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| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the Peshtigo Fire, showing people seeking refuge in the Peshtigo River. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of men unloading lumber off a raft. A man at the left is loading lumber onto a horse-drawn wagon, while a man in an apron is holding the horses... |
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| Description: | Color photograph of a fire crew battling small house fire during a training exercise. The men are using an International Scout 80 1965 fire truck. |
| Date: | 02 22 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers using a steam shovel to dig a "borrow pit" for the no. 2 mine. The shovel is loading soil onto a rail car on a narrow gauge railroad track. Benham ... |
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| Description: | A Chippewa (Ojibwa) family moving their disassembled wagon and grindstone from one village to another on two canoes somewhere in northern Wisconsin. This i... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Seated are Mrs. Guri Gaarden Thompson (mother), one of the Thompson twins, John Thompson (rear), Thosten Thompson (son) and Mr. Thosten Thompson (father). ... |
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| Description: | Norris' flat at Upper St. Mary's Lake, with men standing in front of the cabin. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Lathrop, the town post mistress, pushing her wheelbarrow down a long wooden dock at La Pointe. She is on her way to haul merchandise for her store. |
| Date: | 09 18 1948 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Theodore Statz and her 6-month old daughter Cindy in the yard of their basement apartment at 425 West Wilson Street. They are soon to be evicted becau... |
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| Description: | A river has overflown its banks and is flooding a road on a bridge. Some men are on the bridge are using sticks to move ice floes. Crowds of people are wa... |
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| Description: | Ice chunks floating on the water near houses. People are standing watching nearby. |
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| Description: | A street cleaning truck spraying water on a suburban street with houses in the background. The text on the driver's side door probably reads "US Dept. of A... |
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| Description: | A Ho-Chunk woman is walking across the Black River Bridge wearing a long shawl over her shoulders and carrying a bundle. Identified as Mrs. George Funmaker... |
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| Description: | View of Perrine's Ranch, located in the vicinity of Twin Falls. A man is crossing a stream filled with large rock boulders. The ranch is on the left side o... |
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| Description: | View of several steamboats docked. Boats in the foreground are the "Lavelle Young" and "Isabelle" (text "Isabelle" partially obscured). Boat in the backgro... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a number of people unloading goods from boats arriving at a waterfront marketplace. Huts and various other buildings are visible on the hi... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of men unloading lumber off a raft. A man at the left loads lumber onto a horse-drawn wagon while a man in an apron holds the horses. There is ... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Three Algerian children standing together near their home. Two of them are holding hands. Behind them is a well, and piles of boxes in an alcove. Beside th... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow towards a group of Russian men, women, children, and American soldiers at a water station. Behind the sled on the left is a dog, and horse... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Three boys and a girl stand behind a wood trough, hewn from a log. The boys wear bib overalls. There is a two-story house and an outbuilding in the backgro... |
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