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Railroad Crew with Handcar

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Description: Railroad workers posing with a handcar on railroad tracks.
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Group Under Tree with Guitarist

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Description: A group of seven women and three men, some standing, and some sitting on a bench and on the ground, gathered under a tree in front of two frame buildings. ...
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Portrait of Strikes A Tree and The Small One

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Description: Copy photograph of two elderly Ho-Chunk women posing sitting on the ground in front of a building with a lodge frame in the background. Identified as Strik...
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Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Group Posing Outdoors

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Description: Three Ho-Chunk men wearing hats and a Ho-Chunk woman wrapped in a shawl are posing outdoors sitting on a bench in front of a corrugated metal building.
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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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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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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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Deteriorated Wooden Buildings

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Description: Wooden buildings in ruin. Overgrown bushes and piles of dirt are in the foreground.
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Damaged Brick Building

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Description: View up hill towards a large brick building with a large hole blasted in the second-floor. A wood platform below is collapsed.
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Construction of a Building Foundation

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Description: Four men in the foreground are posing standing with shovels in a large hole in the ground. In the background behind a wall, men are working near cars along...
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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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Flooded River

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Description: Swollen river at flood time. Trees are across the river standing in the water. Buildings are on the far shoreline.
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Flooded River

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Description: View across river at flood stage towards buildings on the far shoreline.
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Men and Rocks by a River

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Description: Three men are standing among rocks on the shore of the river. Snow is on the ground, and in the background are buildings along a hill.
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Man and Two Women Sitting Outdoors

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Description: Group portrait of a man and two women posing sitting on a wooden box in a yard near the front of a board building.
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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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Men and Women Examining Debris

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Description: Men and women examining debris in a field, possibly caused by a tornado. A tree is on top of an automobile in the center. In the far distance are fields an...
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Children Playing on Fallen Tree

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Description: View across open field towards children standing on a downed tree near the racetrack. There are buildings, a fence and a pavilion behind the tree.

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