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Man with Racehorse

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Description: Man posing in a sulky, probably Eugene Greenlee, the Superintendent of Water Works, possibly pulled by a race horse. Note the solid tires. When pneumatic t...
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Joe Bear Heart near Table of Drying Corn

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Description: Lantern slide of a Ho-Chunk man wearing a hat posing standing behind a table loaded with kernels of corn on a cloth drying by a wooden building. The man is...
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Ho-Chunk Woman and Three Children in Town

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Description: Ho-Chunk woman, and three Ho-Chunk children wearing winter clothes, standing on a board sidewalk in town, probably Black River Falls. Two of the children a...
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York Iron Works

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Description: York Iron Works, with a group of men posed standing in front of the construction of the blast furnace.
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House in Black River Falls

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Description: View across road of a man and woman posed standing in the fenced yard of a house in town, which is to the right of a storefront of the I.O.O.F. (Internatio...
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Two Women Posed Outdoors

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Description: Two women wearing long dresses are posed standing with their hands on their hips in a field in front of a tree. There is a dog near the tree, and part of a...
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Three Men and Horse-Drawn Buggy in Front of Building

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Description: Two men are posing sitting in a wagon pulled by a team of two horses. One of the men is holding the reins, and the other man is holding tools. Behind them ...
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Stallion at Jackson County Fairgrounds

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Description: Man displaying a stallion near a wooden fence and in front of several buggies and a boy standing on the left, probably at the Jackson County Fairgrounds. I...
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Men and Wagon

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Description: Group of people posing with a wagon from which several dead prairie-chickens are hanging. One man is sitting in the wagon with a dog. Seven men are standin...
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Boy Feeding a Colt

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Description: Boy standing on a roadside feeding a colt from his hand. On the left are buildings and a fence. In the background on the other side of the road are trees i...
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Two Boys and Dog

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Description: Two boys wearing hats are posing standing in a field by a tree with a dog. On the far right is a building.
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Scene at Country Fair

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Description: Elevated view of the scene at the country fair. In the foreground a crowd is gathered near a pavilion near the racetrack. In the background on the right is...
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Group Portrait of Men in the Woods

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Description: Large group of men posing standing among other men on horseback in front of tents in the woods. The horses are wearing yokes. There appears to be a wood st...
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Exterior View of Creamery

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Description: Exterior view of a wooden creamery building, with men and horse-drawn wagons transporting milk cans.
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Boy on a Pony

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Description: Boy sitting on a pony on a saddle possibly made of cloth.
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Virgil Taylor and Three Men

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Description: Indoor group portrait of four European American men posing sitting at a table and eating a meal in a wooden building with exposed walls and ceiling. The ma...
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Elevated Street View

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Description: Elevated view of town. The house near the center is identified as probably the residence of Dr. H.B. Cole, later Dr. Baxter, on the northeast corner of Har...
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Building on the Corner of First and Fillmore

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Description: View across unpaved street towards a group of men and women, probably Native Americans, posing sitting and standing in front of Building #88 on the northea...
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C.L. Thomas Delivery Wagon

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Description: Outdoor view of a European American man posing sitting on the back of a horse-drawn delivery wagon marked "C. L. Thomas, Orders taken and delivered," pulle...
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Draft Horse at the Merchant's Hotel

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Description: Outdoor view of a large draft horse being displayed by a man in the street in front of a group of men and the Merchant's Hotel located at Harrison and Firs...

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