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Champion Chemical Company Postcard

Date: 09 1910
Description: Exhibit of the Champion Chemical Company promoting their embalming fluids. Also presented in the exhibit are caskets and clothing to dress the dead.
Photograph

Hoenig Brothers Store

Date: 1900
Description: Hoenig Brothers & Co. two-story hardware and undertaking storefront. A man stands to the left of the building.
Photograph

Intersection of Main and First Streets

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Description: Man on a ladder painting around a window of the Jackson County Bank. Arch over the intersection partially visible on the right side, as are several people ...
Photograph

Utley & Co. Undertakers' Truck

Date: 1917
Description: Men standing near an International truck used by the Utley & Co., a furniture and undertaking company. The Utley & Co. storefront is in the background. The...
Photograph

Looking South from Marcus Corner

Date: 1923
Description: View down retail street. The shops include a clothing store, Barig and Son Undertakers, a hotel, and drugstore. Cars are parked in the middle of the street...
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Scene on Highway 11

Date: 1929
Description: View down a commercial street, with an automobile coming down the street. There is a soda/ice cream shop which offers tobacco, cigars, and candy. The City ...
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W.J. Burnham Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of W.J. Burnham of Chetek, Wisconsin, dealer in "Furniture, Undertaking Goods, School Supplies, Stationery, Confectionery, etc.," with an illust...
Postcard

Oak Street

Date: 1909
Description: Photographic postcard view from street in the central business district. The street is lined with businesses, and a few have awnings over their storefronts...
Postcard

Flood Scene

Date: 1911
Description: Photographic postcard view of a street scene. Groups of people are gathered along the sidewalks near storefronts. A building on the left has a painted sign...
Photograph

Undertaker

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Description: Undertaker's funeral parlor and other buildings along a dirt street with a sidewalk. An oblong sign attached to the balcony hangs over the sidewalk and rea...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Hearses in a Funeral Procession

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Description: View from across unpaved street of four men with horse-drawn hearses lined up in front of an undertaking building. The other storefronts are a stable on th...
Photograph

Two Men Standing Indoors

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Description: Two men are standing indoors, one man on the left and the other on the right. In the center is a vintage hand crank phonograph. A sign hanging on the back ...
Postcard

Mill Street, Looking North

Date: 06 23 1913
Description: Text on front reads: "Mill St., Weyauwega, Wis., Looking North." An unpaved street with horse drawn vehicles and pedestrians. Storefronts and sidewalks lin...

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