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Dean Family Sleighing

Date: 1852
Description: Quarter plate daguerreotype of Eliab Dean, an early Madison businessman, riding in a sleigh drawn by two horses with his wife Sarah Fairchild Dean and youn...
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Dashing through the Snow

Date: 1930
Description: Winter scene with sleigh carrying six well-bundled passengers pulled by two horses and pulling a skier behind in Eagle River. The trees are blurred.
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Sleigh Ride

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Description: A group enjoys a sleigh ride in Buck Hill Falls, a city founded in 1901.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed holding logging tools. Three men stand with six horses. The group is standing on the snow-covered ground in front of a log building. Two...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed holding logging tools. Three men stand with six horses. The group is standing on the snow-covered ground in front of a log building. Two...
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Group of People Posing in Sleigh

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Description: A man, sitting between two women,is holding the reins of a horse-drawn sleigh. The group is sitting on furs and have a blanket over their laps. In the back...
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Laplanders with their Reindeer Sled Teams

Date: 1918
Description: A family of Laplanders with their reindeer sled teams. In the background are a house with its outhouses, and a group of people to the left of center, as we...
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"Washday" on the Dvina River

Date: 1918
Description: A Russian woman wearing a head scarf is doing laundry while kneeling on the frozen Northern Dvina River, near Arkhangelsk, Russia. It appears she used a sm...
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Convoy

Date: 1918
Description: View down snowy street towards a group of people gathered outdoors. Horses with sleighs are parked in front of some of the buildings, which are of log cons...
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Couple in a Horse-Drawn "Cutter"

Date: 1906
Description: Winter scene with a man and woman driving in a horse-drawn "cutter" in the snow. They have a fur blanket over their laps. Behind them is a building, perhap...
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Jackson County Home

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Description: View across snowy ground towards a man posing sitting in a sleigh pulled by a single horse in front of a three-story brick building surrounded by snow. A w...
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Couple in a Sleigh

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Description: Outdoor view of a man and woman posing sitting in a sleigh pulled by a team of two horses on snow-covered ground. Two men are standing in the background be...
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Funeral Procession in Winter

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Description: Outdoor view from side of snowy street of a long line of sleighs and wagons moving through the town center. Location identified as Main Street, and a funer...
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Ella and Ida Scholz in a Horse-Drawn Sleigh

Date: 1913
Description: Ella and Ida Scholz sitting in a cutter (sleigh) in front of the Langholf home. The sleigh is being pulled by a horse.
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Snow Sleigh in Front of Half Timber Home

Date: 1913
Description: Ella and Ida Scholz sitting in a cutter (horse-drawn sleigh) in front of the Langholf half-timber home during winter.
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Woman in a Sleigh

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Description: Outdoor view of a woman posing sitting in a sleigh pulled by a horse on a snow-covered road.
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Three People on a Sleigh

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a man and two women posing sitting in a sleigh pulled by a single horse on snow-covered ground. Buildings are in the background.
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Sleigh Riders Pulling Skiers

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Description: Winter scene with six well-bundled passengers in a sleigh pulled by two horses and pulling two skiers behind. In the background are pine trees.
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Outdoor Group Portrait of Unidentified Women and Children

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Description: A group of four women and a group of children are standing in front of a building, perhaps a school. A man is sitting in a sleigh with two horses on the le...
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Sleigh and Team

Date: 1905
Description: An unidentified man, possibly Will von der Sump, and woman are posing sitting in a cutter drawn by a matched pair of white horses. The man is wearing a fur...

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