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Meat Market

Date: 1910
Description: A customer waits while butchers stand behind the counter of a butcher shop, surrounded by meat hanging from the ceiling.
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Road Crew

Date: 10 20 1948
Description: Construction workers along State Highway 59 putting crack filler into a tar kettle for heating.
Photograph

Man Washing Bottles at Pharmacy

Date: 
Description: Man washing and filling glass bottles at the Brenneche and Bergmann Pharmacy.
Photograph

The Brewery

Date: 1900
Description: A view of the back of the brewery, taken from a bridge. A man walks across the bridge, away from the camera.
Photograph

William Leonard

Date: 1932
Description: William Richard Leonard, the director of the Northey School board, poses next to an automobile. He is wearing bib overalls and a cap.
Photograph

Richard Northey

Date: 1932
Description: Richard Northey, 11, a student at the Northey School, poses on a pony. There is a barn in the background. On the reverse of the photograph is written "He h...
Historical Object

Fargo Children

Date: 1900
Description: An album page with four mounted photographs is decorated with hand-painted pink flowers and foliage. In the photograph at top right, Louise Mears (Mrs. Fra...
Photograph

Stuart and Frank at Work

Date: 1906
Description: Stuart, left, and Frank Fargo, both dressed in bib overalls, posing in front of the open door of a carriage house. Stuart is wearing a broad brimmed hat. T...
Photograph

Disking

Date: 1917
Description: Stuart Fargo sitting on a disk pulled by a team of four horses on the F.B. Fargo farm.
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The Fargo Boys at the Farm

Date: 07 1916
Description: Frank Fargo Jr. is resting his elbow on his older brother Stuart's shoulder as they are posing standing in front of a large tent. Both are wearing bib over...
Photograph

Stocking Bass

Date: 1936
Description: View from pier towards a truck with dual rear wheels parked with the open bed facing the shore of Lake Koshkonong. Two men wearing waders are dumping a bas...
Photograph

Engine Room, Watertown

Date: 1911
Description: Two men are standing on either side of an engine in a room. Displays with dials are on the wall behind them. A small, round table with a teapot on it is in...
Postcard

Ice House

Date: 06 24 1914
Description: Handwriting on front reads: "Front View of Ice House." A group of men and women view the destruction as the result of a tornado that swept through the nort...

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