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S.W. Truesdell Home

Date: 1920
Description: The home of photographer S.W. Truesdell. A man is standing in the snow in front of the fence near a horse and sleigh.
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Dean Family Sleighing

Date: 1852
Description: Quarter plate daguerreotype of Eliab Dean, an early Madison businessman, riding in a sleigh drawn by two horses with his wife Sarah Fairchild Dean and youn...
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Men with Workhorses

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Description: Men with workhorses hitched to a sleigh, possibly a Spaulding Oscillating Sleigh.
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Tanana and Fairbanks Stage

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Description: Side view of a horse-drawn sleigh used as a mail and passenger stage between Tanana and Fairbanks.
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A.F. Werner Store Advertisment

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Description: Small girl posed outdoors on a fur rug in front of an advertisement for the A.F. Werner Store. The poster is attached to a sleigh on a snow-covered street,...
Postcard

Santa and Girl in Sleigh

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Description: Photographic postcard of Santa and a young girl, Mary Jane Turner, in his sleigh. Her head is next to his and her arm is around his shoulders. Reindeer can...
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Group of People Posing in Sleigh

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Description: A man, sitting between two women,is holding the reins of a horse-drawn sleigh. The group is sitting on furs and have a blanket over their laps. In the back...
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Teams of U.S. Army Engineer Corps

Date: 1918
Description: View down snowy hill towards a team of U.S. Army Engineers traveling the Russian countryside in horse-drawn sleighs for the purpose of constructing a map o...
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Horses and Sleighs

Date: 1918
Description: View across snow of a group of men standing around a collection of horses and sleighs that are in front of the quarters of Company G, from the 339th United...
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Officers Returning from the Front

Date: 1918
Description: Two officers wearing heavy winter clothes are seated in a horse-drawn wooden sleigh on a snowy path. Just behind them is a building that appears to be a Ru...
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Spaulding Sleigh Runners

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Description: Exterior view of the runners of a Spaulding sleigh behind the wagon shop.
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Two Sleighs on the Corner of South Second and Johnson Streets

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Description: View across street of a two horse-drawn sleighs on the street in front of a two-story wooden house, surrounded by snow. The house is identified as the resi...
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Winter Street Scene; United States Hotel

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Description: Outdoor view across snowy road towards a two-story wooden building surrounded by snow. In the middle foreground are two horse-drawn sleighs, the one in the...
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Street Scene

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Description: View down snowy street towards a horse pulling a man in a sleigh. There is a man walking down the sidewalk on the right. Location identified as the interse...
Postcard

William Fiebelkorn and his Wife Fredericke

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Description: Two horse-drawn sleighs are parked in the snow in front of a house. In the first one on the left, William Fiebelkorn Sr. and his wife Fredericke (Krause) s...
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Man on Horse-Drawn Sleigh

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Description: View towards a man posing sitting in a sleigh pulled by a team of two horses on a snow-covered street. There is a house in the background.
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Woman and Child Sitting in Front of a Poster

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a woman and girl sitting on a fur throw on the snow covered ground in front of a poster. The complete title on the poster is obscured, ...
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Family Posing in Sleigh

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Description: A man, woman, and child posing while seated in a horse-drawn sleigh on a snowy road. Behind them are buildings, a fence, and what may be ice harvesting equ...
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Winter Scene

Date: 1945
Description: View of a snow-covered field. Fence posts are visible. A person can be seen standing on a horse-drawn sleigh. Caption reads: "Winter Scene - Highway 54, We...

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