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| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Main Street, with its dirt, ruts, cows (and presumably manure), but wide enough for easy hitching of wagons and teams. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Aftermath of Peshtigo fire on October 8, 1871. Devastated landscape with deer carcass in foreground. The Peshtigo fire razed the small town of approximatel... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | View down tree-lined country road near Wausau, taken by Dr. Joseph Smith, talented amateur photographer. It depicts women (probably members of his family) ... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of contour strip farming with the Obert Olstad farm in foreground. The Carl Backum farm is in the background. |
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| Description: | View towards a man driving a Farmall Super A tractor pulling a plow in a field. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | A view of the village from a nearby bluff across a pond. Men, women and children, standing spaced apart, are posing in the field near the pond. |
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| Description: | Forest destroyed by destructive logging followed by a fire. The right-hand side of the image shows where soil erosion has begun. |
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| Description: | View down a metal bridge over the Kickapoo River showing a truck parked on the far side of the bridge. A man and a boy are standing at the rail of the brid... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Long view of bluffs with a fence and a farm in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | People in a cemetery. Includes a view of the Scofield family monument. |
| Date: | 08 24 1964 |
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| Description: | Shore scene at end of Main Road showing studio and small boats at low water. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Trempealeau County, south of Arcadia. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View of an Indian intaglio effigy, the only one still in existence in Wisconsin. The effigy is in the shape of a panther. There is a car on the road in the... |
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| Description: | Looking through the Port Hole at Coon Castle; farm buildings are in the far distance. |
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| Description: | Cows near Gates Ravine (Glen Eyrie). There is a bridge over a river in the background. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Scenic view of rural farmstead with horse-drawn McCormick grain binder and wagon in field in front of farmhouse. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a farmer harvesting grain on a hill or ridge with a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder near Pittsburgh. In the background is a va... |
| Date: | 05 31 1965 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Evangelical United Brethren church in the vicinity of Highway T. |
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