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People Posing Around Farm Machinery

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Description: People posing in field, with a barn in the background among trees. In the center a man, three women and a boy are standing in front of a wire fence. Behind...
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Men Operating Farm Machinery

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Description: Elevated view of men and boys operating a steam tractor used for belt-driven threshing machinery. Farm buildings are on the right, and one has a thatched r...
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Group Portrait of People Posing Between Buildings

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Description: Large group of women and young girls, and one man, posing between outdoors between two buildings. In the foreground is a barrel and chairs.
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Men Around a Sawmill

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Description: View across open ground towards men posing sitting and standing in horse-drawn wagons in front of a sawmill.
Postcard

Flood Scene

Date: 1911
Description: Photographic postcard view of a street scene. Groups of people are gathered along the sidewalks near storefronts. A building on the left has a painted sign...
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Group of People Next to House

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Description: Two women, two boys, two girls, and a small girl are posing standing at the corner of a frame house. A woman is standing next to a column of the porch, and...
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Copy Photograph; Exterior View; Unidentified Residence

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Description: Copy photograph of an exterior view of a wooden house with a European American man and European American woman posing sitting in the yard.
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W.T. Murray Residence; Main and Melrose Streets

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Description: View of a young girl playing in the leaves in the yard of a two-story wooden house. A man and woman and a dog stand watching in the background on the far l...
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Onalaska Pickle Factory

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Description: Outdoor view across yard towards several men inside a long building with open sides showing a long line of barrels. In the background is a wagon next to s...
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Onalaska Pickle Factory; Interior

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Description: Indoor view of a wooden building with two levels. There is a set of wooden stairs leading up to the next level. Several barrels are near the base of the st...
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Moe Hardware Store; Exterior

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Description: View across unpaved road towards a two-story building, with three men posing standing on the walkway. Identified as Moe Hardware, built in 1912 on the nort...
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Jackson County Bank

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Description: View from street towards a man posing sitting high up on a ladder set up on the sidewalk in front of the Jackson County Bank on the southwest corner of Mai...
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Man with Pig Swill Cart

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a man posing standing. He is holding a cart made of a barrel with two large metal wheels. Identified as probably a pig swill cart. A do...
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Two Men on a Tractor

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Description: View of two men posing standing on a tractor and wagon in a field.
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Family and Their Log Home

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Description: Group portrait of a man, girl, and a woman holding a broom, standing in front of a log house, surrounded by snow-covered ground. There is another person st...
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Leashed Dog

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Description: View towards a dog sitting at the end of a leash attached to the porch roof of a wooden building. Under the porch is a man, whose face is obscured by a col...
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The Coon King

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Description: Portrait of a man sitting indoors in a chair with his eyes closed. A bottle is resting on his shoulder, and a sign has been placed on his lap that reads: "...
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Dog Tied to Building

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Description: View towards a dog in a yard hitched with a chain to the second-story wooden landing of a building. Another building is behind a fence in the background.
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Two Outdoor Group Portraits of European Americans

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Description: Left side: Group portrait of two men posing sitting on a box and barrel. Two boys are posing inside the barrel, and one boy is posing inside the box. Right...
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Unidentified Contraption with Wheels

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Description: Indoor view of a contraption made of wood, with wood and metal wheels.

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