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Ox Carts with Furs

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Description: A view showing a line of ox carts loaded with furs leaving the Hudson Bay Company's Post to make the 16 mile trip to avoid the rapids on Slave River. Housi...
Manuscript

Trappers Leaving Hunting Grounds

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Description: Drawing of trappers on leaving their hunting grounds.
Photograph

Taxidermy Workshop and Storeroom

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Description: Two photographs showing the workshop and storeroom of a taxidermy shop. The top image is of the workshop which is full of preserved animal bodies and skin...
Photograph

Wagon Loaded with Animal Hides

Date: 1910
Description: Panoramic view of two men riding on top of a horse-drawn wagon loaded with animal hides. They are driving on a street in a small town near two four-story f...
Photograph

Successful Bird Hunt

Date: 1960
Description: A man holds a wood stretcher/fleshing beam near his game.
Photograph

Woman Posing with Furs

Date: 1938
Description: A woman is seated in front of silver fox pelts hanging from pegs at the Fromm Brothers Fur and Ginseng Farm sale. On the right is a poster of an advertisem...
Postcard

Lemmer Fox and Fur Co.

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Description: View of a man standing in a fenced-in area feeding a fox. Caption reads: "Lemmer Fox and Fur Co., Marathon, Wis. U.S.A."

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