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Cassville Brewery

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of the brewery dwarfed by the overhead bluffs. The brewery was built by William Schmitz. George Scheibl ran the brewery from 1899 until his d...
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Aerial View of Town and Mississippi River

Date: 1900
Description: Aerial view of town. The Mississippi River and far shoreline is in the background. The Furnace Branch creek runs through the town in the foreground.
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Park Hotel

Date: 1900
Description: A view of the Park Hotel in winter. A man on the left is pulling a sled piled with firewood.
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Group of Men and Boys Threshing

Date: 1900
Description: Group of men and boys threshing. They are using a tractor for a belt-driven threshing machine, and on the left two horses pull a wagon with large barrels.
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Excelsior Public School

Date: 1909
Description: View across road of school children and a man and a woman standing in front of the two-story public school. There is a bell tower above the entrance. A num...
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Farm Yard with Windmill

Date: 1900
Description: Three people stand in the farm yard. The man on the right is feeding chickens, a woman in the center stands holding an apron. The man on the left is carryi...
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Public School

Date: 1909
Description: Exterior view of the public school from unpaved road. The building is a two-story wood frame building with a flat roof and bell tower with a flag pole on t...
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Alexander Krueger Standing in a Field of Pine Cord

Date: 05 1902
Description: Alexander Krueger standing in a field with stacks of pine cord piled all around him. Branches from the pines litter the ground. Trees line the perimeter of...
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Henry Miller Family

Date: 05 1902
Description: Henry Miller with his wife, three children, and sister-in-law, Lena Jaeger, chopping wood. Henry is sawing a log, while a woman is cutting wood with an axe...
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Lucy A. Kaufmann

Date: 1905
Description: Lucy Kaufmann poses in an open, wooded area holding a hoe. She is wearing a tattered hat; her skirt and blouse are torn. There are two sheds and woodpiles ...
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Holt Children and Others Carrying Wood

Date: 08 1905
Description: A group portrait of children carrying newly split wood in their arms. Alfred Holt, wearing glasses, is sitting on a pile of wood in a small wagon. Donald H...
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Will's Saw Outfit

Date: 1905
Description: Will von der Sump, second from left, is watching as two men guide a log into the circular saw blade of a portable sawmill. A steam engine at left powers th...
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Browning School

Date: 12 15 1904
Description: Children of a range of ages are standing with their teacher in front of the Browning School. The children are well-dressed in winter clothes. The school is...
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Cutting Fire Wood

Date: 1905
Description: Six men posing in front of a portable steam driven circular saw on the Von der Sump farm. A portion of the saw blade is visible between two men in the cent...
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Two Woodcutters

Date: 1907
Description: Two young men are posing under a tree in front of neatly piled stacks of fuelwood, and a tall pile of fuelwood on the right. The man on the left is sitting...
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Street in Big Falls

Date: 1900
Description: View across unpaved street toward several buildings, and a horse-drawn buggy near a fence. The building on the left has an awning with the sign "[?]obosel ...

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