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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of Ondossagon, a consolidated school. View across lawn towards a large group of people standing near horses in front of the building. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Pureair Sanatorium, a tuberculosis sanatorium. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Russian Orthodox Church. Caption reads: "Greek Catholic Church, Cornucopia, Wis." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Interior view of three-tiered altar, with gilded ornamentation surrounding it, two candlesticks, and several paintings on the walls. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across lawn towards the school building. Caption reads: "High School Building, Washburn, Wis." |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Getto family, seated left to right: Henry Getto, Harry Ketola, Maria Getto, Senia Getto Aho, Alma Getto, Ruth Howland, Pete Hovi, Oscar Getto, Herman Aho, ... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A man poses on the porch of a general store and filling station. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | This manuscript map of southern Bayfield County, Wisconsin, covers the towns of Cable and Drummond and portions of Grandview and Namekagon. Shown are the t... |
| Promotions on Paper, 1850s-1975 |
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| Custom-designed letterheads were a universal way of proclaiming who you were. Historical letterheads are prime examples of early branding. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A large open area completely filled with cut pine logs. There is a forest in the background. Caption reads: "Pine Logs, Drummond, Wis." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across snowy ground towards a steam-belching train engine on the right pulling flatbeds of stacked logs near a forest of tall pines. Caption reads: "L... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards train flatbeds stacked with large pine logs. There is a man standing further down the tracks looking towards the flatbe... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Lake Namakagon, showing the roads that connect Anderson Island (center left), and Juneks Point, Eagle Point, and Paines Island. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A man in a light-colored overcoat, possibly Joseph Wojta, standing behind a sheep being inspected by two other men. A group, including men, women and child... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Antoine Buffalo, Jr., posing in a field at the edge of a wood. She is a member of the Chippewa (Ojibwe) tribe, and a farmer. On the right are several ... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A school bus pulled by a team of horses named Colonel and Ned. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Mary Livingston Griggs is standing on the birch-lined boardwalk leading to the Forest Lodge boathouse. Mary is wearing a wool dress, coat and leather boots... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Mary Livingston Griggs and her daughter Mary are standing on a snowy birch-lined boardwalk on the shore of Lake Namakagon at Forest Lodge. Mother Mary is w... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Mary Livingston Griggs, her daughter Mary, and two unidentified women are preparing to board a train car. Young Mary is in the open train door, wearing a ... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Theodore Wright Griggs and his daughter Mary are standing on rocky ground with woods in the background. Mary is wearing a shirt, knickers, knee-socks and s... |
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