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Filter: Year of 1910-1919
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Dilapidated Cedar Bark Lodge on Hermit Island, possibly during a period of renovation. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Gwinnette Court two-room tenement houses, which were inhabited by twelve families. "Note the filthy condition of the front yard." These were eliminated by ... |
| Date: | 05 15 1918 |
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| Description: | Vacant city lot cluttered with litter and advertising billboards for Premium Ham and Bacon and Wool Soap. The department likely used the photograph to show... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An old, dilapidated mining building surrounded by a field. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the remnants of the Minnesota Point Lighthouse. Faint caption at bottom reads: "Lighthouse". |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Fort Crawford. Caption reads: "Ruins of hospital, old Fort Crawford, Prairie du Chien, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Fort Crawford ruins. Caption reads: "Ruins of Old Fort Crawford, Prairie-du-Chien, Wis." |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Pile of manure outside the door of a crudely built farm building. |
| Date: | 10 30 1917 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of an abandoned district school building with a small shed or outhouse standing nearby. |
| Date: | 03 22 1912 |
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| Description: | Two young girls standing with their arms around each other in the debris-strewn yard of a run-down home. The original caption identifies the location as th... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View from cobblestone street of a woman wearing a skirt and head scarf moving a barrel of discarded vegetables in an alley. Probably taken near an outdoor ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Interior view down a hallway at the Courtland Hotel. The walls are covered with peeling wallpaper and the floor is made of patterned tile. The hotel was us... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the slave quarters at West Point Plantation. Copyright 1910 by Fleming & Bryant, Brunswick, GA. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Farm structure with wood boards askew on the outer walls, and loose shingles on the roof. Underneath an open section is a hand-pump on a platform. Ducks ar... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of "The Ruins." A brick hotel (possibly the MLAKAR HOTEL) is behind and to the right of the old foundation. Various signs are pasted on ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a three-quarter view of the exterior of an abandoned church. There are broken shutters in the belfry and a broken window in front.... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Unhealthy cow in weed-grown farmyard with dilapidated buildings. Image part of the International Harvester Co. Educational Extension Project. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | The ruins of a wooden counter and shelves in the abandoned Mac Laren's Hudson's Bay Company Store near Sturgeon lake. A portion of the roof is missing. |
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