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Roughly including E. Division St. and S. Main St.

Community: Shawano
County: Shawano
Historic Name: Shawano Main Street Historic District
Reference Number: 99000440
National or State Registers Record

235 South Main St.

Community: Shawano
County: Shawano
Historic Name: Shawano Post Office
Reference Number: 00001241
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237 South Sawyer Street

Community: Shawano
County: Shawano
Historic Name: Lincoln School
Reference Number: 13000865
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Governor Julius P. Heil Campaigning to Teenagers

Date: 10 1942
Description: Governor Julius P. Heil (1876-1949) speaks to Shawano High School students and others during his gubernatorial re-election campaign. He arrived during the ...
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Shawano Airport

Date: 1951
Description: Shawano Municipal Airport and airport managers Jack and Dorothy Wussow. In 1954 the Wussows gave up cold weather flying to become managers of an airport i...
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Wisconsin & Northern Railroad Engine

Date: 
Description: Three men stand in the snow in front of the Wisconsin & Northern Railroad engine #2 (the second locomotive with this number) in the woods on the Menominee ...
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Wolf River Paper Company

Date: 10 1939
Description: Elevated view of the Wolf River Paper Company factory, including smokestacks and a water tower.
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Wolf River Paper

Date: 10 1939
Description: View from shoreline towards the opposite shoreline of the Wolf River Paper Company factory complex on the Wolf River.
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Highway Department Garage

Date: 1930
Description: Shawano County Highway Department garage.
Postcard

Reservation School

Date: 1935
Description: Menominee Indian Reservation Government School near Shawano. Caption reads: "Government School, Menominee Indian Reservation, Near Shawano, Wis."
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Main Street

Date: 1910
Description: View down center of unpaved street. A sign on the building on the left corner reads: "The Upham & Russell Co. Hardware and Metals". A barber's pole is on t...
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1912
Description: View down street, with a trolley coming up the left side. Pedestrians are on the sidewalks. Caption reads: "Main Street, Shawano, Wis."
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1910
Description: View down center of unpaved street. Caption reads: "Main St., Looking South, Shawano, Wis."
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Indian School

Date: 1890
Description: Indian School in Shawano.
Postcard

Shawano High School

Date: 1910
Description: View towards front of the school. Caption reads: "Shawano High School."
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Menominee Family

Date: 
Description: Studio portrait of the Menominee family of Kaw-hee-she-uh-quat in formal attire.
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Wolf River Dam

Date: 
Description: Wolf River Dam with ice and snow. Houses are in the background.
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Wolf River Paper and Fiber Company

Date: 
Description: Stacks of logs are in the foreground with a man in a hat near the river. There is a chimney billowing smoke near the factory.
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Herman Rafoth

Date: 1925
Description: Herman Rafoth, smoking a pipe, stands behind a two-story wooden house. Rafoth was the driver of a stage held up by Raymond Holzse on May 8, 1880. A woman...
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Raymond Holzse

Date: 1925
Description: A copy of a waist-up portrait of Raymond Holzse. Holzse was described as a "bandit of northern Wisconsin, who planned several stage holdups."

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