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NEW FROM THE VINTAGRAPH VAULTS • 1955 CHRYSLER CONVERTIBLE
One Room Schoolhouse
Submitted by kevhum on Sun, 05/13/2007 - 2:01am.
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Pepperwood School in Pepperwood, Humboldt County, California. Pre turn of century? Photo by Freeman Art Co.
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Humboldt Bay
Submitted by kevhum on Sun, 05/13/2007 - 1:52am.
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The Alta ferry on Humboldt Bay in California ran between Arcata and Eureka and was owned by the railroad. Taken around turn of century. Photographer unknown.
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Logging: 1904
Submitted by kevhum on Sun, 05/13/2007 - 1:24am.
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Logging
Submitted by kevhum on Sun, 05/13/2007 - 12:34am.
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Minor mill on Warren Creek by Arcata, California. Mack is the engineer, taken mid 1880s. Photographer unknown
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Howard Gunn Butcher, 1912
Submitted by joemanning on Sat, 05/12/2007 - 11:24am.
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Howard Gunn Butcher was my paternal great-grandfather. On his knee is my father, Joseph H. Manning (right), and Helen DeWiggins (left), my father's first cousin. The photo was taken in Kansas. Mr. Butcher was born in Indiana in 1855, and died in Iowa in 1915.
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