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Downtown Cumberland and Beaver Dam Lake

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of Cumberland with Beaver Dam Lake in the background. In the foreground is a street, and across the street is a church, a water tower and dwe...
Photograph

The Cumberland Hotel

Date: 1940
Description: Exterior view of The Cumberland Hotel. The hotel opened in March of 1891 and was demolished in 1965.
Photograph

Walter Lofblad and His Carvings

Date: 08 12 1960
Description: Walter Lofblad, a Cumberland farmer, with miniature Milwaukee Braves figures he carved from basswood. The carved set includes the entire starting lineup, m...
Postcard

Greetings From Cumberland, Wisconsin

Date: 1950
Description: Aerial view of the Island City surrounded by the waters of Beaver Dam Lake, and by a vacation and recreation area that includes some fifty lakes within a r...
Postcard

Greetings from Cumberland, Wis.

Date: 1920
Description: Photographic collage postcard of scenes of Cumberland. The lettering in the center reads: "Greetings from Cumberland, Wis." Individual scenes are: High Sch...
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Cumberland, Wisconsin, "The Island City"

Date: 1955
Description: View down street of commercial buildings. Text on back reads: "A friendly city of prosperous, industrious people in a farming and vacationers' paradise. 'T...
Postcard

Methodist Church, Cumberland, Wis.

Date: 1910
Description: Oval-framed view from unpaved street towards the Methodist Church, shown in an oval frame in the center of a white postcard. There are two houses in the ba...
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First Lutheran Church

Date: 1963
Description: First Lutheran Church, Elm and 8th Avenue. Text on back reads: "Congregation organized 1882. Church was dedicated April 21st, 1963. Affiliated with the Ame...
Postcard

Hotel Cumberland, Cumberland, Wis.

Date: 1910
Description: View from street of the ornate three-story Hotel Cumberland. Caption reads: "Hotel Cumberland, Cumberland, Wis."
Postcard

St. Mary's Church

Date: 1950
Description: View from street of St. Mary's Catholic Church, located three blocks north of the business district.
Postcard

St. Anthony Abbot Church

Date: 1950
Description: View from street of the brick church building. Printed on back: "St. Anthony Abbot Church, Cumberland, Wisconsin, Located South Edge of Town, Masses 7:30 A...
Photograph

Occupational Therapy, Barron County Nursing Home

Date: 12 20 1963
Description: Four residents of the Barron County Nursing Home in Cumberland are making crafts around a table. A caption on the photograph reads: "This group in occupati...
Photograph

Collecting Fish Spawn

Date: 04 24 1932
Description: The caption on the reverse of the print reads, "Edward Zitman, Birchwood, and Peter Olson, Madison, obtaining golden wall-eyed pike spawn from Beaver Dam L...
Photograph

Cheese Making

Date: 1967
Description: A man is filling hoops with cheese curd and another man is placing the cloths in the hoops at the Stella Cheese Factory.
Property Record

1345 2ND AVE

Community: Cumberland
County: Barron
Historic Name: ZIM ZIM THEATER
Reference Number: 144785
Property Record

1575 2ND AVE

Community: Cumberland
County: Barron
Historic Name: St. Mary's Rectory
Reference Number: 17071
Property Record

1190 FOSTER ST

Community: Cumberland
County: Barron
Historic Name: UECKE'S OPERA HOUSE
Reference Number: 2083
Property Record

2276 10th St

Community: Cumberland
County: Barron
Historic Name: Section Ten School
Reference Number: 221914
Property Record

1120 11TH AVE

Community: Cumberland
County: Barron
Historic Name: First United Methodist Church
Reference Number: 242090
Property Record

1180 8TH AVE

Community: Cumberland
County: Barron
Historic Name: First Lutheran Church
Reference Number: 242091

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