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| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holt Lumber Company sawmill, built in 1840. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Oconto River, looking north. Caption reads: "Scene on Oconto River, Looking North, Oconto, Wis." |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | View across water toward the sawmill and various outbuildings located on the Oconto River. Steam is rising from a large pipe over over the main building, a... |
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| Description: | View of the tree-lined shore of Kelly Lake. Caption reads: "Underwood Point, Kelly Lake, Wis." |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View of two lakeside cottage, which have docks and porches that overlook the lake. Caption reads: "Birch Walk, Kelly Lake, Wis." |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Large piles of logs waiting to be processed into lumber sit next to the Oconto River. In the background stand what appear to be piles of cut lumber. Captio... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of cottages along Kelly Lake's shoreline. Some of the buildings are two-story structures. Trees stand between the cottages and line the lake'... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View toward three cottages along the tree-lined shore of Kelly Lake at Underwood Point. Small docks with boats are along the shoreline. A wooden bench with... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | This map shows streets, railroads, and city wards. Streets, the Oconto River, and the Green Bay are labeled. The bottom of the map reads: "Compliments of O... |
| Date: | 07 21 1960 |
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| Description: | View from Oconto looking out into Green Bay Channel, which is often too shallow between the log pilings and lighthouse. Boats and docks are docked along th... |
| Date: | 12 17 1957 |
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| Description: | View across icy water towards shipping boats in harbor. Trees are along the right shoreline, houses and buildings are along the left shoreline. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | View of the pump and drinking trough for horses on a triangle of land at the junction of Chicago and Main Streets. The first Christian Science Church build... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | View of the sign which gives credit to the Oconto Women's Club for putting in the new drinking fountain for horses at the junction of Main and Chicago Stre... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | View of the new stone drinking fountain for horses at the junction of Chicago and Main Streets. Looking at the camera, two girls are standing to the right ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from the Oconto River of the Holt Lumber Company. A man is standing on a log boom and guiding logs to the sawmill. Writing on the postcard reads: "Hol... |
| Date: | 04 10 1922 |
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| Description: | Two women are walking through floodwaters from the Oconto River. A horse-drawn carriage with its wheels halfway underwater is in the background near the Oc... |
| Date: | 04 13 1922 |
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| Description: | The car is plowing through flood waters on Main Street. Commercial buildings and telephone poles are in the background. |
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