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Planting Trout

Date: 04 26 1936
Description: Planting trout in Waupaca County. Left to right on bank: S.A. LaVoilette, Joe Samz, Lloyd Pinkawski, Edwin Kargewski, W.M. Geiger, G. Moder, Billy LaVoilet...
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Clifford Thompson

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Description: Portrait of Clifford Thompson, at one time the tallest man in America, in a jacket and top hat posing next to a chair.
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War Departmental Trial

Date: 1918
Description: Captain Alexander E. Williams of the War Department testing the experimental truck that the Four Wheel Drive Company hoped to manufacture for the army. In ...
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Logging in the Blue Snow

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Description: Winter view with men logging on the Little Wolf River during the winter of the "blue snow". Logs are being decked on the ice and along the shore. Horse te...
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Snagging Sturgeon from Bridge

Date: 1870
Description: A large group of men are snagging sturgeon from a bridge over the Wolf River. A sturgeon is hanging from a line. More men are sitting on a bridge support, ...
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Women on Stage

Date: 1916
Description: Seven women on stage, apparently in a scene from an amateur theatrical performance, wearing conventional street clothes.
Postcard

Soo Line Depot

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Description: View towards the front of Locomotive #2039 stopped at the Fremont Depot. A conductor is walking alongside the train on the right. Caption reads: "Soo Line ...
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Fishing on Chain of Lakes

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Description: View from shoreline of three men sitting on a small motorboat with their fishing rods on Waupaca Chain O'Lakes. Other boats are on the lake in the distance...
Postcard

Junior Booster Club

Date: 1908
Description: Group portrait of nine young men, in coats and hats, standing together on a sidewalk in front of the entrance to a building. Caption reads: "Junior Booster...
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New London Firetruck and Firefighters

Date: 1918
Description: Group portrait of the New London Fire Department posing around their fire engine. They are wearing firefighting gear, coats, boots, helmets and tools in th...
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Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Dittberner

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Description: A man and a woman are standing outside between a fence and a building. The man is kneeling and using a shovel, and the woman is standing and watching him. ...
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Bicyclists Near New London

Date: 1900
Description: Group cyanotype portrait of six women posing with their bicycles in front of some trees. Caption reads: "Bicycle girls in a run near New London (?) about 1...

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