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| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Constructing the Madeline Island Historical Museum in La Pointe which consists of four separate buildings. L-to-r: jail; American Fur Trade storage buildin... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company showing the McCormick Reaper Works at night. The factory was in operation from 1873-1961. I... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of an International 65 payhauler dump truck in a quarry with shovel. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Diesel engine assembly line at Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Company until 1902. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Soldiers' Grove with a bridge in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International Harvester crawler tractors with a color illustration of a tractor working a construction site for new suburban homes. ... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Color advertising poster for International industrial power equipment showing a crawler tractor (TracTracTor) excavating the site of the World's Fair. Inc... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Worksheds filled with stacked logs and wagons at "Walden", the estate of Cyrus McCormick, Jr. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline over river towards the town. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Two lumbermen posing with a two-man crosscut saw they are using on a fallen tree trunk, cutting the pine into manageable sizes for hauling. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Ashland, on the shores of Lake Superior, with insets of The Apostle Islands Chequamagon Bay & Ashland, and Distances from Ashland. |
| Date: | 02 1892 |
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| Description: | Engraving of a fur trader standing in the middle of a circle of seated Indians in their council tepee. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View inside a lead mine showing six miners with a car on a track. |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Men loading rock from Saddle Mound quarry onto a St. Paul Railroad flat car. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Visitors, dressed in their Sunday best, contrast with the rough garb of the miners. Left to right, miners were: Charles Kanass, Robert "Beaver" Smith (hold... |
| Date: | 06 1981 |
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| Description: | Winnebago Enterprises trailer, advertising drive-up cigarette sales. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Locomotive No. 75. Class H. Built 1850 by Schnectady Locomotive Works. Men are posed on and around the locomotive. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Nine men arrive at Fort William by canoe. Fort William, also called Kaministiguia, was the Hudson's Bay fur trading post. Men are standing along the opposi... |
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| Description: | Forest destroyed by destructive logging followed by a fire. The right-hand side of the image shows where soil erosion has begun. |
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