Two men posed standing outside a wooden building with a tall smokestack, probably a power plant for a sawmill. Two men are posed sitting in two wagons, eac...
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City Water Pumping Station at Town Creek

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Description: Three men posed standing on the porch of a small brick building with a tall smokestack, probably the City Water Pumping Station at Town Creek, surrounded b...
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Construction of Railroad

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Description: Group of men at the construction of a railroad branch line among piles of stones. Railroad ties placed on the ground are visible on the platform in the bac...
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Group of Men near Two Wooden Buildings

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Description: Group of men and a young girl posed standing and in wagons outside two large wooden buildings, possibly a sawmill. There is a row of barrels along the top ...
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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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