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Dressing up the Dog

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Description: A girl sits in a rocking chair as a young woman commands a dog who is dressed in dark clothing to sit. A piano or organ is in the background.
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Women Playing a Reed Organ

Date: 1900
Description: A woman sits at a reed organ while another looks on.
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Dream Drum Dancers

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Description: Five Ho-Chunk performers in front of cloth barriers or tents. A powwow group from the 1908 Homecoming. The five are full brothers according to the 1881 tri...
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Debris after a Tornado

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Description: Group of men and women looking at the debris of a building, possibly a house, destroyed by a tornado. Wreckage of an automobile on the left.
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Group Posing in front of House

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Description: Four women, a man, and two girls posing in front of a two-story and one-story house.
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Group Posed Outdoors

Date: 1910
Description: Large group posing in front of a frame house.
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Man and Woman in Wagon

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Description: Man and woman in a horse and wagon in front of a building with two women seated on the stoop, probably the Spaulding home, the present location of the Dr. ...
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Ice Gorge

Date: 1876
Description: Town and business district, showing the early covered bridge across from the tail race of the powerhouse, with logs overflowing the river into yards, proba...
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Ice Gorge

Date: 1876
Description: Logs piled on the shore of town, possibly due to Ice Gorge of 1876.
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Bridge and House

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Description: Muddy road crossing a bridge to a place of business, the ____fman House.
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Snowy Road near Farmhose

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Description: Snowy and muddy road by several farmhouses and farm buildings.
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Residential Street om Black River Falls

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Description: Residential street, with a blacksmith's shop on the left hand side of the street.
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Cornfields

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Description: Cornfield and views of houses from a hill.
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W.R. O'Hearn House

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Description: The elaborately decorated house of W.R. O'Hearn.
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House with Wood Trim

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Description: House with elaborate wood trim, residence of L.C. Jones. Torn down in 1994.
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Man and Woman on Porch of House

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Description: Man, woman, and cat on the porch of a frame home, with board sidewalk in foreground. This is probably Mr. and Mrs. Bartell Giroux. He was a tinsmith.
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Two-Story Frame House

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Description: Two-story light-colored frame home with a broom leaning on the wall.
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Two-Story Frame House

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Description: Two-story light-colored frame house with two porches.
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Two-Story Frame House

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Description: Two-story frame house in town with two porches.
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Two-Story Clapboard House

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Description: Two-story clapboard house in town with a fenced yard and board sidewalk,

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