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Pillar Rock, Fort Danger

Date: 07 1873
Description: Adams and Juneau Counties. Pillar Rock, Fort Danger. There is a man with an 8 x 10 camera in the foreground.
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Old Quarry Road at Frontenac

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Description: Upper Mississippi, view through trees down the old quarry road at Frontenac. Lake in background.
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Ink Stand and Sugar Bowl

Date: 10 1889
Description: South side of Ink Stand and Sugar Bowl. Hattie and John Bennett in the boat; Nellie Bennett seated beneath the tree.
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St. Paul Flax Twine Mill Building

Date: 1910
Description: St. Paul Flax and Twine Mill. The factory was owned and operated by the International Flax Twine Company (originally Minnie Harvester Company), a subsidiar...
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Flute Ceremony

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Description: Ho-Chunk flute ceremony or prayer for rain. Four Ho-Chunk kneel in a square. A flute player and a man with a rattle stand behind on a low, round stone wall...
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Waterfall at Phantom Chamber

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Description: View down towards waterfall in Phantom Chamber at Witches' Gulch.
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Blackhawk Island

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Description: Looking upstream towards Blackhawk Island from opposite Ravine Bridge. There is a rowboat at the rocky shoreline.
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Cold Water Canyon

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Description: Depths of Cold Water Canyon.
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Hawk's Bill

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Description: Slightly elevated view over water towards Hawk's Beak.
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Steam Train Speeds Over Trestle

Date: 1910
Description: The railroad trestle over the Red Cedar River with a steam train passing over.
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Cleopatra's Needle

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Description: Devil's Lake Vicinity, Cleopatra's Needle. A man is standing on top of the needle.
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Opposite Steamboat Rock

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Description: Two men near shoreline in a canoe opposite Steamboat Rock.
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Cows Near Gates Ravine

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Description: Cows near Gates Ravine (Glen Eyrie). There is a bridge over a river in the background.
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Workers Hauling Sisal Leaves

Date: 1910
Description: Workers hauling sisal leaves with rail carts and burros to a decortication mill in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. The mill was likely part of Internation...
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Drying Sisal Fibre in Yucatan

Date: 1910
Description: Workers drying sisal fibre (fiber) in long rows in Yucatan, Mexico. The fibre was used by International Harvester for binder twine production.
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Workers Hanging Sisal in Yucatan(?)

Date: 1948
Description: Workers, mostly female, hanging bundles of sisal on wires on a plantation in the Yucatan(?). The plantation was likely run by the International Harvester C...
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Processing Sisal in the Philippines

Date: 1948
Description: Workers processing bundles of sisal in large piles at an International Harvester facility in the Philippines.
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Angel Rock

Date: 1900
Description: View along rockface shoreline towards a woman and two children sitting on Angel Rock. Along a cliff along the opposite shoreline are buildings and a bridge...
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Ink Stand and Sugar Bowl

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Description: View along sandy shoreline towards Ink Stand and Sugar Bowl, south side.
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Devil's Post Office

Date: 1903
Description: Devil's Post Office, Mirror Lake. Miriam Bennett is inside of the Devil's Post Office looking out.

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