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Farmer Making Soap

Date: 1910
Description: The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T...
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Dining Room at Lumber Camp

Date: 1885
Description: Dining room, probably at D. Sullivan's lumber camp.
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Chippewa Group

Date: 1908
Description: A Chippewa (Ojibwa) group wearing traditional clothing photographed by A.J. Kingsbury, a photographer who produced many "documentary" postcards. This image...
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Group of Circus Musicians

Date: 
Description: Musicians with the Gollmar Brothers Circus pose in front of banners advertising the circus sideshow features near the entrance to the museum annex tent.
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Mrs. Ollie Jacobs and Pearl Jacobs Borusky

Date: 07 26 1941
Description: Mrs. Ollie Jacobs and her daughter Pearl Jacobs Borusky outdoors near a log building.
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Mrs. Ollie Jacobs

Date: 07 26 1941
Description: Mrs. Ollie Jacobs (b. 1862), sitting in wheelchair.
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Mrs. Ollie Jacobs

Date: 07 26 1941
Description: Mrs. Ollie Jacobs (b. 1862), sitting in a wheelchair.
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Indian Basket Sellers

Date: 1909
Description: Three Potawatomi women selling baskets posing by a tree. There is a building in the background. Caption reads: "Indian Basekt Sellers."
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Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory Field Camp

Date: 1932
Description: A man and a woman standing next to a tent in the Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory field camp.
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Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory Crew

Date: 1932
Description: Group portrait of a group of Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory workers. John Bordner is in the center of the top row. Stanta Bordner is beside him. Uppe...
Print

Bacon Ironing Board Co. Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Bacon Ironing Board Company of Antigo, Wisconsin, with an illustration of a woman wearing a long dress with billowy sleeves and a lace-trim...
Photograph

Pie Plants in Garden

Date: 07 30 1895
Description: A garden lush with tall pie plants (rhubarb) belonging to Mrs. H.H. Wooledge. One stalk is leaning against a wooden chair, and the leaf of the plant reachi...
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Women's Bicycle Race

Date: 1895
Description: Four women in dresses and hats riding bicycles on a race track at the Langlade County Fair Grounds. Bleachers at left are empty, but there is a man in a ca...
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Street View of Bryant

Date: 1909
Description: Street view showing houses, side yards and residents.
Postcard

Qua-bas-er-o-qua

Date: 1908
Description: Photographic postcard of Qua-bas-er-o-qua, an Ojibwa (Chippewa) woman. She is seated on the ground in a low woven chair, and is wearing traditional clothin...
Postcard

Junior Prom

Date: 04 15 1910
Description: Elevated view from stage towards a large group of young people in formal attire standing in a decorated gymnasium. People are also up in the balcony. Capti...
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Pickeral, [sic] Wis.

Date: 
Description: View of a building with a covered porch, and a sign on a tree that reads: "Boats to Let." A group of people are sitting on the porch. There is a body of wa...
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Gilmore's Mistake, Wolf River

Date: 1979
Description: Two canoeists navigate the rapids, called Gilmore's Mistake, on the Wolf River. Rocks and foliage can be seen on the shore.

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