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Sunday in a Lumber Camp Bunkhouse

Date: 1900
Description: Sunday morning in a lumber camp bunk house.
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Kitchen Interior

Date: 1910
Description: Woman baking in a large kitchen with lean-to pantry and a wood-burning stove. The sconces or reflectors on the kerosene lamps intensified the light.
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Brillion News Print Shop

Date: 1901
Description: Interior view of the Brillion News Print Shop, where a printer and his assistants, two women, are posing around a press and work tables.
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Chris Copus Family

Date: 10 29 1934
Description: Portrait of seven of the twelve members of the Chris Copus family standing beside a pot belly stove in their makeshift garage home on Roth Street. They wer...
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Peterson Family at Home

Date: 1915
Description: Mr. Peterson is sitting in a rocking chair reading the newspaper and smoking a pipe, while Mrs. Peterson is standing at the stove with their young son, Jam...
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Robert Neal Baking Cornish Pasty

Date: 1942
Description: Robert Neal baking Cornish pasty at Pendarvis.
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Cotton Presentation

Date: 1915
Description: View from back of classroom of Dr. W.B. Hinds pointing at a graph as he delivers an agricultural lecture on cotton to students seated at North Alabama Bapt...
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Woman Using Pressure Kettle

Date: 06 1923
Description: Miss Larson using a pressure kettle to cook on a wood-burning stove in a farmhouse kitchen.
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Man Loading Wood into a Woodburning Stove

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Description: A man with an armful of wood gets ready to feed a woodburning stove inside a shed. A pile of cut wood sits behind the man.
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Come for the Haircut, Stay for the Banjo

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Description: Rube Guyett and George Mandle with banjos in the Guyett Barber Shop.
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Madison Art Guild

Date: 01 07 1957
Description: Erdine Stamm is shown rosemalling a wooden plate at the Madison Art Guild workshop in the recreation room of the Brobst home, 211 Lathrop Street.
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Man at Bar Pool Table

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Description: Man standing with his hand on a pool table in the center of a bar with a high ceiling. The bartender leans against the bar on the right. The room is decora...
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Men Behind a Stove and Tables

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Description: Five men are standing in a row behind a stove and long tables. Interior of what may be a lumber camp cook shack.
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The School at Work

Date: 1932
Description: Teacher Marjorie Carey stands behind her pupils sitting at their desks at the Mud Branch School, District No. 2, as they pose for their photograph. There i...
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The School at Work

Date: 1933
Description: Glady Hofseth, the teacher at Eagle Corners School, sits with a small group of students at the front of the classroom while the other students work at thei...
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Madison Bike Shop

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Description: View of interior of a Madison bike shop. Small & Stevens Bike Shop on State Street. The person sitting in the foreground on the left is believed to be Hubb...
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Library at Lind's Shop

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Description: Interior view one of of Hillsboro's early libraries. The library was located in the back of Addie Lind's millinery shop where it connected to an adjoining ...
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020 - Another Interior of "Living Cabin" IV

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Description: Interior view of one of the "living cabins" with several campers relaxing on bunk beds. Original caption notes: "Note spaciousness, comfortable bunks, ampl...
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073 - Cast of Paul Bunyan Pageant

Date: 1941
Description: Group portrait of the cast of the Paul Bunyan pageant. All of the campers are in costume, and are arranged in a semi-circle around some of the implements u...
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Man and Infant

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Description: Portrait of a man posing sitting and holding an infant next to a woodstove. Next to the stove is a large portrait of a man on an easel.

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