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Driving Hogs Through Town

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Description: Bill Payne driving a herd of large hogs through town on Main Street, possibly on the way to Adam Best's Butcher's Shop. Storefronts identified, from left t...
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Mose Bone Sample Room

Date: 1900
Description: Men at the Mose Bone Sample Room. Two men are sitting on chairs on the porch in front. A male dwarf is walking on the board sidewalk in front of the saloon...
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Grocery Store on Main Street

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Description: O.C. O'Hearn Grocery Store, Main Street, with the front window filled with apples, and a man standing in the doorway. Another man is standing on the sidewa...
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Hat Shop Window Display

Date: 1896
Description: The front window display of a Black River Falls hat shop. Rows of cloth caps, with linen, and straw hats are heaped on the showcase floor. A mannequin is ...
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Main Street Intersection

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Description: Two boys walking on board sidewalk of First Street away from Main Street. In the right foreground is a display case of Van Schaick photographs, in front of...
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Man and Woman on Sidewalk

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Description: View from sidewalk of a horse-drawn buggy parked along the side of Main Street, looking southeast at First Street. An immigrant couple, possibly Norwegian,...
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Dry Goods Store

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Description: Interior of a store with a display case of cigars and shelves of books. Negative was possibly double exposed, with windows and plant in the upper center.
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Drug Store Interior

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Description: Interior of a drugstore. Two men and one woman behind the counter. Persons identified, from left to right, Mrs. Roddy, Ben Warner, and an unidentified man.
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Lambert Taxidermy

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Description: Interior of a taxidermy shop with stuffed animals, possibly the shop of a Mr. Lambert.
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City Bakery

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Description: Decorated cake for the grand opening of the City Bakery.
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Circus Wagon in Parade

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Description: Slightly elevated view over sidewalk towards eight horses drawing a circus wagon in parade. The parade is coming from the circus ground at the white pine g...
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Circus Wagon in Parade

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Description: Slightly elevated view of men driving a circus calliope for a parade in town. A calliope is a musical instrument that produces sound by sending steam throu...
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Doilies for Sale in Store

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Description: Display of doilies for sale in a store window.
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General Store Interior

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Description: Interior of a general store displaying various merchandise in glass cases, shelves and counters.
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Mr. Meinholtz in his Store

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Description: Mr. Meinholtz and a woman, probably his wife or daughter, posing at the counter inside the Meinholtz Store. She is holding a piece of fabric, and he is hol...
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Annie Massey and Hester Decorah Lowery on a Street in Town

Date: 1915
Description: Annie Massey (KeKoRaSinchKah), left, and Hester Decorah Lowery (NoGinWinKah). Hester lived to be well over one hundred years old.
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Ho-Chunk Family Sitting near Board Sidewalk

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Description: A Ho-Chunk man, woman, and child are sitting on steps in front of a storefront on a board sidewalk. Along the sidewalk in front of windows are two painting...
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Ho-Chunk Women and Children in front of Storefront

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Description: Three Ho-Chunk women and two children are standing in front of a storefront. The Ho-Chunk women and girl are all wearing shawls wrapped around their heads ...
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Ho-Chunk Women and Men in Front of Werner Drugstore on Main Street

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Description: View from street of two Ho-Chunk women and a Ho-Chunk man standing in the doorway of the Werner Drugstore on the north side of Main Street between First an...
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Store Interior

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Description: The interior of a store, with a glass counter and shelves full of stacked canned goods. On top of the shelves on the right is a display advertising: "P and...

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