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Man Driving Advertising Cart on First Street

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Description: A "cart before the horse" rig advertising the "A.F. Werner, Bargains in Everything, Black River Falls, Wis.", with a man wearing a fake bushy beard and hol...
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Studio Portrait of a Dog

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Description: Studio portrait of an American Water Spaniel posing on a stump in the Van Schaick photography studio in front of a painted backdrop. There is a sign for "C...
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Portrait of a Dog

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Description: An American Water Spaniel, poses in the Van Schaick photography studio in front of a painted backdrop. There is a sign for "C.J. Van Schaick Photographer."...
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Sign Advertising "All Kinds of Bargains at the Fair"

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Description: A studio portrait of a sign which is advertising "All Kinds of Bargains at the Fair" and is surrounded by drawings of men and women. A painted backdrop can...
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A.F. Werner Store Advertisement

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Description: Woman posing outdoors standing next to an advertisement for the A.F. Werner Store, which is attached to a sleigh on a snow-covered street. The large poster...
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A.F. Werner Store Advertisment

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Description: Small girl posed outdoors on a fur rug in front of an advertisement for the A.F. Werner Store. The poster is attached to a sleigh on a snow-covered street,...
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Werner Opera House

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Description: Two men on a scaffold inside the Werner Opera House. Advertisements for local merchants are on the stage curtain, and there is an upright piano in the fore...
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General Store; Interior

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Description: Interior portrait of a young European American man posing standing in a general store. He is wearing a dark-colored suit coat and hat, and is standing at t...
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Draft Horses at the Freeman Hotel Barn

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a two European American men, both displaying single draft horses, with the horse on the right hitched to a wagon. They are posing in fr...
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Studio Work, Advertisement: Cole's Carbolisalve

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Description: Copy photograph of advertisement for "Cole's Veterinary Carbolisalve".
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Street Scene

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Description: View across unpaved road towards a Native American woman, wrapped in a plaid shawl, walking in front of a horse hitched to a wagon. On the left across the ...
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Woman Walking on Main Street

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Description: View down board sidewalk towards a woman wearing a light-colored blouse and dark-colored skirt walking on the left along an unpaved city street. Location i...
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Publicity Day Parade; Porter Drug Store Float

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Description: View across unpaved street towards a man standing in a parade float marked for "The Porter Drug Store" pulled by a team of two horses. Identified as a floa...
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Sponsored Float

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Description: View across unpaved street towards a wagon pulled by a team of six horses advertising "The People's Drugstore" under a banner that reads "Wall Paper and Pa...
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Men Posing at Lumber Yard

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Description: View across field of scrub grass towards a group of men, some in work clothes and other men wearing suits, standing in a lumberyard at a logging camp. Ther...

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