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Turner House

Date: 1875
Description: Slightly elevated group portrait of men and women gathered around the Turner House, which was erected by John Turner to house railroad men and construction...
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Leiserson and Logging Locomotive

Date: 1914
Description: Taken on logging railroad, Lakeshore and Eastern Railroad, owned and operated by the Kneeland-McLurg Lumber company, Phillips, Wisconsin. Photograph is tak...
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Threshing Steam Tractor

Date: 1900
Description: Men and boys posing around a threshing steam tractor. Oliver Johnson is in the foreground. John Bergeson and Art(?) are on top of the stack. Henning Berges...
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Loading Cranberries

Date: 09 1934
Description: A crew of agricultural workers loads boxes of cranberries for transport to the drying sheds.
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Making a New Cranberry Bog

Date: 06 1938
Description: Construction of a leadgate to control the water flow in a new cranberry section at the Cranberry Lake Development Company in Price County.
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Cranberry Ditches

Date: 1935
Description: Digging flood ditches on a cranberry marsh near Phillips.
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Meili-Blumberg Model 10 Power Grader

Date: 1948
Description: Man grading a dirt road with a Meili-Blumberg Model 10 power grader attached to an International M tractor. Original caption states: "To maintain its 67 m...
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Cranberry Harvest

Date: 09 1934
Description: Cranberry harvesters using cranberry rakes make their way across a flooded cranberry bog. In the background crates of harvested cranberries are stacked wai...
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Flooded Cranberry Marsh Harvest

Date: 09 1934
Description: A large group of men working in a line with cranberry rakes to harvest cranberries in a flooded marsh. The men at work are all wearing waders. In the backg...
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Prentice Post Office Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Post Office in Prentice, Wisconsin, with a banner that reads "Post Office" in red letters, and an eagle perched on a shield with stars an...
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Farm of Chris Klein near Phillips, Price County

Date: 1895
Description: The front (top) and back (bottom) of a promotional card created to attract farmers to the agricultural land in northern Wisconsin. The card features an ima...
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Fields of Rye

Date: 07 1897
Description: A promotional card displaying a man in overalls standing by his large rye crops, near the road.

The caption reads, "This view made from a photograph take...

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Fourth of July at Park Falls

Date: 07 04 1994
Description: The flag raising during the Fourth of July ceremony, with a group of the local Knights of Columbus on the left. In the foreground on the right is a photogr...
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Cranberry Marsh

Date: 1938
Description: Dusting a cranberry marsh to combat blunt-nosed leaf-hoppers, Cranberry Lake Development Co.

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