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Driving Hogs Through Town

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Description: Bill Payne driving a herd of large hogs through town on Main Street, possibly on the way to Adam Best's Butcher's Shop. Storefronts identified, from left t...
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Rozmenoski Brothers Meat Market

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Description: View from street of the Rozmenoski Brothers Meat Market, on a side street of town, in the Adam Best Building, built in 1914. A man stands inside behind the...
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Merchants Hotel

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Description: View from street of two men posed sitting in a wagon full of grain bags and pulled by a team of four horses in front of the Merchants Hotel. L.S.Y. June, t...
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Group of Men and Boys in front of Tavern

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Description: Group of men and boys posed standing in front of a wooden building, probably a tavern. The photographer's wagon is in the background.
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Blacksmith and Wagon Shop

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Description: View across street towards six men posing, with four of the men wearing aprons and work clothes, and two men in suits holding guns. Beside them on the left...
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People Posing in front of Wooden Building

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Description: Group portrait of five men, and a woman holding a baby, standing in front of a large, two-story wooden building, possibly a farm implement or feed store. A...
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Painters in Workshop

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Description: Painters posed standing in a workshop near a wagon frame. The man on the left has a pipe in his mouth.
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Halcyon Brick Yard

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Description: Halcyon Brick Yard, men and a young boy are posed standing in front of and inside a wooden building with machinery.
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Werner Opera House

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Description: Two men on a scaffold inside the Werner Opera House. Advertisements for local merchants are on the stage curtain, and there is an upright piano in the fore...
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Thompson Foundry and Machine Shop

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Description: Large group of men posing standing by and sitting on farm machinery, including a thresher and steam tractors. Probably at the Thompson Foundry and Machine ...
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Jackson County Bank

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Description: View from street towards a man posing sitting high up on a ladder set up on the sidewalk in front of the Jackson County Bank on the southwest corner of Mai...
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Threshing Crew

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Description: View of a threshing crew with their steam-powered tractor posing in front of a barn.

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