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| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the Peshtigo Fire, showing people seeking refuge in the Peshtigo River. |
| Date: | 02 22 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers using a steam shovel to dig a "borrow pit" for the no. 2 mine. The shovel is loading soil onto a rail car on a narrow gauge railroad track. Benham ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from shoreline towards the opposite shoreline towards the Buettner mill on the left, and the river with a dam, on the right. In the backgroun... |
| Date: | 06 1862 |
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| Description: | The 7th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment camp outside of Fredericksburg on the east side of the Rappahannock. Fredericksburg and a pontoon bridge lea... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a river full of ice chunks. Caption reads: "The ice going out in front of Fairbanks, Alaska." |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking northwest from Division Street and East Water Street. Rooftop of building in foreground has laundry hanging from a line. In the back... |
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| Description: | A river has overflown its banks and is flooding a road on a bridge. Some men are on the bridge are using sticks to move ice floes. Crowds of people are wa... |
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| Description: | Ice chunks floating on the water near houses. People are standing watching nearby. |
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| Description: | Large ice floes are floating down the river near houses on the shore. |
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| Description: | Blocks of snow and ice are piled up in a river at a bridge. A large group of people are standing on the bridge in the background. A person on the left has ... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of bay shoreline, with dwellings along the bank. A few boats are in the river. In the background is a factory with a smokestack and railroad ... |
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| Description: | The Root River swollen with rainwater and/or snow melt. A recently built duplex housing unit is visible in the background. This picture was likely taken as... |
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| Description: | The Root River, swollen with rainwater and/or snow melt, runs under a bridge on which a man is walking. Recently built houses are visible in the misty back... |
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| Description: | A Ho-Chunk woman is walking across the Black River Bridge wearing a long shawl over her shoulders and carrying a bundle. Identified as Mrs. George Funmaker... |
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| Description: | Shore-side view of the stone Conococheaque Creek Bridge with a house in the background. |
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| Description: | View of several steamboats docked. Boats in the foreground are the "Lavelle Young" and "Isabelle" (text "Isabelle" partially obscured). Boat in the backgro... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of the Richmond and Dresden ferry in the Kennebec River, about to land. A man and a horse with cart are on the ferry. Several canoes and a sailboat is... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of men unloading lumber off a raft. A man at the left loads lumber onto a horse-drawn wagon while a man in an apron holds the horses. There is ... |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Bloomington. In the open space, there are trees and a creek. In the developed area, there are stores, apartments, and barns. The buildin... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across what is probably a frozen river covered with snow towards a village surrounded by a fence north of the Pinega settlement in northern Russia. |
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