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| Description: | A barber is smiling for the camera, while the customer resting back in the chair in front of him is looking on with a sidelong look. |
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| Description: | A barber glances at the camera as he clips hair from a customer. The customer is reflected in a mirror in the background. |
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| Description: | A group of men are working on sawing logs into smaller pieces. In the foreground, an unidentified man is holding a large piece of tree trunk. |
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| Description: | Behind a barbed wire fence a man is splitting log rounds into barrel staves. The staves are stacked neatly to dry. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two young women and a girl stand in a pasture with a cow and a calf. One of the women is holding a pail; the other a sprig of flowers. |
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| Description: | Three generations of the Fiebelkorn family make sausage in the family farm kitchen. On the table is a sausage stuffing implement, a meat grinder, and a sau... |
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| Description: | A group of men are sawing logs using a horse sweep process. There are four teams of two horses each walking in a circle. |
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| Description: | Two people are using a winch and pulley system to move hay into the hay loft. The woman is wearing a long dress and a ruffled hat. The man is wearing overa... |
| Date: | 01 29 1914 |
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| Description: | An old ship anchor of wood and stone which was lost from the three-masted schooner Enterprise in the 50's, and recovered from Lake Winnebago. |
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| Description: | An illustration of a Norwegian girl in a traditional dress. She has a decorated wooden box under her left arm, and a wooden pail in her right hand. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Black and white photographic postcard view of workers picking cherries, some of them standing on ladders. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view of tourists picking cherries. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A group of men driving logs down the Brule. Caption reads: "Log Drive on Brule River, Near Florence, Wis." |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a cheese factory, with two men posing. Caption on back reads in part: "Cooking the milk in copper-lined vats." |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | A woodcut illustration of a whiskey still. The message on the reverse is addressed to Senator Gaylord Nelson. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from the Oconto River of the Holt Lumber Company. A man is standing on a log boom and guiding logs to the sawmill. Writing on the postcard reads: "Hol... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Interior view of Wingspread, featuring the central chimney. Text on the top on reverse reads: "The central chimney features five fireplaces." On the bottom... |
| Date: | 08 14 1922 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Capture of the Hodag, Rhinelander, Wis." A large group of men armed with guns, pitchforks and rakes hold a beast at bay on top of a l... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "'Returning from Work.' St. John's Institute for Deaf Mutes. St. Francis, Wis." A group of six women holding implements and a nun are ... |
| Date: | 09 05 1911 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "M.E. Church, Baraboo, Wis." A brick church with a corner entrance and belfry. A dwelling can be seen to the left and trees surround t... |
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