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| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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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| Description: | Volunteer fire fighters prepare to put out a fire on a roof. The fire company's hose cart is the vehicle with two large wheels which was attached to any av... |
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| Description: | Boy driving the City Delivery wagon pulled by a single horse and accompanied by a white dog. A man is standing next to the wagon. Storefronts include, from... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Winter scene looking toward Main Street from South First Street, with an arch over the intersection. A man is operating a road grader pulled by four horses... |
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| Description: | Boy posing standing next to a delivery wagon pulled by a single horse. Marked on side "Tel. 76" and a box of "Saxon Oats" in the wagon. |
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| Description: | Workmen erecting a telephone pole with a horse team. |
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| Description: | Two women in a buggy driving a team of two horses. The woman on the right is possibly Margie Sprester. |
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| Description: | Man in a top-buggy posing with a team of two horses in front of the Merchants Hotel. |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view over sidewalk towards eight horses drawing a circus wagon in parade. The parade is coming from the circus ground at the white pine g... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd watching elephants in a circus parade. In the foreground are power lines and telephone poles. |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view towards a horse-drawn water sprinkler on a wagon approaching an arch over the intersection during a parade. People are gathered on t... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View of crowd watching a parade. Elevated view taken from the Van Schaick studio; the same building housed the telephone exchange. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Grand Army of the Republic in Memorial Day Parade, in front of the Freeman House. Leading the ranks is probably James Livingston, Alvin "Bean" Hagen is pro... |
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| Description: | Parade of women and children on sidewalk through town. They are going past Peter Olson's blacksmith shop (foreground), fire-bell tower, and the City Hall w... |
| Date: | 05 1911 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view from street of Martin Lein/Lien's funeral procession, showing Main and Water Streets before the flood of 1911. The procession includes sever... |
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| Description: | Falls House, a little one-dollar-a-day hotel near the banks of the Black River at the corner of First and Fillmore Streets, built by Susan Gebhardt in 1886... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of man filling a street sprinkler or "water wagon" pulled by two horses near the intersection of First and Main Streets. |
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| Description: | Group of men and boys posed standing in front of a wooden building, probably a tavern. The photographer's wagon is in the background. |
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| Description: | View across unpaved street towards two men in a buggy drawn by a team of two horses in front of the Merchants Inn. |
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| Description: | View down unpaved First Street towards a man and woman posing sitting in a buggy, pulled by a single horse wearing a fly-net. Behind them is an arch over t... |
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