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Visitors to the Iron Ridge Mine

Date: 1900
Description: Visitors, dressed in their Sunday best, contrast with the rough garb of the miners. Left to right, miners were: Charles Kanass, Robert "Beaver" Smith (hold...
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Sitting on the Porch

Date: 1920
Description: A woman and a child sit on a railing and look out from the porch of their house. A man is in the background approaching from a car parked in the street.
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E.W. "Gramps" Brandel

Date: 1923
Description: E.W. Brandel, standing in a road. Known as Gramps by Mary Brandel, he is posing holding a bag, a bundle of sticks on his back, and a long stick over his sh...
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Mary Brandel and her Pony

Date: 1924
Description: Mary Brandel poses in riding clothes with her pony. Behind them is a road, with a fence and field.
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Four Men in Car

Date: 1925
Description: Four young men pose together in a car. They are parked on a drive near small outbuildings.
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Women on a Railroad Train Car

Date: 1926
Description: View looking up at two women in fashionable clothing and hats posing at the top of a railroad train car. One of the woman is standing on a ladder looking d...
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IH Dealer Awards Scrap Drive Button to Boy

Date: 1942
Description: International Harvester dealer Albert Karpernich(?), Jr. pins a "MacArthur Week" button on a boy scrap collector. According to the original caption, Karper...
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Snow Storm

Date: 01 26 1978
Description: Winter scene with young woman on a snowmobile in downtown Theresa, Wisconsin. "Kathy Thompson, daughter of Arty Thompson, rides a snowmobile during the he...
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Ed Radke

Date: 02 23 1978
Description: "Ed Radke, who celebrated his 91st birthday on Feb. 5, routinely walks downtown from his home on the north end of the village. Ed, who needs no eyeglasses,...
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Harvey Bogenschneider Service Station

Date: 02 09 1978
Description: "Harvey Bogenschneider Service Station. Two days before the impending auction, Bob, Harvey, & Dennis Bogenschneider, with help of Lisa Graf, ready items fo...
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Bogenschneider Auction

Date: 02 11 1978
Description: "The Bogenschneider auction in full swing at the hall in Firemen's Park."
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Sledding on Brewery Hill

Date: 02 19 1978
Description: "Sledding on the Brewery Hill. (Top to bottom) Julie Wiedmeyer, 10, Tammy Konrath, 9, and Vicky Konrath, 7."
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Sledding on Brewery Hill

Date: 02 19 1978
Description: "Having fun on the Brewery Hill. Vicky Konrath and Julie Wiedmeyer."
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School Bus Driver

Date: 02 24 1978
Description: "School bus driver Aaron Henning waits patiently for his passengers."
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Children Boarding School Bus

Date: 02 24 1978
Description: "School children boarding bus #14 after school."
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Beck Motor Sales

Date: 02 1978
Description: "Beck Motor Sales. This fine 1917 Dodge Roadster is on display in the showroom. Reuben Beck (with phone) and his brother, Gerald, (center) are the propriet...
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Gordon Loehrke's Auto Repair

Date: 02 09 1978
Description: "Gordon Loehrke's Auto Repair."
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Valentine's Day

Date: 02 12 1978
Description: "With the approach of Valentine's Day, the camera looks through the decorated windows of the Bob Bernhard home. Brenda watches her brother, Scott, playing ...
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Rural Mail Carrier

Date: 02 03 1978
Description: Winter scene with mail carrier in car putting mail in a mailbox. "Ralph Koll, Rural Mail Carrier. Somewhere in this monstrous snow drift is Helen Moldenha...
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Funeral Service at Zion Lutheran Church

Date: 02 16 1978
Description: "Carrying the casket from Zion, the small country church."

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