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Telephone Workers

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of men working on telephone lines from scaffolding attached to the pole in front of the telephone exchange building.
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Three Woman on Main Street

Date: 1895
Description: Three women (Jennie Parsons Kelly, left, and Lena Eisenback Post, center, and an unidentified woman on the right) on Main Street in front of Yep Ah Sing's ...
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Men Outside of American Express Company Office

Date: 09 1896
Description: Four unidentified men posing standing in front of office buildings. Sign in the window of the American Express Company Office shows a horse and advertises ...
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Woman Walking on Board Sidewalk

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Description: Woman wearing a large flower hat and holding an umbrella is walking on a board sidewalk of Main Street, passing the City Library. The brick office building...
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Jen Parsons Kelly on Sidewalk

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Description: A woman posing standing on a board sidewalk in front of a wooden building, possibly on the east side of South First Street.
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Five String Musicians

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Description: Five men playing string instruments while standing on a town sidewalk. They are identified from left to right as: unidentified man, Anton Hagen, Ole Strand...
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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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Men Posing Outside Local Businesses

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Description: Seventeen men and boys are posing in front of the storefronts on a sidewalk on the north side of Main Street, between First and Second Streets, including O...
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Family in front of Hans Kjorstad Residence

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Description: View of group posing on the lawn in front of a two-story frame house. Four men in the background on the left are standing near two teams of horses; three m...
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Billboards on Water Street

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Description: Billboards with advertising for the "Georgia Up-To-Date Minstrels" at the Opera House on Saturday, April 7. Bridge visible to the left. The J.J. McGillivra...
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Man Driving Advertising Cart on First Street

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Description: A "cart before the horse" rig advertising the "A.F. Werner, Bargains in Everything, Black River Falls, Wis.", with a man wearing a fake bushy beard and hol...
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Main Street, between Water and First Streets

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Description: Wagon piled high with chairs, with a man standing and driving a team of two horses. A man on the sidewalk is looking back at camera. There are other wagons...
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Cattle on Main Street

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Description: Men driving cattle down Main Street, and a surrey with a team of two horses on the right. Storefronts identified on the north side of Main Street include J...
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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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Woman on Board Sidewalk

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Description: Woman posing standing on a board sidewalk on the hill of Main Street.
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Woman on First Street

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Description: Woman posing standing on the west side of South First Street in front of the photographic studio of Charles J. Van Schaick. There is a sign on the building...
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Circus Performance on Main Street

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Description: Crowd watching a circus performance in the street, possibly centered on a gorilla named Johanna according to the banner in the background. There is an arch...
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Dry Goods Storefront on Main Street

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Description: View from street towards a young man wearing suit and a derby hat posing standing in the doorway of Jones and Marsh Dry Goods.
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Team of Horses with Winch

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Description: Elevated view of team of horses powering a winch for moving a house at the rear of the Jackson County Bank. Men are probably preparing the lot for the hous...

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