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Trail Through Pines

Date: 1905
Description: Trail through the pines between Chippewa Falls and Long Lake, Chippewa County.
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Hans Holtan Family

Date: 1879
Description: This is said to be the family of Hans Holtan (a.k.a. Austinson) posed in the yard before a frame house that has carpenter's lace on porch, two separate doo...
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Visitors to the Iron Ridge Mine

Date: 1900
Description: Visitors, dressed in their Sunday best, contrast with the rough garb of the miners. Left to right, miners were: Charles Kanass, Robert "Beaver" Smith (hold...
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Workers Hauling Sisal Leaves

Date: 1910
Description: Workers hauling sisal leaves with rail carts and burros to a decortication mill in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. The mill was likely part of Internation...
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Boy with Dog Pulling Wagon

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Description: Three small children with a wagon drawn by a dog.
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Gothic Revival Farm House

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Description: A Gothic Revival farmhouse with barge board trim behind a fence. Adjacent to the house are farm buildings, one which has a windmill mounted upon it. Men on...
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Family with Carriage in Yard

Date: 1876
Description: A family stands around a carriage in the yard of a two-story frame house with bay window and multiple additions. Vines grow on the side of the front porch ...
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Couples on Porch

Date: 1869
Description: View across yard towards two couples on the porch of a frame house, with two girls sitting on the side of the house on the right. Side windows of the house...
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Group with Horses near House

Date: 1873
Description: Family in yard with man on left on rig, man on right side with reaper and other farm implements. Four women are sitting in chairs in the center, and the wo...
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D.W. Bronson and Family

Date: 1873
Description: Probably D.W. Bronson and family. A mounting block cut from a tree stump is in left foreground with carriage and saddle height steps. The family poses in f...
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Family in Yard with Carriage

Date: 1878
Description: Family in yard with carriage with large stone house behind that has shutters closed. The house was built in 1845. Harmon J. Hill was the first supervisor o...
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Lost Canyon

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Description: Elevated view of a cart of tourists in Lost Canyon.
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Group in Surrey

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Description: Three women, one holding a bottle, and a man in a three bench surrey and two-horse team.
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Boy Driving a Goat Cart

Date: 1900
Description: Boy, identified as Joe, driving a goat pulling a cart.
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Loading Sisal Leaves

Date: 1949
Description: Worker loads sisal leaves onto a small train car at an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Loading leaves on the train car...
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Workers Laying Tracks on Sisal Plantation

Date: 1949
Description: Slightly elevated view of workers laying railroad tracks in a field of sisal on an International Harvester plantation in Cuba.
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Harvesting Sisal Leaves

Date: 1949
Description: Worker loading bundles of sisal leaves onto a rail or tram car on an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Leaves stacked at...
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Harvesting Sisal Leaves

Date: 1949
Description: Worker loading stacks of bundled sisal leaves on a rail or tram car on an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Caption on photograph reads: "Train l...
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P&H 5-Ton Monorail Hoist Loading Lumber onto Barge

Date: 1913
Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger 5-ton monorail hoist with a lumber handling unit, possibly in Pensacola, Florida. The monorail track extends over the dock to permi...
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Ho-Chunk Man Performing Handstand

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Description: Ho-Chunk man performing a handstand in front of two Ho-Chunk men standing on the left. There is a child sitting in one of several horses horse-drawn wagons...

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