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| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across railroad tracks of the Wisconsin Central Railroad depot. Virtually the entire population of Sherry is thought to be standing on the pl... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking north towards Menomonie, the Knapp, Stout and Company lumber mills. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Munger's Mill and dam, with men standing on and around the dam. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the town as it appeared before the fire of 1894. |
| Date: | 02 1892 |
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| Description: | A team of four horses are pulling a sled loaded with a tall pile of logs in the snow. A group of four men stand near the sled. The ends of some of the logs... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men working on lumber rafts on the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | Two well-dressed men survey piles of debris left in the wake of a tornado. Part of the wall of a brick building is in the background. |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | A hooded woman sitting on the remnants of a house. As the amount of debris and barren landscape can attest, the area around her had been leveled by a torna... |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | A man works to clear debris in the aftermath of a tornado. Other men, women and children are gathered nearby. |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | Still smoldering fires and wreckage amidst debris left in the wake of a tornado. |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | A firetruck with its hose hanging into the water is surrounded by debris and other wreckage left from a tornado. |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | A woman and her young daughter stand in a yard examining a house in the aftermath of a tornado. The house has one entire side missing, a tree leans over on... |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | Side view of a group of people looking at the debris left by a tornado from a covered horse-drawn carriage. In the foreground the roof of a houselies on th... |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat stands among piles of rubble left in the wake of a tornado. A number of men are working in the large piles of debris, which includes lu... |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of people working with the relief effort in the aftermath of a tornado. Boxes of supplies are piled near a man in the foreground, and a man h... |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | Field of debris left in the wake of a tornado. A crowd of people are observing the destruction from a high vantage point. |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | In the foreground a small group of men and women stand surrounded by the debres from a tornado. Storm damaged houses and relief workers are visible in the ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View of the Peshtigo Company sawmill including the old wooden dam in the foreground. There are logs in the water on the left. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Two men stand at Hein's Lumber Camp atop a load of logs on a sled to which is hitched four horses, claimed to be the largest load of logs ever hauled by fo... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Several wagon loads of lumber stand in the yard of a planing mill. |
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