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People by House with False Storefront

Date: 1872
Description: People standing in front of a house with a false storefront. A man is standing on the porch by a hand-pump. There is a woodpile in the yard behind a woman ...
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Aerial View of Town and Mississippi River

Date: 1900
Description: Aerial view of town. The Mississippi River and far shoreline is in the background. The Furnace Branch creek runs through the town in the foreground.
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Marjorie Quinney's Checkered Coat

Date: 1910
Description: Marjorie Quinney, Richard Quinney's aunt, wearing a stole and a checkered coat, standing behind a Model-T Ford on the family farm with sheds in background.
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Woman Chopping Wood

Date: 10 04 1923
Description: A woman wearing a dress using an axe to split a log into firewood. A hand-operated washing machine is standing in the yard of a farmhouse in the background...
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Cheese Factory

Date: 1922
Description: Exterior of a two-story cheese factory. The building features a set of stairs leading to the second-floor entrance and three chimneys. There is a large pil...
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Street Scene

Date: 1916
Description: View down middle of dirt road. There are dwellings on either side behind rows of trees. A hill is in the far background.
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High School

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Description: Exterior of the high school. The building features a bell tower, tall chimney, arched doorway and Dutch/Flemish gable. On the surrounding lawn, there is a ...
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Gathering on Back Porch of Farm

Date: 1922
Description: The back porch and the nearby wood pile, on the John Esch farm. There are two men, two women and a dog on the porch.
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Fillmore Street

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Description: Snow-covered backyards in town with stacks of logs, probably Fillmore Street between First and Second Streets. The brick building in the background is prob...
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Farm Yard with Windmill

Date: 1900
Description: Three people stand in the farm yard. The man on the right is feeding chickens, a woman in the center stands holding an apron. The man on the left is carryi...
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Farm Buildings and Frame House

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Description: View across grass towards a board frame house, farm buildings, hanging laundry, and a large wood pile.
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Man and Woman with Horse-Drawn Buggy in front of House

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Description: Man and woman posing in front of a fence. They are standing near a wagon pulled by a team of two horses. In the background is a two-story frame house with ...
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Family in front of Frame House

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Description: View across grassy field towards a group of people posing in front of two-story frame house with a porch. Three women, and a man holding a young child. are...
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Building, Taylor Alley

Date: 1966
Description: A building, possibly an outhouse, with a woodpile behind it. In the background, two houses with porches are visible. "No roads or streetlights or sidewalks...
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Port Wing Consolidated School

Date: 1931
Description: Children play on swings in front of the imposing Port Wing Consolidated School. It is two stories tall, with wood frame construction, a tall sandstone foun...
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Wood Pile

Date: 1932
Description: A conical stack of stovewood owned by Delbert Karns of 9th Street, Menomonie stands beside a house. It contained 55 cords of wood.
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Bird's-Eye View

Date: 1922
Description: Elevated view taken from the roof of a building. Yards and dwellings in the foreground, with a church and school in the background. There are three or four...
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Emil Boeing Barn

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Description: Exterior three-quarter view of white barn. There are milk cans on the left side of the building. The front and side of the barn has small extension rooms w...
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Pupils of Rhine Center School

Date: 1931
Description: The students of the Rhine Center School, District No. 6, pose for their photograph in the schoolyard. The girls are wearing good dresses; the boys wear kni...
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Group of People Next to House

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Description: Two women, two boys, two girls, and a small girl are posing standing at the corner of a frame house. A woman is standing next to a column of the porch, and...

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