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Description: | Families huddled in a field in the Sugar Bushes, attempting to escape the Peshtigo Fire. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Log driving crew for the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company. Crew members are in the process of breaking a jam at the Big Eddy. One of the men is carrying a yo... |
Date: | 1949 |
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Description: | Interior view of Frank J. Hess and Sons barrel-making factory, 1952 Atwood Avenue at Schenck's Corners. Pictured l to r: Frank Jr., Edward, Joseph, Tony, a... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Brewery workers, posed in front of stacked beer barrels. Pictured (2nd row, far right) is Louis Schreiber (1861-1923) who immigrated to Wisconsin from Bava... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T... |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | Loggers at dinner in the woods north of Glen Flora. The man in the center is filing his saw. |
Date: | 1896 |
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Description: | Loggers posing on narrow-gauge railroad tracks with a railroad velocipede and cant hook near Saddle Mound, a large hill that dominates the local area in Ja... |
Date: | 1899 |
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Description: | Grandma Martha (Goetsch) Buelke posed in front of a barn with her favorite cow. She is holding a milking pail. |
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Description: | Two women are standing on the small porch outside an open kitchen door, near implements used for daily household tasks such as washing, scrubbing, sweeping... |
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Description: | L.E. Mercer, of Lenox Iowa, posed with honey-producing equipment. Mercer is wearing a full suit, bow tie, and hat. |
Date: | 1948 |
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Description: | John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigarette tax division, using a sledge hammer to smash illegal slot machines. |
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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... |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Studio portrait of a fisherman with his lure, spear, and catch. |
Date: | 03 26 1968 |
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Description: | Slightly elevated view of prison cooks preparing dinner for inmates. |
Date: | 1919 |
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Description: | Elevated interior view of the Boone Tire Factory. Men are lined up along a wall with open windows. They are each using a stand to hold a wheel while wrappi... |
Date: | 1959 |
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Description: | Women preparing food for an annual Norwegian church supper at the Trinity Lutheran Church. |
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Description: | Elevated view of lumber camp with loggers posing in front of a train loaded with logs. |
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Description: | Portrait of Henry Mathews, 1866-1941, an early African American resident, holding the tools of his trade in front of a painted backdrop. He was a stone mas... |
Date: | 1952 |
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Description: | Cheesemaker standing on ladder putting cheese on storage shelf, along with rows of other cheeses. |
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