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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Man and woman posing sitting, each holding a child in their lap, and a young man, girl, and a boy holding a toy horn, are posing standing. The group is pos... |
| Date: | 04 1923 |
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| Description: | A bundled-up woman hand pumps water from a well into a pail. The ground is covered with ice and snow. Two cars and a farmhouse are in the background. |
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| Description: | Large log jam on the Chippewa River. In the distance a group of men stand atop the jammed logs. |
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| Description: | Log driving crew sitting down for lunch on the bank of a river (probably the Trap River or Rib River). There is a batteau at the water's edge, and one man ... |
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| Description: | View from hill looking down on a group of log cabins inhabited by "dam tenders" on the shore of the icebound Chippewa River. A logging dam in is in the rig... |
| Date: | 05 16 1908 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a two-floor school building with a covered front entrance underneath a bell tower. Snow is on the ground. Caption reads: "School B... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View up hill of two men standing at the entrance of the public school. There is a hand-pump near the entrance, and a bell tower on the roof of the school. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Two sled loads of logs each drawn by teams of two horses at Bruno Vinett's logging camp. Drivers sit atop the loads. The ground is covered with snow. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | A man stands atop a sled load of logs drawn by two horses at Hein's Logging Camp. Several other men stand atop large pile of logs behind him. Snow lies on ... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | A man sits atop a very high load of logs on a sled pulled by three horses. There is snow on the ground. Numbers are written on the cut ends of the logs. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Front view of a man holding the reins of two horses hitched to a sled loaded with logs on a snowy path in or near Vinette's logging camp. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Five men stand on or nearby a sled loaded with logs and pulled by two horses at the landing at Hein's logging camp. There is snow on the ground. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View across road of automobile parked next to gasoline pump outside of the Blue Moon Tavern on County Highway 24. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Numerous men stand on and around a large pile of logs and a sled stacked with logs pulled by four horses at the C & M Ry Company's camp. There is snow on t... |
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| Description: | A few dozen men stand on and around a sandy path surrounded by low shrubbery. They are wearing work clothes, and some of them are carrying bowls filled wit... |
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| Description: | The wreckage of buildings on the John Hedler farm after a tornado. An intact wooden barrel and part of a wooden fence stands in the center foreground. A la... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Soldiers of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement during the Cuban Revolution stand next to a pile of wreckage in a rural area holding guns. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Charles C. Allen Company Manufacturing Plant, founded in 1919. Several buildings are set amongst a rural setting. |
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