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Gesell Family Burlesque

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Description: The Gesell family in costume with broom, sword, and other props for a humorous picture. Family members identified as follows: Gerhard Jr. (drinking from pi...
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Female Curling Team

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Description: A female curling team poses with their brooms and stones for a portrait.
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Family in Yard of Large House

Date: 1898
Description: View across yard towards a man sitting in a chair, with two woman standing on the left and right. The two women are wearing black dresses with white bows t...
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Consecration of Bishop Weller as Bishop Coadjutor

Date: 11 08 1900
Description: Consecration of Bishop Weller as Bishop Coadjutor, Diocese of Fund du Lac. Three Bishops seated, l to r: Bishop Nicholson of Milwaukee; Bishop Grafton of F...
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Picking Cherries

Date: 07 15 1919
Description: The photographer's son Fedy (Ferdinand Leonard Hotz), in hat, and daughters pick cherries at the family orchard. Two of his daughters are standing on orcha...
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Missile Replacement

Date: 1986
Description: Three people standing in a field watching a missile replacement (large trailer lifted at an angle behind a barbed wire fence) at an Mx installation. Near t...
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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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Quarry Workers

Date: 1878
Description: Stereograph of a bearded man with vest and suit posing on a narrow gauge railroad at the granite works in Montello. Workmen are posing around him. Most of ...
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Telephone Linemen

Date: 1928
Description: Group portrait of four telephone linemen standing together, three of them wearing pole climbing spikes (or spurs). The man leaning on the pole is Carl Pete...
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Ojibwa Man

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Description: Caption on reverse reads: "An old Chippewa Indian meditates as he puffs a new-fangled pipe of peace." He is seated on a hillock of grass with a pole in one...
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River Improvement

Date: 06 1936
Description: Elevated view of a man, on the left, approaching three youths working on the Thunder River. One of the youths is holding a bucket while the others, standin...
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Picnic on Shore of Flambeau River

Date: 1940
Description: A man, sitting on a wooden bench, and a woman, sitting on the ground, are enjoying a picnic on the shore of the Flambeau River. There is an open plaid meta...
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Three Sisters with the "H" They Made

Date: 1906
Description: Three wood workers are showing the "H" which they made out of birch logs. From left to right: Lucy Holt, Minnie May Rumsey and possibly Juliet Rumsey Stroh...
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Roadside Picnic

Date: 1924
Description: Margaret Bouer Brumder, far right, is sitting on a car seat cushion set on the ground. She is watching her children Herbert Edmund Brumder, reclining on a ...
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Picnic

Date: 1926
Description: Members of the extended Brumder family are gathered around a long picnic table set up on a tennis court. Built on George and Henriette Brumder's summer est...
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Birthday Party

Date: 1938
Description: Members of the extended Brumder family have gathered in the dining room of the Herbert P. Brumder summer home at Pine Lake. The table is set for a meal and...
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Grant Stroh with a String of Fish

Date: 08 1931
Description: Standing on a sandy beach on the Island at Archibald Lake, Grant Stroh is holding up a string of fish. To the left of Stroh, a young woman, possibly his da...
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In the Barn

Date: 1910
Description: Eight young men and women posing in a barn. They include Will von der Sump, far left, and his brother Fred, second from right. A dog in front of Fred moved...
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Family Group

Date: 1905
Description: Hattie von der Sump, sitting at left, and her brother Fred, standing, posing with Mrs. Wallace and an unidentified toddler, who is sitting on the ground. T...
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Barn Raising

Date: 1905
Description: A crowd of men, women and children are posing on the beams and floor of a new barn on the Frank von der Sump farm. The barn has a stone foundation. A porti...

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